On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 23:24, Andrew Daviel <[email protected]> wrote: > When downloading a large file over a high-latency (e.g. long physical > distance) high-bandwidth link, the download time is dominated by the > round-trip time for TCP handshakes.
Which is why large files should be stored on FTP servers, not http. FTP was designed for a reason: to transfer large binary files reliably. http was designed primarily to serve web pages, not large file downloads. But try telling that to today´s sysadmins and webmasters educated aften Win95... FC -- "The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers." Richard Hamming - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamming_code
