Dylan Parry wrote:
> Brian Cryer wrote:
>
>> 2. That it would take you an age - perhaps its me but it always seems to
>> take longer than an on-paper-calculation says it should to upload even 1GB
>> of files (say 1000 * 1MB files).
>
> That's because your on-paper calculations don't factor in the overhead,
> ie. the extra bits that are sent to ensure your data arrives at the
> server intact, nor do they factor in the extra communications performed
> at the start and end of each file being uploaded.
>
> All-in-all, these things will add a lot more data communications than
> you would have anticipated
>

Nor do they figure the delays in ACKing individual packets.

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