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RARPSL

join:1999-12-08
Suffern, NY

Re: While more affordable...

said by iansltx See Profile :

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.
permalink · 2009-01-08 16:31:54 · Print · Reply to this
iansltx

join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO

Re: While more affordable...

...though uTorrent is using uTP for file transfers now, and it's going over UDP...
permalink · 2009-01-08 16:51:51 · Reply to this
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