WCF - what is the fastest binding?

Question

I currently have a WCF service which uses BasicHTTP binding, and is wrapped with a secure router/firewall (PFSense).

I have heard that there is a faster binding than Bas

Answer 1

If your solution is deployed to an intranet, you can use NetTcpBinding.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.servicemodel.nettcpbinding.aspx

While perhaps not authoratative, this post covers some benchmarking with these results, which are consistent with my answer and parapura's:

WSDualHttpBinding: Processed 1602 calls in 10 seconds
WSHttpBinding: Processed 2531 calls in 10 seconds
BasicHttpBinding: Processed 17913 calls in 10 seconds
NetTcpBinding: Processed 39957 calls in 10 seconds
NetNamedPipeBinding: Processed 48255 calls in 10 seconds