what is bandwidth as it pertains to a hosting service?
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BW or BandWeighth is a limitation for data transferings on your website. for example if your hosting package has 5000 MB (5GB) file transfering limitation (BW) and you upload a music with 5 megabytes size , only 1000 person can download your music !
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Haha.. Please when u find out such server do let me know as well...\nCan try:\nhttp://www.fsphost.com/\nthis has a list of servers u can try.\nhttp://www.lights.com/pickalink/freestorage/\n\nKeep one thing in mind, even if u find such server (like the first link i mentioned) there will always be a bandwidth restriction.\n\nHope this helps.
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5.5 will be your max.\n\nThe speed depends on how far away from your exchange you live. I live a long way from mine too, I get about 2.5mb on an 8mb bandwidth.\n\nOh well.
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It is simply impossible to increase bandwidth until 8 times simply like that without hardware change.\n\nIt is possible for some website to have an increase up to 5-10 times, but it would be only minorities of the whole internet. Most pages would only load 2-3 faster with a web accelerator. (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_accelerator/ )\n\nThere is Google Web Accelerator: http://webaccelerator.google.com/index.html\nthis one is free.
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You don't want network utilization to be high, that would slow down data transfer speeds on the network.\n\nThe Networking tab provides a scale showing the relative level of Local Area Connection traffic that the workstation you're working with is generating. By default, only 1% is shown. If you are downloading many files and are working with many remote resources, the percentage of Local Area Connection will go up quickly.
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ASTAHOST [ 20 MB / 150 MB ] *NEW*\n\nThey offer up to 150MB\n\n\n1ASPHost [ 100 MB ] *NEW*\nOffers 100MB\n\nYouSendIt [ 1 GB ]\n\nFor all your files larger than 50 MB,up to 1 GB big.\n\n\nezShare [ 20 MB ]\n\n30mb.com [ 30 MB ]\n\n\nBravenet\n\nAngelfire\n\nTripod\n\n\nFreeWebSpace.net \n\n\nShotHost\n\nOffers decent web hosting solutions ranging from 25MB to 400MB at very cheap prices.\n\nhttp://www.putfile.com/\n* Upload Video, Flash, and Images\n\n* .jpg .gif .png - 2mb\n\n* .wmv .avi .mpg .mov .asf .swf - 10mb\n\n* Linux Dedicated Servers\n\n* Pornography Prohibited\n\n\n\n\n__________________________________________________ ___________\n\nhttp://dinghy.homeip.net/upload.php\nfile types allowed: gif, jpg, jpeg, png, txt, nfo, doc, rtf, htm, dmg, zip, rar, gz, exe\n\nfile size limit: 737.28 MB\n\n\n\nhttp://zachhorn.com/.upload/index.php\nfile types allowed: gif, jpg, jpeg, png, txt, nfo, doc, rtf, htm, dmg, zip, rar, gz, exe\n\nfile size limit: 102.4 MB\n\n\n\n\nhttp://members.lycos.co.uk/signifer123/\nfile types allowed: gif, jpg, jpeg, png, fla, swf, txt, nfo, doc, rtf, htm, dmg, zip, rar, gz, exe\n\nfile size limit: 100 MB\n\n\n\nhttp://www.hellreapers.com/fileupload/\nfile types allowed: gif, jpg, jpeg, png, zip, rar, w3g, wmv\n\nfile size limit: 58.828 MB\n\n\n\nhttp://www.al-nahda.com/kutub/\nfile types allowed: gif, jpg, jpeg, png, txt, nfo, doc, pdf, rtf, htm, dmg, zip, rar, gz, tif, tiff\n\n\nfile size limit: 49.063 MB\n\n\n\nhttp://dhalkar.serveftp.com/fileupload/\nfile types allowed: png, css, bmp, gif, jpg, jpeg, png, txt, nfo, doc, rtf, dmg, zip, rar, gz\n\nfile size limit: 20 MB\n\n\n\nhttp://www.b3n.cc/filehost/\nfile types allowed: gif, jpg, jpeg, png, txt, zip, rar, gz, exe\n\nfile size limit: 14.648 MB\n\n\n\n\nhttp://www.da_insane.boo.pl/d/upload/index.php\nfile types allowed: gif, JPG, jpg, jpeg, JPEG, png, txt, nfo, doc, rtf, htm, dmg, zip, rar, gz, exe\n\nfile size limit: 10 MB\n\n_______________________________________________ ___________\n\n\n\nwww.youshareit.com\nSame system as yousendit.com, but it only has a 100MB limit, but also allows up to 100 downloads of the particular file.\n\n\n\nwww.rapidshare.de\nUnlimited downloads.\n\n\nhttp://dinghy.homeip.net/upload.php\nfile types allowed: gif, jpg, jpeg, png, txt, nfo, doc, rtf, htm, dmg, zip, rar, gz, exe\nfile size limit: 737.28 MB\n\n\nhttp://zachhorn.com/.upload/index.php\nfile types allowed: gif, jpg, jpeg, png, txt, nfo, doc, rtf, htm, dmg, zip, rar, gz, exe\nfile size limit: 102.4 MB\n\n\n\nhttp://members.lycos.co.uk/signifer123/\nfile types allowed: gif, jpg, jpeg, png, fla, swf, txt, nfo, doc, rtf, htm, dmg, zip, rar, gz, exe\nfile size limit: 100 MB\n\nhttp://www.hellreapers.com/fileupload/\nfile types allowed: gif, jpg, jpeg, png, zip, rar, w3g, wmv\nfile size limit: 58.828 MB\n\nhttp://www.al-nahda.com/kutub/\nfile types allowed: gif, jpg, jpeg, png, txt, nfo, doc, pdf, rtf, htm, dmg, zip, rar, gz, tif, tiff\nfile size limit: 49.063 MB\n\nhttp://dhalkar.serveftp.com/fileupload/\nfile types allowed: png, css, bmp, gif, jpg, jpeg, png, txt, nfo, doc, rtf, dmg, zip, rar, gz\nfile size limit: 20 MB\n\nhttp://www.b3n.cc/filehost/\nfile types allowed: gif, jpg, jpeg, png, txt, zip, rar, gz, exe\nfile size limit: 14.648 MB\n\nhttp://www.da_insane.boo.pl/d/upload/index.php\nfile types allowed: gif, JPG, jpg, jpeg, JPEG, png, txt, nfo, doc, rtf, htm, dmg, zip, rar, gz, exe\nfile size limit: 10 MB
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Many ISPs will cap your download speeds.  Speeds depend on many factors such as the server you are downloading from may be slower than your available download speed.  If you have ADSL service, then the farther you are from the host, the slower your speeds.  If it is cable broadband, then the more connections that are active on your specific node will slow your speeds.
