Re: TI-H: Demolition Calc
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Re: TI-H: Demolition Calc
Ah, so the people that Make ICQ are stupid for using UDP? I car what
packets are lost, and doesnt that mean Transfers have a better chance
to be corrupted? I smell superglue.
At approximately 12:09 PM -0500GMT on the day Earth People call
12/21/98, Jon Olson declared:
> People use UDP because it doesn't require an ACK to each packet like
> TCP. For example in action 3d games like quake, half-life, unreal,
> etc. You don't care if you miss a packet or two for most things (and
> the things that do have ACKs internal to the higher level protocol),
> so sending back an ACK on every packet you get just to say "Yah, i got
> it." is a waste of precious bandwidth. UDP headers are also
> significantly smaller than TCP headers
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