You'll find timers use surprisingly little bandwidth, its the redalloy wire. Insulated, uninsulated, jacketed - it makes almost no difference. Bundled I believe uses slightly less, but I've not done much testing. Using vanilla redstone dust or having timers directly adjacent to the frame/machine with no wire in between uses the least bandwidth. A rather large factory on my server went from 5mbit/s per player to ~0.5mbit/s by removing all redalloy wire on timer outputs. It only uses bandwidth when it changes state, so slow timers, or signals from buttons/levers are fine to run over redalloy, just nothing that changes state fast.
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