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What's the best .NET communication component or protocol for very low bandwidth and intermittently connected communication (i.e.: < 10 kilobits/sec)?

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What about UDP

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Probably System.Net.Sockets.Socket. There is also a TcpClient and UdpClient in that namespace.

Mark Cidade
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yeap!, sockets is what you're looking for

sebastian
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RUDP looks pretty promising.

Sam Saffron
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You probably want a Socket and TCP/IP for the connection a very low overhead and friendly serialization format is protocoll buffers, a good .NET implementation is protobuf-net

Torbjörn Gyllebring