Patrick Elliott wrote:
> This is not actually the case. Well, at least with Windows. For some 
> wacky reason, Windows handles "multiple" connections faster than a 
> single one. Don't ask me why.. 

TCP Windowing perhaps. Lots of overhead in the kernel to turn around an ACK 
perhaps.

> Oh, and that is one thing you can **not** do with FTP. FTP is blind to 
> how much bandwidth you use. It will use as much as it can, sans what 
> ever other processes are using.

Well, technically, that's the client, not the protocol itself.

The box I am programming for work, when you pick up the VOIP phone to make a 
call, it throttles back all the HTTP and FTP connections it's proxying, and 
then lets them go full speed again when you hang up.

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