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[Phi]

Can somone tell me what bandwidth is i dont get what it is or how it works. Can some one fill me in on the details , how it works , and why is it required? Thanks Help would be appreciated

[wariorpk]

Bandwidth is an amount of data transfered over the net. They use this in webhosting so they don't waste all of the system resoursces. Some ISP's use this to limit how much system recources you use. I hope I cleared this up for you a little.

[electriic ink]

I understand it this way :-

Someone accesses a 20kb file on your site from any webiste then you've used up 20kb of your bandwidth. 200 visitors access that 20kb file, then you've used up 200x20kb bandwidth that 4000kb, just about 4mb bandwidth. Makes sense.

[sunkist]

Hi:

What about scripts? If somebody accesses one of my pages that uses a javascript, how much bandwith does that use up?

I also have the same question for java applets. I have several java aplet games on my site, and I am curious as to how they use up bandwith.

Thanks for your previous explanation...it was very goodl.

[Phi]

im sdtill confused with bandwidth , i dont get it even though cmat explained it in a very simple explanation

[psychiccyberfreak]

some scripts that use exessive file transfers will eat up your bandwidth. File downloads, images, and pages all use bandwidth. Anotherwords, think of it as your house's power meter. If you use too much, you get shutdown, or have to pay extra. Every month you get a certain ammount of bandwidth. If you exeed that, your site goes down untill next month. do you get it now?

[xelchemy]

I'm not too sure what it is either but I think it's an amount of space you have. How much room your taking up and such.

[Yfael]

I heard a good analogy for Bandwidth once I hope this helps

Ok so bandwith is like a highway with cars driving on it. The highway is the network(the internet) and the cars are the data(data is like kilobytes and megabytes and stuff). So you know how there is highways with 2 lanes and 3 lanes and 4 lanes. Its the same with computer data, the more bandwidth you have to use, the more data/cars that can be moved/transferred.

So lets say your "out of bandwidth"
Its kinda like...you're highway has no more room for cars/data

[ashiezai]

let's consider this:

Everything i write here are saved into a file and used up some space in the harddisk of trap17. And everyone who wish to see this page need to load from the harddisk of trap17. And everytime you view a page, you used up a certain amout of trap17's allowed bandwidth. That is, if this page is 40kb and u viewed it one time u used up 40kb and twice is 80kb. 1000 members seeing this page will use up 40mb of bandwidth.

So do you understand what bandwidth means now?

[electriic ink]

Bandwidth is the amount of data opened on a particular website.

Say John opened 20kb from example.com then John would have used up 20kb of example.com 's bandwidth.

Then if Becky opens 30kb from example.com then she's used up 30 kb of example.com 's bandwidth.

Together they used up 50kb.

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That's quite simple.

Now...

John opens a page from domain.com which is 5kb big. In this are lots of examples of the code <script src="code.js"> </script> and <embed src="flash.swf"> </embed>

There are 3 js files and 4 flash files which together have a total size of 500kb. When someone opens up the page they'll be using 505kb of bandwidth.

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Flora opens up the page mark.trap17.com/mark2/ which is 3kb big. In this page there is one external (outside) .js link. When she opens the page she only uses 3kb of your bandwidth as that javascript file is not on your site.

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The bandwidth used on your site is the amount of data opened on a your site.