tcp/ip only goes so fast.

"Bob Puff@NLE" wrote:
> 
> > 10 times faster? Me thinks you are dreaming. Bandwidth is bandwidth, and
> > there's only so much. Whether you set up 10 simultaneous downloads or do
> > only one, you are going to get the file in the same period of time.
> 
> Actually, I found at least with a dialup with Win95 and Netscape, downloading 
>multiple files at once seemed to take longer than sequentially downloading the same 
>files.  I figured there must be added overhead on separating the packets.  I may be 
>wrong, but this was my observation.
> 
> Bob

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