Consider a short, 90-meter link, over which a sender can transmit at a rate of 420 bits/sec in both directions. Suppose that packets containing data are 320,000 bits long, and packets containing only control (e. g. ACK or handshaking) are 240 bits long. Assume that N parallel connections each get 1/ N of the link bandwidth. Now consider the HTTP protocol, and assume that each downloaded object is 300 Kbit long, and the initial downloaded object contains 6 referenced objects from the same sender. Required:
Would parallel download via parallel instances of non-persistent HTTP make sense in this case? Now consider persistent HTTP. Doyou expect significant gains over the non-persistent case?