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trollied ◴[] No.42069524[source]
>In a typical TCP/IP network connected via ethernet, the standard MTU (Maximum Transmission Unit) is 1500 bytes, resulting in a TCP MSS (Maximum Segment Size) of 1448 bytes. This is much smaller than our 3MB+ raw video frames.

> Even the theoretical maximum size of a TCP/IP packet, 64k, is much smaller than the data we need to send, so there's no way for us to use TCP/IP without suffering from fragmentation.

Just highlights that they do not have enough technical knowledge in house. Should spend the $1m/year saving on hiring some good devs.

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1. lttlrck ◴[] No.42070811[source]
The article reads a like a personal "learn by doing" blog post.