> can lead to a situation where all of your TCP streams try to over-ramp. ... A single stream generally behaves better on such a link: it's getting a much more complete picture of the world
Multiple HTTP connections work better for exactly this reason, because they are 'stealing' bandwidth from streaming video by 'not playing fair'. For example, 6 connections ramping back up bandwidth at 6x the rate of a single connection or sometimes only scaling back on 1/6th of the streams at once.
...which is fine because multiple parallel HTTP connections is usually a browser doing so for short-lived data transfers for active users and it is not the bulk of the data on the network.
Multiple HTTP connections work better for exactly this reason, because they are 'stealing' bandwidth from streaming video by 'not playing fair'. For example, 6 connections ramping back up bandwidth at 6x the rate of a single connection or sometimes only scaling back on 1/6th of the streams at once.
...which is fine because multiple parallel HTTP connections is usually a browser doing so for short-lived data transfers for active users and it is not the bulk of the data on the network.