Hey @SomeFixItDude, thanks for following up.
If you check out github’s network view, you can see just how much amazing work is getting done on the firmware since we hired @BDub & @mdma:
UDP and TCP issues are wrapped up in a lot of the refactoring and fixes we’re doing lately. We’ll be releasing new firmware with a new architecture in the next week or so. After that release, please test again and ping that issue with your results. With 76 open issues in the firmware repo, we need people advocating for the issues that are most important to them.
Also, of course, just as a reminder, it’s open source, so anyone can work on a fix, not just internal spark folks. 
Cheers!