Re: [Pan-users] Re: Increasing connections to server decreases overall speed

[Rick Barry]

--- On Fri, 10/3/08, walt <address@hidden> wrote:


> 
> First, how are you measuring the total throughput?  The
> bottom left box
> of pan's status bar?  

Yes. For my purposes, it's close enough.
> 
> Second, what is the advantage of using 10 connections? 
> This has puzzled
> me for a long time and I've heard several different
> explanations which
> haven't quite convinced me yet.  This question always
> sparks a lively
> debate, which I've already heard several times but
> wouldn't mind hearing
> again.
> 
My understanding is it is helpful when downloading a large number of headers. 
Through trial and error, I found that 8 connections seems to be the sweet spot 
for my connection and system. No slow down in speed and through put appears to 
be improved over 4 connections. Changing the size of the cache made no 
noticable difference as far as I could tell.