On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 7:46 PM, Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote:
> 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

In this case, aren't you 'stealing' bandwidth from other users by
trying to get a bigger piece of the pie yourself?

> 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.)

Hmm, yeah, still, not a good reason to do this in general.

Olaf
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