[clug] Trump Telstra once and for all

Sam Couter sam at couter.id.au
Wed Oct 11 09:17:27 GMT 2006


Andrew Goodall <andrew at fumpet.net> wrote:
> TransACT imposed a two-stream limit on the ISG a couple of years ago  
> in the interests of limiting access network bandwidth contention.  

Err... The video streams are multicast. How does limiting the number of
streams to each end-point limit the bandwidth required?

I figured the two-stream limit must have been an anti-piracy measure, or
a "pay us more money to watch more TV because we can" measure.
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