As a self-confessed football obsessive, I need to be able to access live broadcasts of the top games wherever I am. Sometimes its not always possible to find somewhere that shows the particular match I want to watch but thanks to technological advancements I can now watch almost any match I wish through a live football stream.
With the help of the internet and some networking facilities, I am able to watch streaming live football via my computer in the office and my laptop should I be stuck in a hotel room somewhere. Being able to watch any one of a number of football matches being broadcast on a particular day is all well and good, but this article tries to explain how its done for the more inquisitive natures out there.
To understand how live football streams work, you first need to understand a little bit about networking. In its most simple form, networking is one computer exchanging data with another computer. To be really simplistic, there isnt a lot of difference between this and mailing a letter.
The first computer addresses a piece of information to another computer and then sends it across the cable that connects computers to one another. The...