Where Is Packet Lunchbox?

Understanding udp packet in real life situation?

• suppose i am listening to the radio on the internet...(using udp) 1 packet is sent from the radio server to my machine.Does this mean that for 10 minutes=1packet?? or does this mean for 10 minutes=i can have 10 packets? and packet 5 might be lost, it will skip packet 5 and send packet 6...meaning i will not be able to listen to that small part in packet 5 but will receive the data after packet 5. please clarify this to me... thanks beforehand.

• Answer:

  Realistic implementations use many packets per second, typically 15-20 per second. The protocol is carefully designed to tolerate packet loss. Rather than each packet encoding a specific chunk of audio, each packet actually encodes a small part of many chunks of audio. So losing a single packet will actually cause a slight drop in quality for a long period of time rather than a complete loss of a short period of time.