I was right! It won’t!

The only interesting feature of UDP I’d care about is that UDP hole punching makes it possible to connect two peers behind routers (often mislabeled as “firewalls”) by help of a common third peer. This requires no relaying. LimeWire does it and it sure helps. It’s one of the Gnutella features that still puts most other P2P protocols to shame because those support at best inefficient relaying.

For this reason alone, TCP over UDP would be an excellent idea because it’s well-known and well-understood. At least it’s much better than inventing your own TCP-like protocol unless you know exactly what you’re doing. No sorry, BitTorrent isn’t anywhere near as complex as to be an automatic qualification.

The internet wasn’t designed to survive a nuclear war. That’s urban legendary bullshit. It was designed to support alternative routes for redundancy and reliability. Nothing more, nothing less. In reality most routes are anything but redundant nowadays.

Most of the commenters here should do themselves a favour, drink a warm cup of STFU and read upon TCP/IP before they even dare to open their uneducated mouths in this context. Really, the level of retardedness in most comments here isn’t funny anymore.

(i) I get full-throttle NNTP access completely ‘free’ from my ISP, just for being a customer (how kind of them).
(ii) You’re (probably) on a pay-to-leech private tracker.
Ergo, (iii) Who’s the one violating the ’sharing is caring’ ethic then whining about piracy here (TINH)?

*COUGH* What Am I saying?!?1! Forget that, definitley_don’t_ Google NNTP/Usenet/News Servers. There’s “NO SUCH THING”(TM)

Stick to torrents – they’re way cooler.

upload bebo

It does make some sense with stable connections, but stuff get lost and corrupted on the Internet, add wireless to that or maybe a slightly fault router/switch/modem/network adapter that a lot of people have but don’t know because TCP mostly takes care of it and it will likely be a lot slower and more wasteful. Maybe using TCP as a backup for connections that is problematic make it all good.

I wish them luck destroying it!

What’s the hold up?

until then… ahoy! pirates!

AFAIK, NNTP goes over a TCP connection as well, there’s a difference between application protocols and transport protocols.

And it really isn’t worth paying money just to get maybe a 10% faster download, if that. Save your money.

I’m actually glad that morons – such as this commenter – are able to let the world know how moronic they are. I don’t want them to shut up. I want everyone to know their moronic thoughts. That way everyone else can know never to allow them to be in charge of anything outside of their basement.

I like the sound of this. Anything with the potential to limit the ability for 3rd parties to control, which invariably leads to abuse of power, is a good thing in my eyes. If you allow for controls to form your freedoms are screwed unless in perfect alignment with the controlling powers.

Or something.

The hole world is full of nonsense and the internet just makes my brain hurt…….

Reducing overhead will help congestion not cause it. Bittorrent is taking the lions share of bandwidth, but that’s not at the expense of other programs or protocols, it just shadows peoples habits, more users use bittorrent, simple as that.

This guy is indeed a joke and apparently doesn’t have a basic grasp of the technology he’s talking about let alone torrents.

UDP was NOT designed with voip in mind. The protocol was designed in the late 70’s early 80s for christ sake.

UDP is a perfect fit for torrents. UDP does not provide reliability or integrity options, it merely chunks and sends data, assuming the application using the protocol is handling error checking and sequencing. Torrents use a built in hash check for error checking, and using TCP is a waste, as UDP seems to fit right into torrents.

To help this jackass get a grasp of this……

UDP would be smaller packets than the same transfer over TCP as UDP uses less bits, simple as that.

The traffic is going to change protocols, it’s not going to shrink or grow by any large margin, it’s merely going to use the most efficient method of delivery for torrented content.

If IPS’s would simply adopt the torrent model into some of their hosting services, we’d see large increases of bandwidth across the board.

Then again, if these telcos used the money they earn selling their service to actually maintain and upgrade their network like the are supposed to, non of this would be a concern.