Re: apt: HTTP transfer method does not use available bandwidth

[Raul Miller]

Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk> wrote:
>               unix.hensa.ac.uk                sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk
> wget http:    1.97KB/s                        1.90KB/s
> wget ftp:     5.19KB/s                        5.42KB/s

wget uses HTTP/1.0, so must establish a new connection for
every file transfered via http, but can re-use the connection
for ftp.

-- 
Raul


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