[Eiwatah4]

> In my opinion, most of TCP's semantics arise not out of the network, but rather the data itself. I can't have packets getting lost in the middle of an SSH session: it just doesn't make sense. My keystrokes are a stream of data that must be in order, and must be delivered: thus TCP.

Mosh[1] is basically (a better) SSH over UDP. It fares a lot better than SSH on mobile connections. It does away with hanging connections and such nonsense.

1: http://mosh.mit.edu/