True, we are working on a “video phone” solution, but the bandwith needed for a good conversation is about 2000kbps (upstream and downstream) (2sif and 25fps) which is no problem on a LAN, but for a WAN is somewhat high. I know that in the beginning of intant maeesging there have been some chat programs that worked within a LAN surrounding that sended the characters one by one over the network.

I’ve talked this through this with several people and there wish is the character based solution. I know that old ICQ version had this function based on a peer to peer connection which was created. But the new ICQ version don’t support this anymore.

Does nobody has a clue for a instant messenger which sends it’s information real time to the chat partner? (Character by character)