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I'm considering of having my internet connection changed to one that bills me by the amount of data I'm transferring. Thus it is imperative for me to know how much data my normal array of programs will be exchanging.

So, how much data will a basic mIRC-client be sending and receiving with some five channels open? Even rough estimates will do if that's all you have.

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Anywhere from ~1kb/day to ~1gb/day. The information you gave isn't nearly sufficient to determine this. Does the 5 channels have 2 users on them? Or do they have 1000 users on them? Do the users in these channels talk alot? Or are these channels full of idlers? Do you talk alot? Or do you idle?

Even that is just an extremely small subset of the questions we'd need answers to to give you an accurate answer.

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I apologize for the vague set of data I have presented you with. You could have made some basic assumptions about it though. I will now set the example case more in detail.

Let's assume the usage is built up from these mentioned five channels using a basic mIRC client. The total amount of users from all channels combined is around 250(100, 100, 25, 15 plus random users). While in IRC, the person in question would participate actively in at least one channel, sending in commentary with an average length of some 22 characters/comment with an average speed of 1 comment/10 seconds. Other users talking would amount to an average of 1 comment/5 seconds with average lines of 15 characters/line.

Thus:

Input: 22 characters every 10 seconds plus additional "ping", "whois", "mode" etc. lines.
Output: 15 characters every five seconds plus additional "join", "part", "topic" etc. lines.

Such total activity could be described as active chatting. No DCC or such features would be used in this example calculation.

Can you now make anything of the task?

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How about you do some real life testing to see exactly how much data mIRC transmits and receives in one day.

Type /debug on and make sure you delete debug.log from your mirc directory. at the end of the day, check the size of your new debug log. This log contains every byte of data that was transmitted between mIRC and the server. Only thing to note is that each line contains an extra 3 bytes of data that wasn't transmitted over the server, little -> and <- arrows to indicate the direction of traffic.

You can calculate the exact size to the byte with this little script.
//echo -a $calc($file(debug.log).size - $lines(debug.log) * 3)

Hope this simulation helps.
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#25661 25/05/03 10:29 AM
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Thanks, that sure would help. All I need to do now is to find someplace where I can set up a working mIRC client. At home that's not an option due to the limited ports of my connection. I guess one of my friends can help.

Thanks again for the great help.


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