> Also TCP handles packet loss just fine That's just plain wrong. I commented in more depth in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39709591 https://news.ycom

> Also TCP handles packet loss just fine That's just plain wrong. I commented in more depth in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39709591 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39709591. In short, TCP treats packet loss as congestion signal and slows down. If the packet loss was due to congestion that's absolutely the correct response and it increases TCP's "goodput". But if the packet was lost due to noise then it has the opposite effect and goodput plummets to a fraction of what the link is capable of.