diff --git a/doc/todo/accellerate_ssh_remotes_with_git-annex-shell_mass_protocol.mdwn b/doc/todo/accellerate_ssh_remotes_with_git-annex-shell_mass_protocol.mdwn
index 39efa3b77a..f7b1908262 100644
--- a/doc/todo/accellerate_ssh_remotes_with_git-annex-shell_mass_protocol.mdwn
+++ b/doc/todo/accellerate_ssh_remotes_with_git-annex-shell_mass_protocol.mdwn
@@ -34,7 +34,8 @@ good to unify with it as much as possible.
 
 ----
 
-Implementation todos:
+Mostly implemented now, but need to test and think about these 
+implementation todos:
 
 * git-annex-shell p2pstdio currently always verifies content it receives.
   git-annex-shell recvkey has a speed optimisation, when it's told the file
@@ -63,3 +64,6 @@ are both running?)
 
 Transferring a 30 mb file over ssh to localhost, speed increased from
 3.288s to 3.031s. Due to rsync's several levels of checksumming?
+
+Dropping 1000 files from local, with each being locked on a ssh localhost
+remote, speed increased from 30s to 7s.
diff --git a/doc/todo/accellerate_ssh_remotes_with_git-annex-shell_mass_protocol/comment_2_660c9ece3dbfb2eb20b42b71826a4fbc._comment b/doc/todo/accellerate_ssh_remotes_with_git-annex-shell_mass_protocol/comment_2_660c9ece3dbfb2eb20b42b71826a4fbc._comment
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+++ b/doc/todo/accellerate_ssh_remotes_with_git-annex-shell_mass_protocol/comment_2_660c9ece3dbfb2eb20b42b71826a4fbc._comment
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="joey"
+ subject="""comment 2"""
+ date="2018-03-09T17:50:24Z"
+ content="""
+That's the same problem as bundling multiple files with rsync, just a
+different remote with a different program.
+
+If wget/curl invocation speed is actually a bottleneck, it might help to
+have git-annex use native haskell http-conduit for http downloads. That
+would allow for http connection pipelining. Please open a separate todo
+though, this one is only about git-annex-shell speed.
+"""]]