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TCP vs UDP Comparison

whenever a computer wants to communicate with another computer the communication between those two computers needs to be good and reliable so we can guarantee that the data is received correctly for example when you want to view a webpage or download a file or look at an email you'd expect to view the webpage intact and in order with nothing missing or if you're downloading a file you would want the entire file and not just a part of the file because if data is missing or out of order then it wouldn't be of any benefit to you so this is where TCP comes in TCP stands for transmission control protocol and this is one of the main protocols used in a tcp/ip network and TCP is what is used to guarantee that all the data is received and in order because without TCP then some of the data could be missing or out of order because if you view a web page without TCP your web page could be all messed up the images could be missing or the text could be backwards and out of order or if y...