Question about Internet connection

[Lord_Wezel]

I know that lacewing works with high-speed Internet. I was wondering if it would work with a slower/dial-up connection also. I have some friends that don't have high-speed and I was going to try to make a chat application to share with them.

[Ravenius]

It's not about Lacewing, it's about your coding.

But yeah, a chat application will most likely work no matter how slow their internet connection is.

[James]

Yes, that'll be fine (although obviously if you send a lot of data, it'll take a long time to arrive...)

[Lord_Wezel]

Yeah, it would just send text messages (I might even put a limit to increase speed). Thanks for the help.

Also, is there a way to tell how many bytes of data is being sent? What I mean is, can you tell by 'what' letters are used or how 'long' the message is? I was just curious if it would be worth while to put a limit on the length of messages sent.

[LB]

The number of bytes being sent is usually just the number of letters, plus whatever header and footer information Lacewing uses to specify the subchannel, type of message, etc.

[Lord_Wezel]

Ok, so how many letters do you think would be good to limit the message size for a user with dial-up connection? Normal limits are like 100-160, I think. Do you think it would be worth it to limit the text size then? Thanks for the info!

[LB]

You don't need to limit the number of letters at all. Unless their connection is super slow and only sends 100 bytes per second, I don't think you're going to have any problems at all. And this message here, which is quite long for a simple chat message, is only 282 characters long.