Quote:Original post by Sir Sapo
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And make your system more fragile to dropped packets. At some point this starts to become more significant than the packet overhead, so you obviously want to keep your packets between some reasonable min and max sizes.
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Well, I'm using TCP/IP and I was under the impression that my data is guarenteed to go through if that's what I am using (provided everything else is working). |
It'll still be guranteed, but that doesn't mean you still don't get affected by dropped packets. Dropped packets will get detected and retransmitted for you, but this takes time. And if a big packet is dropped or corrupted, you will have to retransmit a lot more than if you had smaller packets.
Although IIRC, TCP will try and keep your packets to a suitable size anyhow. But if you're using TCP then you don't have the concept of a packet anywho. [razz]
