> Multicast was supposed to do things like this, but I have rarely seen it used for any sort of "visible" client application. Well multicast is not possible on

> Multicast was supposed to do things like this, but I have rarely seen it used for any sort of "visible" client application. Well multicast is not possible on internet so I guess that's why you don't see it often. In private network centric protocols though (e.g. finance), multicast is ubiquitous.