[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Network bandwidth, and other things.

["Anthony J. Stuckey" <astuckey@xxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 09:51:38PM +0100, Christian Knoke wrote:
> > The conclusion is: TCP performance is really awful over a high-latency 
> > connection.  It is also really awful when any significant portion (even 
> > just 1%) of packets get dropped.  And by resending packets, it is likely 
> > to congest the network even more causing the drop rate to increase.
> 
> Just thinking what happens if we change to UDP ... :)

        We have to re-implement 90% of TCP to get what it gives us for free?
No Thanks.  Just Say No.