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I found great joy in reading about Quake3's networking model [1]. It is build on top of the assumption that the network is unreliable: most of the packets will be dropped and those that make it are not in sequence.

[1] http://trac.bookofhook.com/bookofhook/trac.cgi/wiki/Quake3Ne...

It's interesting how similar that approach is to the one taken by Mosh:

https://mosh.mit.edu/#techinfo

Ugh, they could have turned it into 3 pages and still it would be a pain to read.

Oh, and the system described sounds similar to what is powering Warframe right now.

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