Avatar Bandwith.....?
<div class="IPBDescription">What the fudge?</div> As many (if many is between 0 and 3) of you may know, I aquired an avatar yesterday after having used a stock avatar for nearly a year.
And then my avatar ran out of bandwidth.
Now here is where the newbie question comes in, so everyone take notes and get ready to point and laugth:
What the fudgery is bandwidth? As far as my somewhat limited computer knowledge it has something to do with how many people are viewing my avatar. So how did I run out of bandwidth in less than a day? AFAIK plenty of other forumites use myimgs.com, and the only time i've seen the same message i've got on my sig now was when the whole site went down.
Here is what the site actually says:
Your account has ran out of views and/or bandwidth for this month.
To continue to view your images, please UPGRADE to a higher account.
Your resources will be reset at the beggining of the month.
QUICK ACCOUNT STATS
Images Uploaded: 2 / 10
Views This Month: 1122 / 2000
Bandwidth This Month: 10.22 MB / 10 MB
Space: 18.09 KB / 2 MB
Current Plan: Free (UPGRADE)
So, oh ye of little sleep, what have I done to use up a month's bandwidth in a day?
And then my avatar ran out of bandwidth.
Now here is where the newbie question comes in, so everyone take notes and get ready to point and laugth:
What the fudgery is bandwidth? As far as my somewhat limited computer knowledge it has something to do with how many people are viewing my avatar. So how did I run out of bandwidth in less than a day? AFAIK plenty of other forumites use myimgs.com, and the only time i've seen the same message i've got on my sig now was when the whole site went down.
Here is what the site actually says:
Your account has ran out of views and/or bandwidth for this month.
To continue to view your images, please UPGRADE to a higher account.
Your resources will be reset at the beggining of the month.
QUICK ACCOUNT STATS
Images Uploaded: 2 / 10
Views This Month: 1122 / 2000
Bandwidth This Month: 10.22 MB / 10 MB
Space: 18.09 KB / 2 MB
Current Plan: Free (UPGRADE)
So, oh ye of little sleep, what have I done to use up a month's bandwidth in a day?
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<img src='http://users.adelphia.net/~djlink128/NilsAva.gif' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
Bandwidth This Month: 10.22 MB / 10 MB <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
That's your problem. But they have a 10 MB limit a month?! <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo-->
bandwidth originally meant what frequencies along a wire were usable for communication.
But in internet lingo nowadays it boils down to the total number of bytes they will send to someone for you over some period of time. So you have 10MB of total transfer a month. So if it's like a 50KB avatar, then they'll let ~200 people see it before they shut you down :/
Images Uploaded: 2 / 10
Views This Month: 1122 / 2000
Bandwidth This Month: 10.22 MB / 10 MB
Space: 18.09 KB / 2 MB
Current Plan: Free (UPGRADE)
So, oh ye of little sleep, what have I done to use up a month's bandwidth in a day? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Hokay. You see how you have 1122 views on your avatar? That means that MyImgs had to send your avatar to 1122 people yesterday (or just one person 1122 times, it really doesn't matter). That means that your 18.09 KB file used up approximately 10.22 MB of bandwidth, as stated below the views.
Picture bandwidth as being a pipe, and you pay the company to let you use their pipe to send through your data. All the data that goes through is measured, and they charge you accordingly. If you send through too much data, it means they have less space for other people, so they shut you down. Make sense?
I <i>think</i> that's right <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
make sense? <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
and yes, that is actually the example they use...They even have it animated with flash... <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo-->
one of these days im gonna make my own image host when i find out how to meter bandwidth and really take a look at what happens.