In multicast networks, where a single source disseminates information to multiple destinations concurrently, network coding can significantly improve reliability and bandwidth utilisation.

However, fixing multicast isn't as straightforward, especially if you've added your IoT devices to a separate network to keep your home network safer.

Routing IP multicast packets makes unicast routing – getting a unicast packet from its source to its destination, across a constantly changing landscape of interconnected networks – look like ...