DAP sucks

A story from DAP lover

Published on August 31, 2005 By Mithun Pal In Internet

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Hello everybody,

Before telling the story let me introduce myself. I am the person who is using DAP as the DM from the very first day I started net surfing – DAP is my first and only DM I have used. After that when DAP 7 released, writing 50 software reviews I got a free license of DAP Premium. I was totally satisfied with the performance and features of it.

Till the mid of July I was a dial-up user, but after that I opt for Broadband connection and got it. As from 16 th August, 2005 free hours were introduced by the Broadband service provider, I decided to download some DVDs – SuSe DVD, Knoppix DVD, Solaris 10 DVD, Debian Linux DVDs etc. Excepting Knoppix and Solaris all others were larger than 4 GB.

Now I added the url of each file to DAP download list, to my surprise I found DAP failed to report the proper file size for a file greater than 4 GB. A conclusion could be drawn from this incident that DAP does not support any download greater than 4 GB.

I started to search for a new DM and found one called Fresh Download having the capacity to recognize a file larger than 4 GB. The free s/w Fresh Download that was never in the competition among the DMs and that doesn't have the popularity as DAP has, found to be a much better DM than DAP.

Though Fresh Download is working good, but I need some features not present in it. Features like – a scheduler like DAP and if possible command prompt support. Can anybody suggest any alternative?

Comments (Page 2)

Mithun Pal

on Sep 01, 2005

What about Leechget? Will it recognize 4GB or more? just curious. being on rural dialup, I doubt I'll consider trying to dl something that size....well, maybe...if it's something really really cool.

Neither LeechGet nor FlashGet supports download size larger than 4GB.

Mithun Pal

on Sep 01, 2005

I use Getright and I've never had any problems with it; however, the largest file I've downloaded, a knoppix ISO image file, was about >700 mb.

Yes after your post I tried GetRight. It supports larger downloads above 4GB. Could be a good alternative.

Mithun Pal

on Sep 01, 2005

Why would one need a download manager if one uses broadband?

It is needed, if you have any experience of downloading DVDs on a professional basis, no need to describe the need of a DM.

Mithun Pal

on Sep 01, 2005

but FreedownloadManager has pause, resume and schedule capabilities, as far as I remember, and it recognises files well over 4mb. I once downloaded a 4gb Linux OS

Tried it. Yes it recognizes files larger than 4 GB. Nice DM.

Mithun Pal

on Sep 01, 2005

I just switched to DOWLOAD EXPRESS

Tried it. It also recognizes a file larger than 4 GB.

So many DM recognizes it. Then why not DAP or FG?

kona0197

on Sep 01, 2005

It is needed, if you have any experience of downloading DVDs on a professional basis, no need to describe the need of a DM.

I do download DVDs and have never had the need for a DM.

Mithun Pal

on Sep 02, 2005

I do download DVDs and have never had the need for a DM.

Is scheduling possible without a DM? Because, I don't download anything when I need my PC for my personal work. I prefer to schedule them and when I sleep at night, my PC wake up from stand-by mode and getting connected to the internet it starts download. After completion of download, disconnecting from internet PC turns off itself. So, hope now you understand what the need of a DM is.

gmoneykyo

on Sep 03, 2005

if you do a clean install too often It moans about the license having expired

Just like Windows XP

Mithun Pal

on Sep 09, 2005

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My mail to DAP:

From: Mithun Pal
Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 20:31
To: Support DownloadAccelerator
Subject: DAP does not support any download greater than 4 GB

Hello,
This is from a DAP Premium user and my problem is that I am unable to download properly any file larger than 4GB. Recently I tried to download some DVDs larger than 4GB with DAP Premium (main module 7.5.0.9). But, when I added the url of each file to DAP download list, to my surprise I found DAP failed to report the proper file size for a file larger than 4GB. A conclusion could be drawn from this incident that DAP does not support any download greater than 4 GB. For example, DAP reports the size of the following file -
ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/suse/i386/9.3/iso/SUSE-9.3-Eval-DVD.iso
as 184.43MB, instead of its actual size 4.18GB.
So, isn't it possible to add the feature of supporting the file size larger than 4GB?

Their reply:

Dear user,
Thank you for your contact.
Sorry, the maximum file size supported by DAP is 4 GB.

Best regards,
Download Accelerator Plus team.
http://www.downloadaccelerator.com
104 million users can't be wrong!

Conclusion:

Goodbye DAP.

Mithun Pal

on Sep 09, 2005

Neither LeechGet nor FlashGet supports download size larger than 4GB.

Sorry, FlashGet supports files larger than 4GB. They have introduced this feature from the version 1.65.

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