I'm getting the impression that you're mostly only taking the endpoints into account. There's tons of stuff happening in between the peers: having worked on spe

I'm getting the impression that you're mostly only taking the endpoints into account. There's tons of stuff happening in between the peers: having worked on specialty routing equipment, I can add that the prevailing philosophy was that generic UDP packets were lower quality-of-service than TCP. That is, if the router was under high load, UDP would be dropped before TCP.