Byte per byte download is slow!

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SebHoll

It's been a while since I used BlitzPlus/Blitz3D networking commands, but you can read multiple bytes at once using ReadBytes() into a bank previously created with CreateBank(). Note, that with ReadBytes(), you also have to specify how many bytes to read which can be determined with ReadAvail(). I haven't tested it, but something like the following should work:

Local tmpBank = CreateBank(bytes)
Local i% = 0, tmpAvailBytes% = 0
Repeat
    If Eof(tcp) Then RuntimeError "TCP Connection terminated before all bytes could be downloaded. Progress: " + i + "/" + bytes + " bytes."
    tmpAvailBytes = Min(ReadAvail(tcp), bytes-i)
    ReadBytes( tmpBank, tcp, i, tmpAvailBytes )
    i=i+tmpAvailBytes
Until i>=bytes

Hope this helps. ;-)