How do Jungle Monkey channels work?
Jungle Monkey channels are built upon multicast. Multicast lets you send one thing to many computers at once. Computers join a “multicast group” and can then send to or receive from that group. The alternative is to use unicast, which lets you send one thing to one computer. However, if you needed to send something to multiple computers you would need to send it multiple times. A channel in Jungle Monkey is a multicast group. People send announcements for their files to the group. Announcements are sent periodly, so it may take a while before you see announcements for a channel you just joined.
