I used the multicast streams when Easynet were on an old trial. Worked a treat.
Also, I believe the multicast streams were opened up to all ISPs for a few days when the BBC was experiencing high traffic after the 7/7 London bombings, which was useful. J -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Bowden Sent: 10 April 2007 09:22 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: RE: [backstage] Multicast Trial > As far as I understand it, it was more a case of the BBC (and > ITV) trialing broadcasting via the multicast infrastructure - moreso > than it was a trial of consumers actually watching the content. I was > on a ja.net provider for an entire year and not once could I actually > watch the multicast content - due to the University's unwillingness to > update their own internal network to be multicast-enabled. I got > multicast working ONCE, on a neighbour's ISP > - but he was paying a LOT for his access, and as a business customer > of their he actually worked with the isp to get multicast enabled. My > parents are on Zen, and even though that's one of the > apparently-supported multicast ISPs for the > trial: no luck. I'm on Plus.net at home and whilst they were supposed to be one of the ISPs who was taking part in the trial, it never seemed to be working at Plus.net's end when I looked. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
