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On my IPhone using 3g the latency is 500ms 10mi from my house. So you would incur about 3/4 sec latency to get each TCP connection established before you can transmit any data. And 1/2 sec latency for each request/response. Of course at greater distances or on Edge this number would go up.

If you use multiple connections you are going to have to deal with the added latency to establish each connection, (if they are opened serially). On the other hand, if you can only fetch one image at a time on a single connection, then the latency is going to get you that way too.

So things like TCP connection pooling and reusing existing connections might provide optimal results. If you don't want to look into that stuff for this release, i'd be happy to help do an analysis after you release.