If it uses the UDP protocol to send and receive data, it will use a UDP port. Figure 1, below, is a represenation of an IP address split into its many TCP and UDP ports.

Optimizing a VPN isn't just about picking a protocol - choosing UDP or TCP can make a big difference, too.

In the last newsletter we started discussing the protocol stack used for transporting voice over IP. Today we’ll move to the control for those conversations.

The similarities and differences between TCP and UDP (User Datagram Protocol) over the Internet are also presented in this paper.

In this first installment of a two-part lesson, we will discuss the difference between IP video that is carried by TCP and IP video that is carried by UDP. They behave very differently on the network.

New so-called reliable UDP solutions offer an alternative to TCP. But are they worth the time or money to implement?

A 2017 statistic showed that only 3% of all DNS queries were sent via TCP, and the rest being handled via the more insecure UDP protocol.

<p>As with any network and internet-capable computing system, many of Apple's services and programs require access to the internet and/or local network using TCP and UDP ports to function properly ...

TCP/IP will throttle back if it thinks a connection is being flooded. You also get no compression with UDP, but you said packet size is not an issue.<P>Are you using port trunking?