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Posted by Ron Head on 03/13/07 02:37
Thanks very much AMUN. Your reply was most appreciated.
"AMUN" <spamblocker@bell.net> wrote in message news:et52cr$j9g$1@aioe.org...
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> "Ron Head" <ronhead@iinet.net.au> wrote in message
> news:45f55bf3$0$8371$5a62ac22@per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au...
>>I want to open a chat room in winmx. Can anyone tell me if it would be
>>heavy or light on gb usage? It would be on for about 15 hrs per day but
>>for a lot of that time would be idle with little chat. Is usage
>>determined by time, activity, or just a set usage for running it?
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>> Thanks in advance..
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> You do realize you have to be a primary to run a chat, so you do need a
> bit more bandwidth.
> I wouldn't be concerned about the extra load a chat would add, as it's
> only text.
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> But to give you an idea,...a normal full letter page of text is about 8kb.
> The normal chat post is a sentence or two,....so only a few bytes.
> A small MP3 is about 3000 kb
> So normal file up/downloading is going to take far more resources than any
> chat.
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