WOW. A thread just taking up bandwith

TrueDetailer

TrueDetailer

All About The Bling Bling
I've been up in rhode island for about the last week. I needed to take a vacation and to get away from the florida heat. Last time i was near a computer, detail city was hacked, Now i'm back home and we got a whole new look. Can't wait for what else is planned. Alright so i'm going to read up on what i've missed, just felt like sharing my thought for the evening.
 
"just taking up bandwith"
This term is used fairly often and being the computer ignorant person I am, I don't really understand what people are concerned about.

Is there a shortage of bandwidth?

Does anyone actually run out of bandwidth and have a problem because of that happening?

Other than not posting, is there some way to preserve bandwidth?

If this shortage of bandwidth is not really a problem, (As I suspect), why is referred to regularly?

This is another one of the many computer terms that I don't understand. :dontgetit

Charles
 
Dwayne gets charged based partially on how much bandwidth he uses. If you write up a million word essay that ends up being a meg in size (unlikely, but go with me here for a second), then everytime that thread is opened it charges Dwayne for a meg of data. The host of Detail City allows him so much bandwidth (data) to transfer every month. If he were to exceed that data then he would be billed overage. My guess is that he is allowed several gig of data and a text based forum like this doesn't likely reach anywhere near his limit, but there are sites out there that aren't optimized for bandwidth and cost the webmaster a lot of money every month. If you consider that each character can be estimated at 1 byte each and there are a billion bytes in a meg.... I think DC will have plenty of bandwidth for threads for awhile. :) The graphics that are linked from other sites doesn't have any affect on our bandwidth. The only thing that matters are the pictures that are uploaded directly to the DC servers and what text is written here. Anyway, that is your bandwidth lesson for today.
 
I don't want to offend anyone here, especially not Blinded, because what he just said is almost entirely correct. However, a megabyte is actually a million bytes and a gigabyte is a billion bytes. I think that is probably what he meant, but just typed it wrong....

Sorry to interrupt the lesson.
 
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