On 10/19/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Mike Wyatt</b> <<a href="mailto:mwyatt@wi.rr.com">mwyatt@wi.rr.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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I've been doing more research since my last message, and I found some
pretty interesting results.<br>
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Check out the posts from Simagery, hplus0603, and Ranger_One in this
thread: <a href="http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=370603&whichpage=1&#2443682" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=370603&whichpage=1&#2443682
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A good summary of that thread is this quote from Simagery: "...all of
that above knowledge [UDP's superior flexibility] is based on the
"state of the
art" networking code circa 2000. Today, with wide availability of
broadband, faster CPUs, higher quality NICs and better TCP/IP
implementations, it all may be moot.". I think that may have convinced
me to stick with TCP.<br>
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Here's another great thread:
<a href="http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=262742" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=262742</a>. I
didn't read the whole thing, but it includes more discussion of UDP vs.
TCP. There is even someone who questions the accuracy of the X-Wing
vs. TIE Fighter article.</div></blockquote><div><br>I think the most important thing here isn't what the game industry says you should do, but what your own stated requirements were. You specifically said you wanted ordered, guaranteed-delivery data, and that's something that UDP doesn't give you and that TCP does. If you had some good reason to *avoid* either of those qualities, perhaps UDP would be appropriate, but since you need that reliability, and TCP does exactly that, it is the clear winner.
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