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is a download manager software that accelerate downloading files from the Internet. Key features of Download Accelerator is it’s ability to accelerate downloading files in FTP and HTTP protocols up to 300%, pause and resume downloads, recover from a dropped Internet connection, The acceleration is done by using more than one connection for the same file, for single or multiple servers. In Addition Download Accelerator Plus will also make a mirror search for downloading from best performance servers. Download Accelerator Plus has many other features.
The other features are:
It supports most of the file extensions.
It supports Resuming downloads from where it was stopped ( in case of internet connection being lost) if the server from where the download is taking place support resume.
It also has a feature called Alwaysresume that will allow you to resume broken downloads even from servers that does not allow you to do resuming.
It also has a drag and drop feature which allows you to drag the files to be downloaded into a download basket directly from your browser.
The Mirror searching features enables the Download Accelerator to search if the file you wanted to download is available on other servers with better performance.
All the above feature makes this download manager one among the best available today and it is a must have for people who download files regularly.
It did not work very well with proxy servers inspite of my trying to configure it according to the instructions provided on the site help.