Multicasting (bandwidth)

themf_at_graffiti.net
Date: 05/31/05 

Date: 30 May 2005 16:02:28 -0700

Hello,

If there is a server which is multicasting to the Internet, does it use
separate bandwidth for each connection? i.e. if one stream is taking
say, 5k, will a 1000 streams take 5000k, and therefore use all the
bandwidth I have from my provider?
Or, does ONE packet leave my host and then split across every router
necessary to get to all the hosts requesting a connection? This is what
my understanding of "multicast" was.

Thanks very much.

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