Dick St.Peters <stpeters@NetHeaven.com> wrote:
One dirty little secret is that most phone calls and videoconferences ram their way past data transmissions by using a bully of a communications method called UDP. Unlike the more polite Transmission Control Protocol, TCP, which drops back when it detects congestion, UDP continues at full speed, elbowing ahead of TCP traffic.
Sigh, I guess you need to have part of your network shut down by the above-described effect to appreciate just how unusually accurate a portrayal that description is.
ping -f does it much better. UDP is not bad per se. Broken applications are. --vadim
UDP is not bad per se. Broken applications are.
Of course, but it is the misuse of UDP for streaming data transport on a shared network that makes these applications broken. -- Dick St.Peters, Gatekeeper, Pearly Gateway, Ballston Spa, NY stpeters@NetHeaven.com Owner, NetHeaven 518-885-1295/800-910-6671 Albany/Saratoga/Glens Falls/North Creek/Lake Placid/Blue Mountain Lake First Internet service based in the 518 area code
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