On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 16:38:12 -0800, "Eliot Lear" <lear@xxxxxxxxx> said: > > As long as we're bitching about the network: would it be possible to > > start doing some unicast streaming of sessions in the future? Access > > to multicast hasn't gotten significantly better the past decade, but > > streaming over unicast is now routine as the codecs are so much > > better these days, as is typical access bandwidth. I'll happily take > > 40 kbps MPEG-4 audio only; the video is so badly out of sync that it > > is unwatchable most of the time anyway. > > Will you happily pay for the privilege? FWIW, I would not mind paying. My ISP has been filtering ICMP for the past 6 months, and it was a pain just getting to the right person who knows the reason. I don't think I want to even try talking to them about multicast...... CP