it doesn't. QUIC is a slow inefficient toy protocol. mainly as a tunnel for accepting spdy, a protocol "designed" with TCP in mind. http://www.connectify.me/bl

it doesn't. QUIC is a slow inefficient toy protocol. mainly as a tunnel for accepting spdy, a protocol "designed" with TCP in mind. http://www.connectify.me/blog/taking-google-quic-for-a-test-drive/ http://www.connectify.me/blog/taking-google-quic-for-a-test-... things might have improved, but over slow lossy links, its really not worth the hassle. the OC alludes to the point that UDP requires less kernel intervention, which means you can do more funky things.