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animas
Bandwidth Cost with Chat...

  • 2005/5/15 7:01

  • animas

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I have seen several flash chat, java chat, normal chat etc.
Some are IRC supported.

I was wondering which kind of chat programs cost my site bandwidth and which does not or less?
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Dave_L
Re: Bandwidth Cost with Chat...

  • 2005/5/15 12:59

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A Java IRC applets runs on the client (user), so the only bandwidth incurred is the download of the applet at the start of the chat session. There would also be the traffic between the client and the IRC server, but unless you're hosting the IRC server, that wouldn't affect you.

I don't know how Flash chat works. If that's also IRC, then the above should apply.
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animas
Re: Bandwidth Cost with Chat...

  • 2005/5/15 19:46

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How do I host a IRC server?
Do the IRC Chat modules of XOOPS work without hosting IRC server?
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siweb
Re: Bandwidth Cost with Chat...

  • 2005/5/15 20:30

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You don't have to use IRC server. Try FlashChat from http://www.tufat.com or some other chat module.
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Nettroll
Re: Bandwidth Cost with Chat...

  • 2005/5/16 1:36

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Its a perfect an nice Addon.

Ein super genialer Chat.

You can see here in action.
;o)
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m0nty
Re: Bandwidth Cost with Chat...

  • 2005/5/16 21:06

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if you want to host your own irc server, then i would contact your host 1st.. as many shared hosts will not allow them to be hosted due to resource hogging.. and if used your account will likely be suspended.. a dedicated server would give you that freedom but is expensive..

it is safer to go with 1 of the clients instead of using your own server as a host..
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animas
Re: Bandwidth Cost with Chat...

  • 2005/5/18 8:38

  • animas

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Thanks.
The problem is identifying the clients.
Say for flash chat people talked about. Is it a client.

The code at http://www.icq.com/panels/ircqnet, if I use it will it work as a client?
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Dave_L
Re: Bandwidth Cost with Chat...

  • 2005/5/18 10:14

  • Dave_L

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It looks like a client. I don't know if people using it need to have their own ICQ accounts.

On my site I use the PJIRC, an open-source IRC java applet client.
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animas
Re: Bandwidth Cost with Chat...

  • 2005/5/18 17:59

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Thanks.
Many windows XP users have difficulty over opening java chats. The ICQ one is flash and doesn't need ICQ account.

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