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no we still can't give you efficient multicasting and SCTP, best i can do is trying to stream this 4k film over the old inefficient system
climate chaenjalso big tech:
no we still can't give you efficient multicasting and SCTP, best i can do is trying to stream this 4k film over the old inefficient system
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I mostly watch 720p Youtube. For 99% of the time, I either don't notice a difference or don't care. For that 1% of the time, it's a LTT video about a TV/monitor.
@alyx they may have reused the name but traditionally multicasting in a network sense means instead of a server having a single connection to each client, the routers understand everyone to be a member of a single ongoing session.
so when you go to send a video packet instead of sending ten copies (one for each of ten viewers) you send one copy with a To: field (like e-mail) and the routers fan out the packets to one another. drastically reduces bandwidth requirements (and therefore congestion, energy use...)
it's been a solved problem for decades but ISPs never fielded the tech to use it. it's bogarted behind cable provider backhauls.
so when you go to send a video packet instead of sending ten copies (one for each of ten viewers) you send one copy with a To: field (like e-mail) and the routers fan out the packets to one another. drastically reduces bandwidth requirements (and therefore congestion, energy use...)
it's been a solved problem for decades but ISPs never fielded the tech to use it. it's bogarted behind cable provider backhauls.
although those in conjunction with something like ipfs would probably help