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TCP sends data in-order but you don't need that for transferring a file. Hence you can do better than TCP.



http://udt.sourceforge.net/ is a solution using UDP but we decided that TCP with multiple flow was a better tradeoff for us (not to reinvent most of the window, congestion control, etc... of TCP)




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