Good examples which would of saved heaps of bandwidth are KiwiFlatmates (in NZ) and Bigbrother (in Austrailia)
Having 1 Multicast streaming coming into an ISP, instead of 100's watching the same thing would of been great. The only thing is, they have to broadcast multicast and be connected to the "mbone" in the 1st place
IHUG Hosted KiwiFlatmates, We were very keen to multicast the streams to save our bandwidth, but we didn't really have the proccess's in place to handle it. Currently we multicast bFM and george FM streams (not sure if they are still working cause we were only playing around, and now that David Robb no longer works for us, its prolly not even maintained) We were also in the middle of testing multicast over modem at the time. In the end we enabled multicast by default for our customers but had to turn it off due to the fact the max's sent packets (pretty sure they were igmp) every so often causing peoples idle timeouts to fail. How many ISP's have enabled multicast for thier dialup users? IMHO Multicast is cool, but pointless for an ISP unless dialup users are enabled for multicast. - Simon Simon Allard (Senior Tool Monkey) IHUG Ph (09) 358-5067 Email: simon.allard(a)staff.ihug.co.nz These have been my opinions. If you don't like them, think up your own. - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog