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

[Christian Knoke <chrisk@xxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 06:16:06PM -0600, Anthony J. Stuckey wrote:
> 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.

Yees. T'wasn't quite seriuos. Just being frustrated about bad connections a
bit.

BTW: Heard of this new multi-streamed protocol?

Christian

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