UDP packets loss at Israeli ISPs during peak hours

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Sun, Jul 03, 2011 at 08:25:27AM +0300, geoffrey mendelson wrote:

> HTTP was built around TCP because the designers wanted 100% reliablilty 
> instead of (possible) better performance.
>
> FTP was built on neither. The FTP protocol uses UDP, but includes a  
> rudimentry implementation of the same functions as TCP (packet  
> sequencing and replacements of bad/missing packets).

FTP? TFTP?

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