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By Eddy R.
Original Review 6-12-00
Updated Review 9-02-00
Revised for new product version
Download Accelerator is a file
download manager that can greatly increase download speeds in FTP
and HTTP protocols up to 300 percent. Nicely integrated with Internet
Explorer 4.x/5.x and Netscape 4.x and above it has the following
key features.
Pause and Resume
This gives you the ability to recover from a lost Internet connection,
and several other errors that may occur during download. You can
also pause/cancel your download at anytime and come back to finish
downloading at a later time. This feature works only with serves
that support resumeable downloads.
Drag-and-Drop
Easily drag-and-drop links to the "Download Basket" window
to start a file download right away.
Download Details
Download details include a progress bar, transfer rate, directory
to which the download file is being downloaded, URL of file being
downloaded, time left (until download is complete), server Resume
status, connection status, server location and more.
Other features
Add a URL manually with the "Add URL" option, proxie
server support (HTTP and FTP), support for other browsers, auto-hang
up once download is complete, and more!
How it's done
Accelerating download speed is no magic. To accomplish its objective,
Download Accelerator downloads a file from single or multiple servers
simultaneously and also does mirror searches for download from best
performance servers.
After installing Download Accelerator, it will automatically launch
itself when you download the following file types: EXE, ZIP, MP3,
ARJ, RAR, LZH, Z, GZ, GZIP, TAR, BIN, MP3, AVI, MPG files.
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