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Re:Is it just me or is networking really hard? by jorangreef on Monday September 14, 2015 @05:40AM (#10214276)
UDP is a lower level protocol than TCP so it's not an either/or as in "use UDP when low latency etc." is important and TCP when not.

Rather, you'd want to use a protocol built on UDP whenever you want something faster, better, more reliable than TCP.

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