iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 | reply to RARPSL
Re: While more affordable... 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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