At 10:51 AM 7/9/2002 -0400, Leo Bicknell wrote:
>In a message written on Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 10:39:35AM -0400, Jared Mauch >wrote: > > They aren't aware of the savings they can see, consider the > > savings too small, don't know how to configure, can't configure, > > break the config, etc.. the list goes on and on. > >Speaking from a provider who used to run multicast, and now doesn't: > >Customers don't want it. > >I can count our customer requests for multicast on both hands for >the last two years. Of those, only one thought it was important, >the rest were just playing with it. In fact, pretty much the only >place we see it anymore is on RFP's from educational groups. > >My own view is that customers don't want it, because end users >don't have it. Dial up users will probably never get multicast. Yahoo/Broadcast.com pushed this pretty heavily. MS's own media player supports multicast, so there definitely a *lot* of clients out there. http://broadcast.yahoo.com/home.html There are a list of providers supporting multicast in conjunction with Yahoo/Broadcast.com found at: http://www.broadcast.com/mcisp/ I see quite a few cable and dialup providers on there ( and I work for one of 'em... ) To find out if you are viewing via unicast/multicast in Windows Media Player, the option is View->Statistics, then in the Network section... -Chris -- \\\|||/// \ StarNet Inc. \ Chris Parker \ ~ ~ / \ WX *is* Wireless! \ Director, Engineering | @ @ | \ http://www.starnetwx.net \ (847) 963-0116 oOo---(_)---oOo--\------------------------------------------------------ \ Wholesale Internet Services - http://www.megapop.net
