David Barrett wrote:
Wow, very interesting. I can see the value of downloading in parallel from
multiple mirrors...
I can't. Assuming they're all servers with public IP addresses and
reasonable outbound bandwidth, having each client load-balanced to a
single specific server and downloading over a single TCP stream is more
efficient for the network -- and provides better download performance
for the user -- than having multiple TCP streams fight over the same
congestion-limited download pipe.
The only reason to download from multiple sources simultaneously is the
case where upstream capacity of serving nodes is a small fraction of
downstream capacity (see: P2P filesharing network where the files are
only present on ADSL or cable modem connected user machines), and thus
there'd be no way to fill the download pipe otherwise.
Matthew Kaufman
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