Hi.
That was a poor choice of words on my part and not an accurate statement. I did try UDP and different protocols several times in the past but eventually I gave up and assumed my UDP issue was permanent so I should have said "I couldn't use UDP the last time I checked". Now that I think about it I had not tried UDP since I built my current computer so it's probably been over a year since I tried using UDP.
So far my connection on UDP is still stable and I haven't had any of the issues I had in the past like massive amounts of packet errors or almost instant connection stalls when I started a torrent. I know my ISP changed something in the past because all my issues started when they increased their speed and pushed new firmware and nothing changed on my end. I'm not sure if my ISP changed something that is making UDP usable again or if something changed in Eddie or if it's my new hardware that is much better and based on a $700 Gygabyte X570 AORUS XTREME motherboard with an Intel 1gb network adapter?
In any case my connection seems to be stable and my speed almost doubled so thanks for suggesting UDP, I'm not sure how long it would have taken me to ever try it again. It's still only been about 24 hours so nothing is definitive yet and I'll report back if I have any resets that seem unnecessary. If my connection makes it more than a week I would consider the problem resolved and I'll report that here.
Thanks again for your reply and suggestion.