"Andrew Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As long as you don't do a significantly worse job than the authors > of TCP and you're not trying to implement all of the features of TCP > you will not have "slower downloads" than you would with TCP.
Assuming that you can do as good a job as the authors of TCP is questionable. It's a complex protocol, and is that way for a reason. It has developed to where it is today by responding to real-world challenges, and it has proved to be effective at meeting them. Have you seen the book 'TCP/IP Illustrated'? Not a small tome. One of the key features of TCP is congestion control. As a network scales, the performance characteristics of a protocol change significantly from when they operate in a vacuum. As Hans mentioned earlier, the early internet was severely hampered by congestion; as a result, TCP congestion control was introduced and overall throughput increased dramatically. Considering that Comcast is doing this stuff as a result of congestion, and that bandwidth usage is only likely to increase, do you think moving one of the primary uses of bandwidth to a protocol that doesn't do congestion control is a good idea? --Levi /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */