easy for an increased number of connections to cause all the connections to degrade in quality , especially with how low level IP buffering in various routers and switches operate these days . the mere presence of the traffic on the TCP channel can cause the UDP channel to suffer more dropped or delayed packets . How so ? I ' ve seen mentions of how TCP induces packet loss in UDP . I ' m not sure about the details of this . f orgameprogrammersudpvstcp <| sep |> He ' s not OP , he ' s DiGiorno . <| sep |> I can give you a Mimikyu . Haunter is fine since I don ' t have a Gengar yet <| sep |> Voat is just as susceptible . So why move sites ? <| sep |> Oh I know I was just taking a cheap shot at how unpleasant the place is <| sep |> I feel like it might be too big . Also the only game i would play would be overwatch