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Subject: Bandwidth
by Wasmith on 2005/2/2 8:44:38
It's not necessarily how big the files are, it's how many users are viewing/downloading them, which is compounded by how each user connects.
If I am on a high-speed connection and I click on a 2 meg file, it may take only a second or two to get it. I used the bandwidth but only for a very short time. A dial-up user on the other hand may take 30 seconds or more. So the second user is likely to collide with other users since it takes him longer to "get off the highway". So you have bandwidth issues.
This is a very "image-intensive" site. The artwork (of course), all the little avatars and emoticons and such, banners, etc. All these things take up bandwidth each and every time a page is refreshed or rendered by the browser. So unless you start limiting logins, there's not much you can do. I don't think reducing file sizes will help all that much.
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