Shoutbox and Host

[reaver]

I whant to install shoutbox but in one place on internet they say that shoutbox spend to much bandwidth.They didnt say in KB or MB (i dont belive that spend GB).

I install DVZ Shoutbox and if someone can tell me how much bandwidth spend one active Shoutbox?

I am not a website guru,i have Forum becose Mybb its very simple and easy to use (thanx to people who made it) so maybe my cuestion is nooby but i realy whant to know!!


Thanx!!!

[ArneVD]

What are you asking for?
How much KB, MB a shoutbox takes?

[Devilshakerz]

Can you post a link to your forum or provide the average and peak number of users online?
I'm pretty sure that DVZ Shoutbox is the most optimal AJAX-based shoutbox for MyBB. A rough estimate of:

• 10 users online
  
• during 1 hour
  
• update interval of 5 seconds (default)
  
• new message every 10 seconds
  

gives ~1.2 MB, which is about the same as two index page visits in terms of bandwidth used.