How much bandwidth does an Eggdrop use?

[eam]

I'm thinking about hosting eggdrops for a few people and I was wondering how much bandwidth they use on average. They'd be loaded with otbn.tcl which is a basic channel management script and probably be in a few channels. Thanks.

[j0n]

It actually isn't that much... here is what I use

Hub bot (not connected to irc)
Online for 109 days, 00:49 (background)

Traffic since last restart
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Botnet:
  out: 19.68 MBytes (195.64 KBytes today)
   in: 15.89 MBytes (191.24 KBytes today)
Partyline:
  out: 457.60 KBytes (2.21 KBytes today)
   in: 59.96 KBytes (24 Bytes today)
Transfer.mod:
  out: 3.27 MBytes (0 Bytes today)
   in: 7.65 KBytes (0 Bytes today)
Misc:
  out: 90.09 KBytes (49 Bytes today)
   in: 115.32 KBytes (5 Bytes today)
Total:
  out: 23.49 MBytes (198.15 KBytes today)
   in: 16.07 MBytes (191.26 KBytes today)

I use the netbots.tcl
The userlist is sent to about 20 eggdrops.

** I checked, an eggdrop online (leaf bot) would have a different
Total In: 206.86 MBytes (1.47 MBytes today)
this is based on 103 days.

so that is what, 50megs a month ?

[Hugh Jaskoch]

I have experienced major usage variations between 4 different shell providers. All were Linux based. My bot serves a consistant and private group of users and its config file remained unchanged during my experience with the shell providers. Usage monthly varied from its current 17 meg/month to over 300 meg/month. I have confirmed the bot's usage to be consistant within 0.9 meg month to month for more than 2 years now. I also noted file transfer speeds varied inversly to its reported usage or traffic. (300 meg/month being the slowest).
I can only relate such findings to shell's configurations.

Hope this adds some insite.