Why is TCP more reliable than UDP
https://www.ques10.com/p/11133/how-is-tcp-better-than-udp-explain-services-offe-1/ TCP is better than UDP because of following reasons: TCP is Reliable as it provides reliability of delivery of packets to the receiver while UDP is Non-reliable and does not give information about the packets. TCP is Connection oriented it means connection is to be setup before data is sent that is done in form of 3-way handshake while UDP is Connectionless. TCP provides flow control and error control characteristics while UDP doesn't provide it. TCP gives guarantee that a packet will reach on the destination without any duplication and the order of data will also be same.