Newsgroups : Borland : borland.public.delphi.internet.winsock : 2006 Jun : Re: TidUDPServer question
| Subject: | Re: TidUDPServer question |
| Posted by: | "Jamie Dale" (j.da..@turboz.net) |
| Date: | Sat, 3 Jun 2006 00:41:37 |
> UDP is for cases where you don't care whether data ever arrives at all, or
> arrives corrupted or in the wrong order (think of streaming audio/video,
> for
> example), or if you have to broadcast data to a lot of clients on a
> network
> very quickly. TCP, on the other hand, is for cases where you need
> reliable
> and predictable transmissions and don't need very much broadcasting
>
Got it - Thanks
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