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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