Re: [squid-users] accleration thru multiple tcp connections

On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, lartc@manchotnetworks.net wrote:

> does squid support "download/http acceleration" thru the use of multiple
> tcp connections to the target host?

No.

> possible, planned?

Refused as such behaviour is extremely impolite on the network in addition
to very complex to get correct in all situations. The only reason why this
speeds up your download is because it makes downloads for users without
download "accelerators" go even worse.

Fact of life: If all users were downloading with download accelerators
then the Internet would most likely not work for normal traffic. Much in
the same way that HTTP/1.0 (before keep-alive) was a big pain.

There is one exception where multiple connections may be valid and that is
if you have multiple dialup Internet connections to different ISPs (or a
ISP not supporting multilink-PPP) and want to balance the download over
more than one connection, but this is not a target area for Squid.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Thu Jan 15 2004 - 11:08:12 MST