I have been using FTP a lot lately to upload/download files from a web server, and i have noticed that when you download or upload one large file, it takes less time (far less time) than a group of smaller files with the same total size.
Since i am not much of an expert in networking, I just started wondering as to why that happens? is that normal? does perhaps initializing the streams for every file consume that much time?
I tried it using a Java applet provided by the web hosting provider, and the FTP command on the shell.
Just a curious mind wondering, thanks in advance.
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