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They say that: "There's always a smarter way!"... And so simple a procedure like downloading has not remained untouched by this "smarter way"... Go through the article to know how...

 
 
Download acceleration

Download acceleration, also known as multipart download, is a term for the method employed by software such as download managers to download a single file by splitting it in segments and using several simultaneous connections to download these segments from a single server.

The reason for doing so is to circumvent server side limitations of bandwidth per connection. Because in normal networking situations all individual connections are treated equally, rather than actual file transfers, multiple connections yields an advantage on saturated links over simple connections, both in terms of total bandwidth allocation and resilience. Many servers, however, implement a maximum number of simultaneous connections per client in order to mitigate this.

This is not to be confused with segmented downloading, which allows a client to download segments of a file simultaneously from multiple servers.

 
 
Download Accelerator Plus
 
Download Accelerator Plus (also referred to as DAP) is a closed source download manager for MAC OS X and Microsoft Windows. It uses multipart download to increase speeds, creating multiple connections of different file segments to speed up downloads - which is useful for defeating file-server download speed limiting. Download Accelerator Plus has 190 million installation worldwide.
 
 
Features
  • Scheduled downloading
  • Resuming broken downloads
  • Integration with anti-virus software
  • Integration into major browsers
  • Download completion message
  • Attempts to play video and audio media during download

Technology

DAP works by splitting files into smaller pieces and automatically seeking faster mirrors. It also can get a file simultaneously from several sites, which is useful if a particular site limits the download speed; it can resume downloads; and it can preview some media files while downloading. It speeds-up downloads by almost 200 percent in most cases and occasionally as high as 400 percent.
 
DAP offers file management capabilities by keeping track of all downloads and providing a history of what has been downloaded and when. DAP will additionally recover and resume a download which has been interrupted by a broken connection.
 
 
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Posted on 5/12/2010 5:16:39 AM
Posted by megha.saxena
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Comments

#1 Posted On:5/18/2010 1:40:15 AM
smarthero1234
thaxxxxxxxxxx
#2 Posted On:6/5/2010 3:24:58 AM
xem_007
Internet Download Manager is better.
#3 Posted On:6/5/2010 3:37:12 AM
megha.saxena
i use speedbit's dap
#4 Posted On:8/27/2010 12:46:05 AM
deepak_punjabi
when i download movies from torrents.com it only downloads from uTorrent...but it is quite slow
is there any way so that i can download torrent's movie via DAP..??
#5 Posted On:8/30/2010 3:30:48 PM
megha.saxena

well, full movies are downloaded viz torrents.. try out bittorrent if you wish to, otherwise there's no problem with utorrent.. and as far as DAP is concerned, it will help you download only the torrent for the movies (which is in the kbs size) rest the movie will be downloaded via the torrent itself..

so the bottom line is, either check your net connection or upgrade your torrent..
#6 Posted On:9/5/2010 1:29:56 PM
Akssss
nice.....
#7 Posted On:9/6/2010 9:31:43 AM
megha.saxena
thank you..
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