pbcommun
07-08-2005, 06:50 PM
Ive heard that php chats use alot of bandwidth...is this true?
What about java chats? Will they use alot of bandwidth?
philip
07-09-2005, 09:15 PM
That's a very good question...
I would like to know that as well.
I use a java chat on my site; I have this feeling that it uses much more bandwidth than I want it to.
Well, it is not true :)
Both PHP and Java chats themselves does not use a lot of bandwidth. The more users are chatting at the same time, the more bandwidth is used. It does not depend on the chat engine type (or at least the difference is not noticable) but on how much it is used.
If you have a PHP chat for example, and nobody uses it, it will consume no bandwidth at all :)