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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
I am also curious why they need to download 4 at once, I can get 3.8meg/sec on one file only. The only reasons I would think of needing to do 4 are.
1 - to hide congestion as multi threaded in congestion conditions gives a bigger share of bandwidth.
2 - to hide rtt variance (jitter), if base latency is also high then it would mean need a higher tcp rwin to sustain higher speeds single threaded.
3 - if on windows XP or older with a small default rwin setting. (on gigabit lan it defaults much higher tho).
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It balances out the download because if one file is downloading very slowly but the other is flying that indicates an issue, whenever I download all files are fairly well balanced.