QUIC might be great, but what about the PHY layer? How are they simulating that? Can the PHY later handle packets that take forever to arrive? And what happens if you have half a packet?
How would this compare to, say, using the same stuff that the Ham guys use? They were doing IP over slow links decades ago.
And really, why use QUIC or IP at all when it's literally point-to-point traffic? Just send tagged chunks using the simplest, dumbest protocol possible.
> Can the PHY later handle packets that take forever to arrive?
The PHY does not care at all. It's the job of the upper layer protocols which provide QoS, like TCP and QUIC, to figure this out.
> How would this compare to, say, using the same stuff that the Ham guys use? They were doing IP over slow links decades ago.
IP works over just about any 2-way pipe including serial ports. HAMs use packet radio which uses X.25 for the data link and modem modulation for the PHY: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet_radio
How would this compare to, say, using the same stuff that the Ham guys use? They were doing IP over slow links decades ago.
And really, why use QUIC or IP at all when it's literally point-to-point traffic? Just send tagged chunks using the simplest, dumbest protocol possible.