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Reading from sockets and download speed

Just for fun, I develop a download manager and I'd like to know if reading a large stack of data (i.e. 80 or 100KB) from a socket over the net makes the download speed higher, instead of reading 4KB for each loop iteration?

(My average download speed is 200KBPS when I download a file with firefox for example)

Thanks, Nir Tayeb.

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nosklo  2009-10-08 11:24:28
I know that my transfer rate is small, but how can I use as much as possible from the transfer rate? how the read function affect on it?thanks.
 2009-10-08 11:33:23
@nirtayeb: Your operational system controls that. Most OSes have no traffic shaping, so you'll get full transfer rate on both methods, unless other process is also using the connection.
nosklo  2009-10-08 11:57:52
thanks a lot :)
 2009-10-08 12:03:58

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