Java multithreaded file downloading performance

Question

Having recently worked on a project which required some more IO interaction than I\'m used to, I felt like I wanted to look past the regular libraries (Commons IO, in partic

Answer 1

Set a very large socket receive buffer. But really your performance will be limited by the network bandwidth, not CPU bandwidth. All you're doing really is allocating 1/3 of the network bandwidth to each downloader. I'd be surprised if you get much benefit.