Forgive me if I am wrong, but multicast seems like it wouldn't work on the internet at large. The server still has to send the packets somewhere. If the server sends one stream to the broadcast address of my subnet, my cable or dsl subnet is going to be flooded by the traffic. I definitely can see applications in a business setting though where you have the ability to configure the network so that multicast would work very nicely though. Maybe if the ISP's did some fancy subnetting, but getting isps to get organized on anything wont happen... Multicast just seems like the ip version of broadcast tv to me. Maybe when we all have fiber :)
-- Jon mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Thursday, August 1, 2002, 9:31:50 PM, you wrote: JvD> Sean A Corfield wrote: >> On Thursday, August 1, 2002, at 06:14 , Jochem van Dieten wrote: >> >>>Not necessarily. Multicast could very well be the real bandwidth saver >>>here (and Flash doesn't support it). >> >> >> Read about the FlashCom Server: >> http://www.macromedia.com/software/flashcom/ JvD> I tried the following: JvD> http://search.atomz.com/search/?sp-a=sp1001395b&sp-p=any&sp-q=multicast JvD> Please enlighten me. JvD> Jochem ______________________________________________________________________ Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
