Paul Pietromonaco writes: > Basically - they used multicast for all of their TV channels. This > effectively meant that you could watch TV over your fiber optic > system without losing any of the bandwidth you were paying for. I > know - I used to fire up the three Prism boxes I had, and then run > network speed tests.
Multicast doesn't save bandwidth for *you*, it only saves bandwidth for the network service providers that can consolidate traffic for multicast customers. You still have to receive the same amount of data for multicast as you would for unicast of the same quality. -- 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/26475.16387.377769.5491%40hexadecimal.uoregon.edu.
