On (20 Nov 03) Rob McCart wrote to George Pope...
 RM> First - the ability of a Download 'accellerator' to actually
 RM> accellerate
 RM> is determined solely by bandwidth available. If you are only using
 RM> part of your bandwidth they will help some, but if you are using all
 RM> that is available to you then splitting the file into 4 pieces will
 RM> bring you 4 feeds at 1/4 the speed each. So it ends up no faster than
 RM> a single feed. Since the bottleneck in my download is actually my
 RM> Hookup speed, nothing will help much if the sending end is running at
 RM> my full hookup speed or better..

I thought the theory was that your computer is part of a "system" and as
with local systems, the internet will allocate resources based on demand
(ie. when your printer is doing a heavy job, the CPU will give more
ticks to it, and on the net, when one node is demanding more, it'll get
more, so at least you'll come closer to your modem's max (esp. on a wide
bandwidth connection); but the best is that when there are slowdowns
between you and the sending server, DAP will reroute your packets by
using different/faster servers to receive from. . .

 RM> I stopped using DAP a couple of years ago after rumours of
 RM> it being rampant spyware - if 'rumours' is the right word..
 RM> My Spyware checker freaked and insisted on uninstalling it..   B)

Maybe it is spyware, most freeware is these days! :(  But that might
just be the new (version 5.0) one, cuz I think 4.0 was all right (&
worked just fine!)

I tend to not upgrade unless there's something I *REALLY* need in the
new version AND there's already a reputation of reliability for the new
version. . . :)

You'd be surprised how often the new upgrade does nothing more than nag
you more for money(with shareware) or downgrade performance, as
incentive to get you to get their "professional" version! :|

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