Network/Message Board question

NYHoustonman

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Out of curiosity, why do mega-threads (large threads) take up more bandwidth than a number of smaller threads? I don't see any reason, but on another board I am getting into this argument and don't want to sound like a total moron. The only thing I could think of is that such a topic could spur more user activity...
 

JackMDS

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You click on a small thread, you download 300bytes. You click on a "Big" thread you download 2k.

300+300+300=900bytes.

2k+2k+2k=6000bytes.

More Bytes more bandwitdh.

LOL. Mean time I waste bandwidth.
 

Smilin

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In that case any difference would be minimal and would be because of something like how the DB server handles different record sizes.
 

JackMDS

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The one big 1500K will save few hundreds bytes, since there will be only one link overhead ID etc.