diff --git a/crates/punktfunk-core/src/transport/udp/mod.rs b/crates/punktfunk-core/src/transport/udp/mod.rs
index c7d6d427..cb58ba85 100644
--- a/crates/punktfunk-core/src/transport/udp/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/punktfunk-core/src/transport/udp/mod.rs
@@ -45,12 +45,20 @@ const RECV_BUF: usize = MAX_DATAGRAM_BYTES + 1;
 ///   died at full rate over WiFi). Same lossy-drop contract as `WouldBlock`; FEC + the next frame
 ///   recover. Asynchronous network-path blips (`ENETUNREACH`/`EHOSTUNREACH`/`ENETDOWN`/`EHOSTDOWN`)
 ///   are droppable for the same reason a stale ICMP is.
+/// - Windows `WSAENOBUFS` (10055): the exact analogue of unix `ENOBUFS` — a high-bitrate keyframe
+///   burst (one `WSASendMsg` USO super-buffer is up to ~512 segments ≈ 700 KB) momentarily exhausts
+///   the socket send buffer / AFD non-paged pool, and Winsock reports `WSAENOBUFS`, which Rust maps
+///   to `ErrorKind::Uncategorized` (so the `WouldBlock` arm misses it, exactly like unix `ENOBUFS`).
+///   Without treating it as transient a Windows host tears the whole session down under load
+///   (observed live: `native::stream` "send failed — stopping stream" on a paced video burst). Same
+///   lossy-drop contract; FEC + the next frame recover. The `WSAENET*`/`WSAEHOST*` family is the
+///   Windows counterpart of the droppable unix network-path blips above.
 fn is_transient_io(e: &std::io::Error) -> bool {
     use std::io::ErrorKind::{ConnectionRefused, ConnectionReset, WouldBlock};
     if matches!(e.kind(), WouldBlock | ConnectionRefused | ConnectionReset) {
         return true;
     }
-    // `ENOBUFS` & friends have no stable `ErrorKind`, so match the raw errno (unix only).
+    // `ENOBUFS` & friends have no stable `ErrorKind`, so match the raw errno.
     #[cfg(unix)]
     {
         matches!(
@@ -62,7 +70,20 @@ fn is_transient_io(e: &std::io::Error) -> bool {
                 | Some(libc::EHOSTDOWN)
         )
     }
-    #[cfg(not(unix))]
+    // Windows Winsock codes (WSAE*), raw like the sibling `uso_unsupported`. WSAEWOULDBLOCK (10035)
+    // already maps to `ErrorKind::WouldBlock` above, so it isn't repeated here.
+    #[cfg(windows)]
+    {
+        matches!(
+            e.raw_os_error(),
+            Some(10055)   // WSAENOBUFS    — tx queue / send buffer full (the dominant high-bitrate drop)
+                | Some(10051) // WSAENETUNREACH
+                | Some(10065) // WSAEHOSTUNREACH
+                | Some(10050) // WSAENETDOWN
+                | Some(10064) // WSAEHOSTDOWN
+        )
+    }
+    #[cfg(not(any(unix, windows)))]
     {
         false
     }
@@ -324,6 +345,53 @@ mod tests {
         }
     }
 
+    /// The raw-errno tx-queue-full / network-blip codes have no stable `ErrorKind` (they surface as
+    /// `Uncategorized`), so they only get caught by the platform `raw_os_error()` arms. A burst that
+    /// momentarily exhausts the send buffer must stay a lossy drop, never a teardown — this is the
+    /// regression guard for the Windows `WSAENOBUFS` (10055) session crash and the unix `ENOBUFS`
+    /// wlan-driver case. Gated per platform because a code is only classified on its own OS.
+    #[test]
+    fn transient_io_covers_raw_tx_queue_and_path_codes() {
+        use std::io::Error;
+
+        #[cfg(unix)]
+        {
+            for code in [
+                libc::ENOBUFS,
+                libc::ENETUNREACH,
+                libc::EHOSTUNREACH,
+                libc::ENETDOWN,
+                libc::EHOSTDOWN,
+            ] {
+                assert!(
+                    is_transient_io(&Error::from_raw_os_error(code)),
+                    "unix errno {code} should be transient"
+                );
+            }
+            // A genuine failure with no stable ErrorKind must still tear down.
+            assert!(
+                !is_transient_io(&Error::from_raw_os_error(libc::EACCES)),
+                "EACCES must stay fatal"
+            );
+        }
+
+        #[cfg(windows)]
+        {
+            // WSAENOBUFS / WSAENETUNREACH / WSAEHOSTUNREACH / WSAENETDOWN / WSAEHOSTDOWN.
+            for code in [10055, 10051, 10065, 10050, 10064] {
+                assert!(
+                    is_transient_io(&Error::from_raw_os_error(code)),
+                    "WSA code {code} should be transient"
+                );
+            }
+            // WSAEACCES (10013) — a real failure that must stay fatal.
+            assert!(
+                !is_transient_io(&Error::from_raw_os_error(10013)),
+                "WSAEACCES must stay fatal"
+            );
+        }
+    }
+
     /// `send_batch` delivers a whole frame's worth of packets over real loopback UDP — exercising
     /// the `sendmmsg` path on Linux (the scalar-loop default elsewhere). 100 × 200 B = 20 KB fits
     /// the socket buffer, so loopback is lossless and every packet must arrive intact + in order.