Stephenie Hamilton wrote: > It wasn't my isp...it was the broadcasting servers that were full...
The multicast servers were not full. They are never full, because the multicast protocols are designed not scale indefinitely. They do that by sending out one stream in such a way that routers and switches that support multicast can duplicate that stream for the required amount of recipients. We have done tests were litterally hundreds of clients received a full MPEG-1 stream (1.5 Mbps, VHS quality) each, while the server was just a normal PC with a miserable 10 Mbit NIC. The problem is that all the equipment between the sending and the receiving parties has to support multicast. All the big boys (Cisco, HP, Juniper, Foundry, RedBack etc.) do support it, but despite that very few ISP's enable it. And that is why you need to complain :) Jochem ______________________________________________________________________ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
