No matter what, this is more than likely going to kill a server. Unless you set it to refresh every 3 minutes xD But i believe that would ruin it no? I just recommend getting a bigger server ;)

I do believe commet chat shouldnt effect server haul, do to the fact its not refreshign the page its literally refreshing the content itself through ajax. so theres no actual site or frame refreshign at all. I have made soemthign similar to this chat function for a regular shoutbox and theres no sever haul at all. course it be nice to see a free version of comet chat for those who dont want to go out of their way and spend $49.00 USD for it.

Where is the link?

if you are talking about cometchat website it's: http://www.cometchat.com/

no, yalking about ti07shadow's plugin or plugin he is talking about..

Ttt..

Anyone come up with anything else?

I was thinking about buying cometchat, i dont mind paying 49 bucks but i am worried about how much bandwidth it will use...is it true that it can dramatically effect your bandwidth or has that been fixed?

Anyone else?

It's definitely going to increase your bandwidth but not to the point where you should notice it...

I've just purchased and installed Comet Chat and initially had issues with load with around 200 people online concurrently. I got help from other Comet Chat users and staff and tweaked some settings and now it's back to an acceptable level.

Would definitely recommend, but don't underestimate the load it's going to put on your DB in it's default setup.

I just purchased this and the vB integration is minimal at best. There's no way to set what usergroups can use it, no profile settings for members to set if they want to display it or not, etc.

There's also no adminCP integration at all.

Granted most of this can be code custom (which I'll do this weekend) but it's pretty thin as far as integration goes.

While while it DOES work and still is pretty cool, make sure you do more research than I did before spending the cash on it.