User talk:Jane Kruch/DNS vs IP vsMAC

Notes/ideas/questions on the table
Hello Jane. I wanted to draw your attention onto the fact that your essay/table should compar IP and MAC with DNS, not TCP. Also, to easier understand your rows, I would recommend you to add another column. This column could then mark the first row as pros and the second one as cons. Some notes about the content of the table cells (in no particular order): have a nice day, --Onse (discuss • contribs) 09:30, 6 November 2013 (UTC)
 * "Using MAC, internet providers can easily perform blocking of access". If you are talking about ISPs, I would not necessarily agree with you. For me, this would be more a negative point for TCP or IP. These two protocols allow very precise methods of content filtering (e.g. prevent access to an IP address or content on a specific port). MAC itself would be of much lower interest for ISPs. Without inspecting the IP- or TCP-data, ISPs could only drop packets in general for specific hosts.
 * You write that MAC "provides unique identification". I would add that this uniqueness is only a theoretic concept.
 * "to share the same set of wires.". I think, you should talk about the same network as IP can also be applied on wireless network.
 * "Small size of the package". I'm a bit unsure about what you mean when stating this. Do you mind to elaborate this a bit?
 * "Unreliable transmisson". Personally speaking, I would not see this as a negative feature. First of all, MAC does not guarantee the arrival of packages either. Second, this is also a feature depending on the application of the protocol. For UDP, this is crucial.

TCP and video
"Slow transmission. It will be very problematic while talking about video transmission." I think most of the time you use exactly TCP when downloading videos via browsers (youtube, etc) or p2p (torrent) =)

TCP is slower then UDP (which is used for live streaming like in skype). --oleamm (discuss • contribs) 21:55, 6 November 2013 (UTC)