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A range within a band of frequencies or wavelengths.\n\n The amount of data that can be transmitted in a fixed amount of time. For digital devices, the bandwidth is usually expressed in bits per second(bps) or bytes per second. For analog devices, the bandwidth is expressed in cycles per second, or Hertz (Hz).
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http://www.bandwidthplace.com/speedtest/\n\nOne choice.
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I searched for "free bandwidth test" on Yahoo! and this was the very first result:\n\nhttp://www.bandwidthplace.com/speedtest/
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Try this bandwidth shaping software called Netlimiter Pro/Lite. It includes real-time traffic measurement which will provide you how much bandwidth is being used by your application and you can also set/change  it in real-time.\n you can download that from : http://www.netlimiter.com/download.php\n\n before downloading refer this : http://www.netlimiter.com/featurelist.php
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ISP's count two kinds of megabyte usage:\n\n-Storage: the files that make up your web site or email take up space on the ISP's server. The usage is almost always just the total size of the files, or how much space they take up on the hard drive.\n\n-Bandwidth:  how much traffic you produce, or how much data is transferred between your web site and someone looking at it.  This is harder to calculate because a lot of things come together to make up the bandwidth usage (the ISP has tools to track it though).  For example, you have download page which has 20 small picture "thumbnails" on it. Someone visits your site. The entire page with the thumbnails gets transfered to their computer. That size goes towards your bandwidth usage. They then download two of the pictures, in their normal size, not the thumbnails. So the size of each of the pictures is added to the bandwidth usage. There is also "overhead" where files take more space when being transferred between computers than they do when they are just sitting on the hard drive; it's kind of like shipping something by UPS. You have to wrap your item in a package to ship it, and you base the shipping charge on the size of the total package with its wrappings, not just what's inside of it.
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Sorry to tell you this, but there's absolutely NO WAY to get around the IT department's proxy servers (the "gatekeepers" of the network) as they'll prevent access to the ports required for streaming AV streams.\n\nThe only place that you MAY sneak by the IT department temporarily (as the IT department will eventually catch onto it) would be Pandora ( http://www.pandora.com ) as it streams its audio through Flash.\n\nEven if you take the lowest possible bitrate for broadcasting (24 KBps), here's how the math would come out:\n\n24 KBps * 3600 sec/hr * 8 hrs = 691,200 KB (691.2 MB) / workday \n\n691.2 MB / workday * 7 days/wk = 4838.4 MB (4.8384 GB) / wk\n\n4.8384 GB / wk * 4 weeks / mo = 19.3536 / mo.\n\nConsidering Bandwidth costs $2/GB/mo (high-end), it would cost $38.71 / mo in Bandwidth.  You also need to be aware that streaming audio & video constantly requires the a chunk of available bandwidth to use.  If your download bandwidth is 700 KBps & the stream you're listen/viewing is 100 KBps, that leaves 600 KBps for everybody on the same connection.\n\nIf you multiply the bandwidth requirements over multiple users, it will eventually squeeze the available bandwidth & slow down the speed of others.  For example, if you have 10 users on 700 KBps  connection & 5 of them are viewing/listening to a 96 KBps audio/video stream.  That leaves only 200 KBps available for the other activities.  So if everybody is downloading a file at the same time while the streams are active, the downloading speed on that file would average around 20 KBps instead of around 70 KBps.\n\nI know that my examples are in a Micro-network (10 users or less), but in a large-scale network...  this could spell massive problems, especially if somebody is telecommuting as their upload speed is affected by the download speed of the server/network they're connecting to.\n\nWhy don't you burn an CD full of MP3's (or an audio format you prefer) & play music off of that?
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Hey Pal,\n\nThere is software which is called NETLIMITER :\nwww.netlimiter.com\n\nIts very very very useful for managing your bandwidth.\n\nCiao,
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Quality Of Service\nIt's used to allow more important traffic through the network ahead of regular traffic. A bit like a bus lane. It rates from 0 to 5, and isn't used on the internet as much as private networks or ISP carrying voice traffic
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That's the maximum bandwidth. You'll never have all the time that ammount. Ask them what's the minimum bandwidth guarantee and the usual one. They should tell you because it's written in the contract!