--On Monday, March 18, 2002 08:17 -0800 "Kevin C. Almeroth" <almeroth@cs.ucsb.edu> wrote: > BTW, slightly better than just not showing up is watching the > multicast feed. > > In fact, the more people who choose to participate this way > will indeed serve to make a justification to make this better, > i.e. real-time feedback from the network, etc. > > And before anyone starts whining about not having multicast access, > the alternative is to send out unicast streams. And of course this > creates an immense cost in terms of additional bandwidth needed out > of the hotel. Point taken, but as an individual contributor I don't think I'm going to have much luck talking to SBC/PacBell... and I don't think individual contributors on the end of 56k dialup are going to be able to get much either.