09-27-2002, 06:35 AM
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Re: Question About DAP
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12-06-2004, 01:48 PM
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DAP is great if your on dialup, but if your on broadband, then F**K DAP, and get Mozilla FireFox, it has all the features of dap built in, plus the benifits of a secure browser (unlike IE), plus it's not limited to just 3 downloads like IE.
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12-08-2004, 05:06 AM
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12-08-2004, 02:03 PM
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on broadband, your always online, your speeds are upto 20x that of dialup, and unless your downloading 2gb files thru a p2p client (in which case DaP aint gonna do dick anyway). Then using DAP on broadband is a waste of resources better left to being used else where. FireFox's download window, allows the pausing of your downloads, and if your not on dialup, speed isn't going to be an issue. 
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12-20-2004, 04:24 AM
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DAP is one of the worst download managers I've used. It has a crappy way of organizing downloads, bad interface, very poor browser integration, etc. Frankly the last time I used it was a few years ago so i may have seen some improvement but, for example, flashget was and is better in any aspect.
1) Saying that DAP is gread on dialup because it can resume downloads means basicly nothing. Any download manager can resume downloads, that's one of the main reasons programmers made them. 2) Whether on broadband or on dialup download managers are always welcome for their organizing features. (like I said DAP's organizing is crappy but that does not change different internet connections). Also downloads may get interrupted on both dialup and broadband for different reasons. 3) Quote:
Bottom line - please don't write obvious stuff 
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04-14-2005, 12:45 PM
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There is more to a download manager than just "pause/resume". Firefox's built-in downloader DOES support that (as long as you don't clear the download list out); IE does not (yet another thing it doesn't do natively that'd be so much "more enabling" (as they like to boast) for the user)... But niether of them can break a downloaded file into pieces and grab multiple pieces at once... that's where the "speed increase" is seen (and that's useful on any connection, particularly slower ones). For those that don't know how this works... say you're downloading a 1GB file (sorry modem users, that'd be weeks, eh?)... DAP (and others like it) handle this by taking the file and grabbing pieces (my Nitro is set to do 5 pieces of a file) and gets them all at once - so I'd be grabbing 5 200MB files each at whatever speed (we'll say 50KBps for easy math). Instead of 1 1GB file at 50KBps (roughly 6 hours of download time - if the speed is constant). However, by getting 5 files, EACH at 50kbps that same file is downloaded in a little over an hour... again, given constant speeds - this IS a rough approximation. The concept works over dial up too (but from my memory it wasn't as dramatic an increase as it is with broadband). And of course, system specs (you need good RAM to be able to do this well - too little and the thinking power will make you crawl in everything else processing) and the number one helper/hinderance... LINE QUALITY. Good lines are great, semi-ok to bad ones... kiss your speed goodbye. ^_^ |
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