Posted by AMUN on 03/13/07 02:30

"Ron Head" <ronhead@iinet.net.au> wrote in message
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>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?
>
> Thanks in advance..

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.

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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