A large forum uses how much Bandwith
 

How much bandwith does a large, 30 members online, forum take up?

What about 30 members, compared to 300 members online at once.?

Impossible to say. Depends a lot on what these members are doing, size and number of attachments being downloaded, size of your style, etc...

technically, the "hit" itself is not heavy on bandwidth... the content downloaded in the process is the trouble maker... with a big style with images and a wrongly written css, the more content your site distribute *(having 25 posts per page instead of 10, etc)... this is how you can control your site bandwidth... and like Marco said, the stuff you distribute... if you use the arcade, this is bandwidth killer.

Thanks, I have about 400 GB of bandwith so that should be enough. With an arcade and such.

The arcade is really going to kill your BW just letting you know.

Yea, it really depends on what your site is hosting, just text and not heavy on attachments is nothing, a decent site could use less then 100GB a month, if you have alot of attachments, large arcade games, any kinda streaming media, or downloadable files will eat your bandwidth, but a simple forum, does not use that much bandwidth just for text.

How do you find out how much bandwidth you have? Is it on the forums or on hosting server?

And on your hosting servers, do you have only a certain amount of space to host with? If so, where do I find how much space I have left and how much I have used? Plus, if you exceed the hostings space limit, would your forum be wiped off? Lol, sorry for the newbie questions, thanks.

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I have an arcade (with 100 games), radio and tv streaming, videos and music (which are uploaded from video websites and music websites), profile gallery which pictures gets uploaded to forum and an mp3 player in users profile, as well as custom CSS on profiles and interactive profiles. Would that take up alot of space?

I use hostgator.com for my host.