Thread: SEIV Gold Demo does *not* have TCP/IP
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Old January 24th, 2002, 08:33 PM

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Default Re: SEIV Gold Demo does *not* have TCP/IP
Actually, UDP is *worse* for transfer of anything larger than the size of a single packet (generally <1KB).

Substantially worse, actually. If SEIV Gold is using UDP for the actual turn transfers (which I didn't test), it would probably get rather a lot faster with TCP/IP. *Especially* over dialup.

The only advantages to UDP are that individual packets get there faster (at the cost of losing many of them) and it's easier to program.

-Robin
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