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Fun! One of my college networking classes had us write a file transfer program. Except the server was buggy (on purpose!) and it would corrupt bits here and the
by jtchang 4y ago
Fun! One of my college networking classes had us write a file transfer program. Except the server was buggy (on purpose!) and it would corrupt bits here and there. They had a public leaderboard of people who could transfer the most amount of data over this very lossy link.
I originally was planning to implement some sort of forward error correction but then realized I could just use UDP and hammer the server with duplicate packets. Not very elegant but got me close to the top of fastest transfer speeds over a lossy link.