It's good have another VPN from a player with huge network infrastructure like Cloudflare, but the article seems to digress frequently.
>TCP, the foundational protocol of the Internet, was never designed for a mobile environment.
Packet loss due this is mentioned, but I don't see a relevance to the new VPN service; especially when the next section talks about wrap using UDP.
> We’ve built Warp around a UDP-based protocol
Other VPN providers do offer an option of choosing TCP/UDP as per usage i.e. better reliability vs faster speed.
I'm glad that it uses Wireguard, but it's likely other major VPN providers are working on a Wireguard version for their clients & so in the end it would come down to speed/price/privacy which hopefully cloudflare can compete with.
> Other VPN providers do offer an option of choosing TCP/UDP as per usage i.e. better reliability vs faster speed.
I don't think TCP-based VPNs are offered for increased reliability. They might be offered so you can run your VPN traffic in restricted scenarios, e.g. I run a VPN-ish service that uses TCP/443 by default and all connections are only outbound, so you can still use your VPN in restrictive scenarios.
Outside that, encapsulating TCP inside TCP is nothing short of a headache as you have two congestion control algorithms kicking in and one doesn't know about the other.
>TCP, the foundational protocol of the Internet, was never designed for a mobile environment.
Packet loss due this is mentioned, but I don't see a relevance to the new VPN service; especially when the next section talks about wrap using UDP.
> We’ve built Warp around a UDP-based protocol
Other VPN providers do offer an option of choosing TCP/UDP as per usage i.e. better reliability vs faster speed.
I'm glad that it uses Wireguard, but it's likely other major VPN providers are working on a Wireguard version for their clients & so in the end it would come down to speed/price/privacy which hopefully cloudflare can compete with.