I'm not sure how FEC is going to help, unless I do this. Send lots of packets, bit the first bit of each packet is an error corrected byte of the file to be tr

I'm not sure how FEC is going to help, unless I do this. Send lots of packets, bit the first bit of each packet is an error corrected byte of the file to be transmitted. Then if a packet gets lost I simply make up a random one and let the error correction deal with it. If I use 2 bit correction then I can lose two packets and still have uncorrupted transmission. Hmm. I still need to know how many packets I expect, how big the file is, and some sort of checksum to ensure that I haven't error "corrected" to the wrong value anywhere. It seems very complex compared with just a simple re-try of packets that haven't arrived. Advantage is that it's forward only, but that doesn't help much since I do have a two-way connection. I'll think about that though, because although it's non-obvious, I can see that it does potentially have advantages. Not necessarily in this specific case, though.