[bsdetector]

> 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.