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But bittorrent breaks the files in to chunks it can receive out of order and sends those over TCP, so TCP only preserves ordering within a chunk. It might even

But bittorrent breaks the files in to chunks it can receive out of order and sends those over TCP, so TCP only preserves ordering within a chunk. It might even get chunks from several different people. The real answer is that chunking over TCP is efficient enough that little is gained by chunking over UDP.

blackflame7000 10y ago
Yes what I'm saying is that bit torrent uses TCP to segment fileblocks instead of using UDP to send the file block as one large datagram