UDP Isn't Unreliable, It's a Conertible

Re:UDP Isn't Unreliable, It's a Conertible by threatofrain on Thursday October 30, 2025 @06:48PM (#45766301)

For the case examples being discussed, like drones, TCP is unreliable in the sense that it may be death penalty for your app. Isn't death penalty a severe kind of unreliable? In that case UDP is much more reliable in not murdering your app.

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Re:UDP Isn't Unreliable, It's a Conertible by cestith on Friday October 31, 2025 @11:33AM (#45773225)

TCP will be reliably too slow. There are situations in which it’s better to drop a packet than wait for a reordering buffer. That doesn’t mean UDP is reliable. It just means sometimes it’s the right solution anyway.

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Re:UDP Isn't Unreliable, It's a Conertible by threatofrain on Friday October 31, 2025 @12:44PM (#45774035)

Too slow underplays how bad it is. It'll be unbounded backup. That is death penalty. There's no point in talking about reliability at that point.

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