StreamReader to slow?!?

[janis]

Hi,
I get some web page in this way:

Dim txt as string
Dim startD As Date, endD As Date
Dim rS As Stream 
    rS = HttpWebResponse.GetResponseStream()
    startD = DateTime.Now
    Dim sR As New StreamReader(rS)
    txt = strReader.ReadToEnd()
    endD = Now

This web page has about 350kb and difference from startD and endD is 8sec. I think that is to much time for loading 350kb file. Can I do it faster?

thanks j

[stanav]

I don't think it's the StreamReader but rather the tranfer rate/bandwidth/speed of the connection.

[ComputerJy]

You don't want to read documents that way, use BufferedStream instead because the ReadToEnd loads the entire stream in memory at once ( which might not work for larger WebStream, especially on client computer )

[janis]

Thanks 'ComputerJy', I'll try with BufferedStream and post results here.

stanav said:
I don't think it's the StreamReader but rather the tranfer rate/bandwidth/speed of the connection.

I don't think so, I write some stuff in vb6 using xmlHttp and I get web page text in 2-3sec.

thanks j

[gigemboy]

Why dont you put start and end times before and after the httpwebresponse, and then another set before and after the streamreader part, and compare the two to see what is the larger bottleneck. Is that all the code? Or are you doing more that you didn't post? Something with analyzing that data? Or are you merely displaying it...