All things related to multicast

[Bill Owens <>]

On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 04:07:30PM +0000, Julian Y Koh wrote:
> Greetings all,
> 
> We've gotten a report from Notre Dame that our CSPAN feeds at 
> <http://www.i2-multicast.northwestern.edu/> are not watchable.  They work 
> for us here on campus, but can anyone provide some external verification 
> one way or the other?  Thanks in advance!!

Looks great as always here, once I installed today's Java update ;) I had 
poked at it a couple of days ago and it was fine then as well.

> On a wider note, the "Whither multicast" thread from a little bit ago was 
> interesting, but the specific question I have for the group is: would it be 
> a huge hardship if our CSPAN streams went away?

It's probably only a couple of times a year that I tune in, usually as a test 
signal; I like that it's always there. But realistically, we have cable TV 
here at the office. I wouldn't miss CSPAN on my desktop overly much. 

Bill.