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		blasdel on Oct 21, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Reliable, fast UDP-based data transfer protocol th... Like most people, you've missed the point of TCP. Error-checking is trivial -- congestion control is HARD

m0th87 on Oct 21, 2009 [–]

This is true, but my understanding is TCP's congestion control mechanism is far from ideal and the root cause of its performance problems.

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