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Is AIM Really a Bandwidth Hog?

Posted by Cliff on from the a-danger-to-those-with-small-pipes dept.

Crispen asks: "A mess of schools, especially K-12 schools in the US, have banned instant messaging, claiming that it is a huge bandwidth hog. Is it? If you block ports 4443 (images) and 5190 (file transfers), how much bandwidth does AIM really take?"

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  1. Re:Not Bandwidth - Tracking and Filtering by skaffen42 · · Score: 5, Funny

    The bandwidth use is negligible .. especially in these days of cheap bandwidth for education (we have a full DS3 45Mbps for a 7500 student district).

    Holy crap! So what you are actually saying here is that starting a school is the solution to all my broadband problems?

    :)

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