As part of my current project I'm working on using C#.  My assigment involves to download files (some of them quite large) from an HTTP server, I know this is not rocket rocket science specially in .net world.

So while I can succesfully download  the files, my issue is that no method I've tried including the built in WebClient class can match the speed when I try to download the same file using IE or any other web browser.

Of course the question is if any of you guys how the browsers download the files and how can I implement such a method in C#?

Thanx in advance,

Raptor

PS: Yes I've googled/binged this to no success so far.

using System.Net;
... 

WebClient wc = new WebClient();
wc.DownloadFile(httpHostName, localFileName);

Under the hood this is using the same mechanism to download the files as Internet Explorer (WinInet/WinHttp).

for example if the http stream is coming back with 4 meg chunks then the client buffer size should be some multiple of that value so that it does not have to alloc more storage while downloading.

stuff like that can make a huge difference in perf.