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Thread ID: 40964 2003-12-25 07:15:00 MSN Messenger Statistics Wanted (Or any IM Program / Network) Chilling_Silently (228) Press F1
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202995 2003-12-25 07:15:00 Greetings

Im just curious.

Has anybody tried anything like this:

Connected to MSN Messenger appearing offline, and done nothing else on the net, leaving it for an hour or so, and at the end of that hour seeing how much data has been transferred?

...Im just curious as to how much something like that would use (Obviously it would different between users with different amounts of contacts signing in and out etc, but yeah..).

At a guess-timate, say 500kb an hour?

Anybody have some concrete stats?

Cheers


Chill.
Chilling_Silently (228)
202996 2003-12-25 10:48:00 I have been connected for around 2 hrs and have not talked to anyone.

Trillian usage is as follows:
205.118.12.52:5190
Bytes In 139882
Bytes Out 58459

baym-cs101.msgr.hotmail.com:1863
Bytes In 57504
Bytes Out 22737
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202997 2003-12-25 22:07:00 I use Messenger all the time and my system is quiet if I am not using it. zqwerty (97)
202998 2003-12-25 22:10:00 > I use Messenger all the time and my system is quiet
> if I am not using it.

I use aMSN which is a Linux clone of MSN Messenger.

Simply put, Ive set it to alert me whenever Joe Bloggs changes status, goes offline, changes name etc. I get alerts every 20-30 seconds most of the time!

Aside from that, a user has to simply open a chat window with you for a connection to be made to your system. aMSN shows this window as soon as the connection is made, regardless of if the contact is actually chatting with you or not.

Im sure it must use a good 500kb-1mb an hour for me (I have just over 100 contacts admittedly)!
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