On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Olaf van der Spek wrote:

> It's still a weird idea. Why would using multiple connections cause a speed
> up?

There are in fact multiple scenarios where that is indeed the case. It could
be servers using round-robin DNS so that each new connection potentially use
another server and they have varying load. It is also unfortunately not too
rare to see ISPs etc limit TCP flows so that two independent flows can
transfer data faster than one single. (I have a friend with a setup like that
and I've seen it work.)

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  / daniel.haxx.se
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