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Re:How 20 mbps Internet can be slower than 8 mbps by ars on Tuesday February 03, 2009 @01:38PM (#464406)
"TCP/IP" can't actually deliver TV to everyone in the US, it only works because a minority of people are using it. We'd need a lot more capacity if everyone was going to watch that way.

Maybe multicast plus local caching could handle it.

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