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• Pallavi PhatakUff there you go again with your abbreviations!!! What is 'UDP'? Hide
• Saurabh JPallavi, it's a way of sending things over the Internet, where you don't care if the receiver receives the information or not. Now, I know how that might sound disconcerting to you. Why would you even send the info if you didn't care if the other party got it? Let's say some digital thermometer was sending its temperature readings to a website, every minute. If one reading is missed, it doesn't quite break the world. Where this is usually used is in services like Skype. If you start loosing traffic from one end to the other, you know that the people involved will just pause for a while and giv
• Pallavi PhatakUrgh. Yes. Hide
• Pallavi PhatakPallavi Phatak  · 12yUff there you go again with your abbreviations!!! What is 'UDP'?LikeHide
• Saurabh JSaurabh J  · 12yPallavi, it's a way of sending things over the Internet, where you don't care if the receiver receives the information or not. Now, I know how that might sound disconcerting to you. Why would you even send the info if you didn't care if the other party got it? Let's say some digital thermometer was sending its temperature readings to a website, every minute. If one reading is missed, it doesn't quite break the world. Where this is usually used is in services like Skype. If you start loosing traffic from one end to the other, you know that the people involved will just pause for
• Pallavi PhatakPallavi Phatak  · 12y  · by authorUrgh. Yes. Hide