Comments on: Friends relaunching soon? http://steamreview.org/posts/friendsrelaunching/ Comment and discussion on Valve Software's digital communications platform. Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:49:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Andrew Simpson http://steamreview.org/posts/friendsrelaunching/comment-page-1/#comment-111 Andrew Simpson Sat, 21 Jan 2006 22:52:51 +0000 http://www.steamreview.org/?p=37#comment-111 UDP doesn't really have a connection model, which is kinda the problem, you have to do it yourself. God knows why they implemented Steam with UDP in the first place - UDP makes sense when you need low overhead, if all you need is raw throughput, but no certainty the message will ever get there. So it's great for game servers and streaming media and such, and query packets, things like that. But for a chat and downloading, it makes zero sense. UDP doesn’t really have a connection model, which is kinda the problem, you have to do it yourself. God knows why they implemented Steam with UDP in the first place – UDP makes sense when you need low overhead, if all you need is raw throughput, but no certainty the message will ever get there. So it’s great for game servers and streaming media and such, and query packets, things like that.

But for a chat and downloading, it makes zero sense.

]]> By: DogGunn http://steamreview.org/posts/friendsrelaunching/comment-page-1/#comment-106 DogGunn Tue, 17 Jan 2006 01:35:22 +0000 http://www.steamreview.org/?p=37#comment-106 Hmm, very weird. Thanks for the heads up. Hmm, very weird. Thanks for the heads up.

]]> By: Tom Edwards http://steamreview.org/posts/friendsrelaunching/comment-page-1/#comment-105 Tom Edwards Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:16:10 +0000 http://www.steamreview.org/?p=37#comment-105 Something to do with Steam's current UDP connection model. It drops the connection when there's nothing going on, which is sensible enough when it comes to downloading content but does no favours for a chat client. Something along those lines, anyway. Steam and Friends 3.0 are switching to TCP and a <a href="http://steamreview.org/?p=18" rel="nofollow">'persistent session'</a>. Something to do with Steam’s current UDP connection model. It drops the connection when there’s nothing going on, which is sensible enough when it comes to downloading content but does no favours for a chat client.

Something along those lines, anyway. Steam and Friends 3.0 are switching to TCP and a ‘persistent session’.

]]> By: Anders http://steamreview.org/posts/friendsrelaunching/comment-page-1/#comment-104 Anders Mon, 16 Jan 2006 12:08:15 +0000 http://www.steamreview.org/?p=37#comment-104 I wonder why it has been down for so long. I wonder why it has been down for so long.

]]> By: mupet0000 http://steamreview.org/posts/friendsrelaunching/comment-page-1/#comment-100 mupet0000 Sun, 15 Jan 2006 01:12:15 +0000 http://www.steamreview.org/?p=37#comment-100 Cant wait for steam to update and for Freinds to be working again. I've never seen it in action but damn, it sounds pretty great! Cant wait for steam to update and for Freinds to be working again.

I’ve never seen it in action but damn, it sounds pretty great!

]]> By: ironclad http://steamreview.org/posts/friendsrelaunching/comment-page-1/#comment-99 ironclad Sat, 14 Jan 2006 19:01:35 +0000 http://www.steamreview.org/?p=37#comment-99 Monopoly FTW! Let the lawyers just try and stop us! Monopoly FTW!

Let the lawyers just try and stop us!

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