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How do you get hit by file corruption when downloading via TCP in 2016? I don't recall this ever happening to me.
by _jomo 11y ago
How do you get hit by file corruption when downloading via TCP in 2016? I don't recall this ever happening to me.
- ryanlol 11y agoWhile possible, it's really really unlikely for this to happen without some fairly serious network issues between you and whoever you're downloading from.
- Laforet 11y agoOr a flaky bit in the RAM or (very rarely) storage media.
- nikanj 11y agoUse a Canadian ISP.
- frankzinger 11y ago"The TCP checksum uses the same mathematical function as is used by other Internet protocols (UDP, ICMP, etc.). For large data transfers, there is some concern that this checksum is not really strong enough [SP00], so careful applications should apply their own error protection methods (e.g., stronger checksums or CRCs) or use a middleware layer to achieve the same result (e.g., see [RFC5044])." -- TCP/IP Illustrated
- feld 11y agoTCP checksums are not reliable