When I hear about football games being streamed (such as on Christmas, tomorrow), and the fact that apparently a Thursday night game took 30% of the Internet bandwidth (however that is measured :-)), I wonder if somehow the Multicast Protocol (which I read about decades ago) is not being used. From what I remember, it's like shouting to everyone (say UDP), rather than requiring handshaking with everyone individually (like TCP).
I guess if you want to personalize ads you need the extra bandwidth, but it seems incredibly wasteful, IMHO. -Doug Elrod ([email protected]) waiting for someone to reinvent "Television" ;-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "World News Now Discussion List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/wnndl/2094388218.3736762.1735073722833%40mail.yahoo.com.
