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Recommendations for Multicast Groups

For guaranteed delivery, we recommend keeping multicast and broadcast groups to a maximum of 50 computers per group. A reliable network can meet the demand of a multicast or broadcast transfer if the number of computers per group is below 50. However, if these groups are larger than 50, the network drops more UDP packets, therefore causing more retries. As the retry count increases, network efficiency decreases.