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davidshq 
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Posted: 08 January 2004 at 9:50am |
Hi Folks,
Say I have a chat room in Conquer Chat and I have 25 people in it and it refreshes every 5 secs. and the size of the page being refreshed is 10 kb then every 5 secs. I'm using 250 kb of transfer....Wow, that's a lot. So, I'm about to hold a chat in my chat room with an author of a Civil War book soon and I'm expecting a few people...I'm using ASP b/c I can't access Java b/c I'm behind a firewall...Any recommendations on how to lower the amount of data being transferred? If I could get Java to connect behind a firewall that would be nice.
Respectfully,
David.
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Posted: 08 January 2004 at 11:15am |
Make sure the page being refreshed:
- Uses a style sheet
- Outputted HTML code has all tabbing removed from it and excess space bars (compressed HTML)
- Does'nt have any images on it
That's about all you can do really.
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Posted: 15 January 2004 at 8:45am |
Gullanian,
Thanks for the feedback. Do you by any chance know of any languages that use less bandwidth than HTML (e.g. Java, Flash, etc.)?
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David.
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Posted: 15 January 2004 at 9:46am |
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You just said them really! Java and Flash would be the most suitable languages for a chat room online.
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Posted: 15 January 2004 at 12:36pm |
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Gullanian,
Could you by any chance explain to me what the technical differences are between a Java/Flash chat room and an ASP/HTML chat room that make such differences in bandwidth, etc.?
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David.
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Posted: 19 January 2004 at 3:08am |
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A java applet or flash is software that is downloaded to your PC once
the first time you access it instead of refreshing a page every 20
seconds. It would only transfer the new strings instead of the whole
chat and can compress it. You can also use ActiveX controls but they
only work on IE.
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Posted: 19 January 2004 at 5:19pm |
Fernan,
Thanks. :-) That makes sense. I guess I'll start looking for a Flash chat room.
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David.
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