I then ported the client application over to the Gadgeteer platform to see if that made a difference. I used a FEZSpider running .Net MF V4.2.

I then timed 10 requests to gpstrackerhttpheaders.cloudapp.net
1227,1153,1158,1156,1128,1130,1176,1224,1159,1225
Average 1174 mSec

IP Address
891,883,886,883,882,881,891,884,885,882
Average 884 mSec

These numbers are better than the Netduino+ but still not great. I need to go and take another look at my code to figure out what I am doing wrong.  For consistency with the Netduino+ I didn’t use the GHI premium Net library but will build a version of the client application which uses it in a future post.