 RARPSL
join:1999-12-08
Suffern, NY | reply to iansltx
Re: While more affordable... said by iansltx:uTP...erm...UDP FTW! Which of my two comments (The 1MBs Uplink or the Caps) is this in reference to? In either case, I am not able to determine what your reply means. |
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iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 | Neither. UDP doesn't reuqire ACKs so less overhead so you can actually get 50 Mbps of downstream speed on your cable connection  Until you hit the cap that is... |
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RARPSL
join:1999-12-08
Suffern, NY | said by iansltx:Neither. UDP doesn't reuqire ACKs so less overhead so you can actually get 50 Mbps of downstream speed on your cable connection Until you hit the cap that is... True BUT a download needs TCP not UDP flow since you have to do arrival handshakes to insure you get all the packets. UDP is only useful for streaming type downloads (ViOP/Video) as opposed to the file copy/transfer type operations that I was talking about. |
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iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 | ...though uTorrent is using uTP for file transfers now, and it's going over UDP... |
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