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Re:QUIC Is Not Quick Enough over Fast Internet by ratorx on Saturday October 19, 2024 @06:31PM (#41891292)
It depends on whether it’s meaningfully slower. QUIC is pretty optimized for standard web traffic, and more specifically for high-latency networks. Most websites also don’t send enough data for throughput to be a significant issue.

I’m not sure whether it’s possible, but could you theoretically offload large file downloads to HTTP/2 to get best of both worlds?

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Re:QUIC Is Not Quick Enough over Fast Internet by pocketarc on Saturday October 19, 2024 @07:05PM (#41891490)
> could you theoretically offload large file downloads to HTTP/2

Yes, you can! You’d have your websites on servers that support HTTP/3 and your large files on HTTP/2 servers, similar to how people put certain files on CDNs. It might well be a great solution!

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Re:QUIC Is Not Quick Enough over Fast Internet by kijin on Saturday October 19, 2024 @11:18PM (#41892614)
High-latency networks are going away, too, with Cloudflare eating the web alive and all the other major clouds adding PoPs like crazy.
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