Comments on: Airport: What is the Multicast Rate?

By: Dan Moulding

Dan Moulding — Wed, 13 May 2009 09:20:51 +0000

I have to wonder if you even know what multicast means. Multicast is a special category of data stream. The multicast rate option in Apple Airports only affects whether the Airport base station transmits *multicast streams*, given the data rate that currently connected clients support. If *no* connected client can maintain the selected data rate, then the base station simply does not transmit multicast streams. It has nothing to do with making, maintaining, or breaking the wireless connection, and in particular it has no effect on non-multicast traffic (i.e. the vast majority of data that flows over the typical wireless LAN). Telling people that lowering this value will increase their effective range is very misleading.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 04:19:41 +0000

This article is a load of BS. Please dont misguide people.

By: pinayseotest

pinayseotest — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 07:57:56 +0000

Multicasthastigheden sats er den hidtidige plan, at en WiFi-enhed skal være i stand til at levere med henblik på at oprette forbindelse til routeren. Lavere multicast satser betyde svagere, længere signaler får lov til at forbindelsen. Højere multicast satser betyde, at kun et tæt, stærke signaler er tilladt.