Most of this blog has been created during quiet moments at work in between the frantic busy-ness of my daily tasks. It's a great stress reliever.
I am not so stupid as to blog for good or ill about my employer. But I wonder, being a techno-ignoramus, whether this thing called bandwith could be a problem. Do blog posts such as these use up an employer's computer system bandwidth?
If so, I might have to update this blog only on weekends.
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Scary blog bandwidth question
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I don't think they do. Game sights and internet radio sites do though. I know because I was asked not listen to the internet radio during the instructional day because it slows things down for other people.
Thanks, I feel better now.
Hey ECD....
Bandwidth is the amount of data (per unit of time) that your internet connection can download.
So, say, on this ADSL connection of mine, I can download at 10Mb/sec (10 megabits per second = 1.25 megabytes per second, 1Mb=0.125MB).
Loading a website such as your blog, which is text-based, requires very little data transfer.
You can check exactly how much it required by right clicking on the connection status in the bottom right of your screen, and noting down how much data has been downloaded (or sum the total downloaded and uploaded for greater accuracy).
Then load the website, and calculate the difference. So, say, if it downloaded 0.2MB (roughly 125,000 bytes), in 1 second, then you used up 1Mb/sec of bandwidth during that second.
So chase march is pretty much right, especially seeing as though blog sites load so quickly. They would have no right to complain about processes which only use bandwidth for a few seconds.
You can find out what your total bandwidth is, and then work out what % of it you are using through a similar method. Don't be bullied in to using, say, only 1/100th of the total bandwidth, if there are only 10 computers on the network or something.
That could mean somebody else just wants it all to themselves :)
You've written some great posts more recently than this, sorry I couldn't reply. Damn exams.
Will get to it later.
Oh, okay. Bandwidth users are like pigs at a trough, all sucking up a certain amount of the finite slop, and the problem comes when one pig eats too much or too many pigs are at the trough.
It's not about storage space, then. Once I log off, I'm no longer consuming anything.
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