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

[Todd Goodman <tsg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

* Christian Knoke <chrisk@xxxxxxxx> [021109 04:34]:
> 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

Do you mean SCTP?

Todd