Is Yazsoft Speed Download compatible with mac OS Sierra?

[Rod]

My wife downloads talking books from our public library in Australia via a server which is so slow ind inconsistant that she needs to use a download manager to overcome dropouts and such. Years ago I suggested Speed Download and although this has since been discontinued and no longer supported or available it continues to work perfectly on her 2011 MBP running El Capitan 10.11.6.
So the question is will it run on Sierra? My guess is it will but as I cant download a copy to try myself it's impossible to say for sure.

 

[ferrarr]

Try this download, http://www.yazsoft.com/products/speed-download/

 

[pm-r]

Yazsoft is out of the business. So says their web page.

They do however suggest an alternative Folx, which is also listed with some other comparison apps here:
https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/29767/folx

For Speed Download, "?" are shown for both Sierra and El Cap'n, so be the Guinea pig or "Mikey" I guess.





- Patrick
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[harryb2448]

I just love these 'free' downloads and then a price tag to use it of $19.95. They were hard to deal with Yazsoft. Every time a new operating system came out, from about Panther I would think, they demanded a new registration fee to access the later version and Speed Downloader was not that great. never saw any difference in speed when using it or just let it run at the computer's natural speed.

 

[pm-r]

I just love these 'free' downloads and then a price tag to use it of $19.95.

Yup, like most things these days, they all seem to lead to and come down to money!!

What I could never figure out about most if not all "get super speed download" type apps, especially for those that paid for them, is one's ISP usually restricts the download speed anyway and certainly not all servers can even keep up with some of those, even normal average speeds.

But dropouts can sure be annoying if they can actually help with that, or at least provide some sort of resume function.

 

[Rod]

I have to say I never saw any increase in speed myself and the re registration fee was unreasonable, suffice to say my wife has gotten her money's worth since it was dicontinued. What it did do very well though was maintain a download despite just about every known obstacle, power blackouts, accidental shut downs, slow servers, you name it. We tried Folx some time back it was unable to cope with some aspect of the url address in the link. For example it would download Part 1 but balk at Part 2. This has never been an issue with SD, she can add links for 4 separate parts and it will keep on until it has them all.
Thanks Patrick and ferrarr, I downloaded the free Trial Version of SD from Softpedia after a bit of searching and ran it successfully with Sierra on my MBP so upgraded my wife's MBP overnight. I may give Folx 5 another try though as it's probably been improved a bit since the last time I tried it. The hard part will be convincing my wife and really until SD dies there's no real need.

 

[harryb2448]

Now to add further mystery to this thread.

After not being able to use DiskmakerX when I installed Sierra, today started download again to make a bootable thumb drive. At 3.67GB up popped an error message. I closed Software Updates, and then opened it and again hit Sierra download, and wonders of wonders Rod it resumed at 3.67GB and completed. Maybe the problem lay with how busy Apple's servers were that first day Rod.

 

[Rod]

The problem was that I broke the connection. But yes I also think they were very busy.