[streaming] Re: Number of clients

[Jean-Paul Saman]

Benjamin PRACHT wrote:

>On Sun, Mar 28, 2004, sks at analog.tenet.res.in wrote :
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>>How many clients can connect to a VLS Linux server at a time.
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>If  you're doing  multicast, this  has  no importance,  the server  even
>doesn't know  how many  clients they  are, and the  stream is  only sent
>once.  If  doing  unicast,  the  limit will  certainly  be  the  network
>interface bandwidth.
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The network is not always the limit when doing unicast. If streaming 
from a HD then your limit will be between 10-12 streams (of 4Mbps) at 
the same time. But only if you have a fairly recent HD (no more then 2 
years old).

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Many greetings,
Jean-Paul Saman

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