DAP sucks

A story from DAP lover

from WinCustomize Forums

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?
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I can only agree, i have been using dap for years but now i have got trouble and it does not work, i wrote to them but they did not replay to any of the emails i had. I think this sucks to be hounest because when i have bought it, it should work or else i would get my money back, but they only seem to be interested in people buying their software, not making it work well, i am using flashget now.
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
else i would get my money back







I agree.


I shall write a mail to the DAP support team describing the failurity of recognizing a file larger than 4 GB. Don't know whether they would respond or not.


DAP has a tendancy to make their product eye-catching and user friendly. They are giving much priority on speed like Intel, but not thinking of its overall performance.
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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I believe DAP is VERY accurate. Once I had added a file of 500MB in DAP ... and it downloaded 750 MB (almost 150%) and was still on it when I paused and deleted the job.
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I used DAP for years until I found out if you do a clean install too often It moans about the license having expired. Contacting support released the lock, but I soon got tired of doing that and switched to using Star Downloader.

At the moment I don't use anything, it doesn't seem to make much difference with or without a DM.

Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Haven't used it for a while now, 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 in one hit without problems on ADSL. I think it is still available at Topdownloads.com, but a google search would turn it up if not
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
if you do a clean install too often It moans about the license having expired


Had the same problems. I just switched to DOWLOAD EXPRESS. Now I won't use anything else. Besidse...it's FREE.
Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I just use Firefox's built-in one.
Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I've tried DAP, it looks pretty but its not that great, I've had problems where it doesnt recognize the end of a file and keeps downloading i-don't-know-what, even after the correct filesize has already been downloaded...

Since then, i've switched to flashget. Its worked fine for me and i know it supports full length dvd-9 size files, and its got all the functionality I need: up to 10 connections per file, resume broken downloads automatically, supports password protected downloads, and it has a scheduler, among other features. Theres a free version available, only difference between the free and shareware is that there is an ad banner on the free one (don't worry though, there is NO spyware with it, i double checked that when i first installed with both spybot and ad-aware).

give it a try if you're looking for a new download manager, the website is at www.amazesoft.com.
Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top
It moans about the license having expired


I have already experienced once.
Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I once downloaded a 4gb Linux OS in one hit without problems on ADSL. I think it is still available at Topdownloads.com


Thanks for the information. I shall try it.
Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top
give it a try if you're looking for a new download manager, the website is at www.amazesoft.com.


I have already tried FlashGet. It is also unable to recognize a file size larger than 4 GB.
Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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.
Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I take it DAP is somrthing for dial up? Good thing I have broadband.
Reply #14 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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.
Reply #15 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I have to agree with #13. Why would one need a download manager if one uses broadband?
Reply #16 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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.
Reply #17 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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.
Reply #18 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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.
Reply #19 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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.
Reply #20 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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?
Reply #21 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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.
Reply #22 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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.
Reply #23 from WinCustomize Forums Top
if you do a clean install too often It moans about the license having expired


Just like Windows XP
Reply #24 from WinCustomize Forums Top

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.
Reply #25 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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.