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Re:How the BBC and ITV are fixing delays on World Cup live s... by tinus_hn on Saturday July 14, 2018 @04:28AM (#17529399)
Multicast works great across the internet but it fails because everyone uses NAT in their home.
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Re:How the BBC and ITV are fixing delays on World Cup live s... by isostatic on Sunday July 15, 2018 @05:58AM (#17534565)
There's issues with wifi from memory.

Not sure why multicast wouldn't work from behind nat, assuming the router supported it.

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