Re: Multicasting (bandwidth)
From: Solbu (solbu_at_ugyldig.start.no)
Date: 05/31/05
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Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 04:26:43 +0200
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themf@graffiti.net tried to express the following opinion:
> 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?
No, that is called unicast.
> 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.
That is multicast.
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