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UDP only #1463

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ohenepee opened this issue Aug 8, 2018 · 2 comments
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UDP only #1463

ohenepee opened this issue Aug 8, 2018 · 2 comments

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@ohenepee ohenepee commented Aug 8, 2018

Is there a way to let webtorrent (Node.js) communicate over UDP only (in literally everything)? All clients will definitely be Node.js clients (no Browsers).
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@KayleePop KayleePop commented Aug 11, 2018

I may be wrong, but I think bittorrent always uses TCP for actually downloading pieces and metadata from peers.

UDP is used for the DHT and for udp trackers though.

I think the reliability of TCP is worth the overhead in this case though, because the order of packets is very important for large files.

Maybe https://www.npmjs.com/package/scuttlebutt would be better for you?
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@ohenepee ohenepee commented Aug 11, 2018

Thanks... did some research which confirms that YES BitTorrent downloads over TCP... I also found uTP but that sucks beyond the word itself... so many issue around it.
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