Uploading and Downloading Comparison using WebRequest & Sockets

Question

Hiya I am working on an FTP client, can someone tell me the difference in speed and efficiency for using WebRequest and sockets (direct network streams) to download and upload files on the FTP server. (Our files will be video streams.) I am using C#3.5.

Answer 1

This is without the benefit of extensive testing but I've used both methods in the past. WebRequest does some inheriting from the Stream class and is really just a convenient wrapper for doing the sort of work you're up to. Any losses you might face could, I think, be written off as negligible. Perhaps a tiny amount of RAM at worst. Enjoy the extra functionality, thats why it was created.