Re: Curl's network performance is slower than IDM.

Hi,

interesting thread.

> Am 18.06.2020 um 12:09 schrieb Daniel Stenberg via curl-library <curl-library_at_cool.haxx.se>:
>
> The question is then of course still what IDM does that makes it that much faster or perhaps what curl should do to improve. But without more details and knowledge of IDM's set of tricks, I'm not sure we will achieve that right now.

I’ve downloaded that program out of curiosity and compared it against curl on macOS.

curl is running natively on macOS, IDM in a Windows 10 VMware Fusion virtual machine on the same machine. I only tested a couple of times with the file (http://speedtest-ny.turnkeyinternet.net/1000mb.bin) and timed the total download time (using `time` for curl and using a stopwatch for IDM).

Interestingly, IDM showed max 13.5 MB/s with an average total download time of 93 seconds, while curl showed max 12.0 MB/s and took 86 seconds for the same file on average. So actually curl was faster but displayed the lower max transfer rate.

Important: Start your stopwatch already when you are in the dialog shown in my attached screenshot. They work with a little trick here: They start downloading in the background before you even press "Start Download"! (See network activity in my screenshot...)

@Hongyi: I’d recommend to retry the tests while measuring the time it takes to download the file instead of relying on the displayed download speed. Either curl could be too pessimistic in the displayed speed or IDM could be too optimistic. (In the end the selling point of their product is to be faster than the competitors.)

Disclaimer: I didn’t spend much time, and from a statistical point it’s probably not valid to draw any conclusions from my experiments.

Best,

Patrick

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