GoogleTalk Bandwidth

[lord_spaceman]

Hi Guys

Does anyone know how much bandwidth GoogleTalk eats up, say on an hourly basis ? And does it eat ANY bandwidth if left idle (not chatting to anyone, although connected) ?

Your help will be appreciated.

 

[Elfreako]

Are you reffering to text or voice chat?

 

[Vox Populi Vox Dei]

Lord Spaceman: Most, if not all applications that connect to a server will use up bandwidth when idle. GTalk is a very lightweight application so will use less bandwidth than say, MSN.

On the Voice side, it uses the same amount as Skype [4Kb-6Kb/sec]

 

[lord_spaceman]

If I am using it strictly for text (no voice), roughly about how much bandwidth would it eat in an hour ?

 

[bwana]

If I am using it strictly for text (no voice), roughly about how much bandwidth would it eat in an hour ?

That depends entirely on how much text you send and receive plus whatever overheads there are.

 

[DAE_JA_VOO]

Dude, GTalk uses SO little bandwidth for text it's not even funny. You wont even notice it...

 

[Syndyre]

I'm guessing if it uses 100Kb for text in an hour it'd be a lot, used it before and it seemed next to nothing.

EDIT: Its based on the Jabber/XMPP protocol so if you're looking for exact specs you could probably Google that.

 

[mic_y]

honestly, no matter how much a person chats via text, I really doubt that it would have any tangible impact on bandwidth. Any text chat, be it IRC or an instant messenger will use hardly any bandwidth...

 

[DAE_JA_VOO]

Think about it. You would have to write a few PAGES of text to make up a few kilobytes, so if you used GTalk ALL DAY, EVERYDAY, it MIGHT come to a couple of MB a MONTH, so seriously, dont even worry about it...