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Topic: Serious bandwidth problems with forum!!
Posted By: FLATLINE
Subject: Serious bandwidth problems with forum!!
Date Posted: 22 May 2003 at 4:58pm

This is really weird, I didn't have this problem with version 6.**. I'm on a Brinkster account and after I installed the forum v7, it keeps telling me that my account exceeded its bandwidth limit! I checked it in my brinkster bandwidth statistics and it really shows that the limit was exceeded! When I thought that maybe I'm getting a lot of traffic I went to check my website hit count statistics and saw that the hits are 30% less than normal! What the hell??

I don't have any big files for download in my site, so I think the problem is with the new forum. Could it be that something is wrong with it and it eats out bandwidth for some reason?



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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 23 May 2003 at 3:13am

There are more graphics on version 7 so it will use more bandwidth.

But I have found that those sites using allot of bandwidth with the forum have set it up so that it shows 100's of topic subjects or 100's of posts on one page.

To cut down on the amount of bandwidth used only show 10 to 15 topic subjects per page in the forum. Also more importently only show 8 to 12 posts per page, if you try showing 50 posts on one page then each time that topic is looked at it sucks allot of bandwidth showing all the posts on one large page, and many people won't read all the posts anyway.



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Posted By: FLATLINE
Date Posted: 23 May 2003 at 4:04am
No I didn't set up anything, I left the default settings... But I'll try reducing the numbers, thanks Borg!

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Posted By: burnout
Date Posted: 23 May 2003 at 9:26pm

do what i do..pu tthe images on a different host...e.g. another brinkster acc...

and change the image urls to point to their...works perfect and barly any bandwidth!



Posted By: fernan82
Date Posted: 23 May 2003 at 10:50pm
Originally posted by burnout burnout wrote:

do what i do..pu tthe images on a different host...e.g. another brinkster acc...

and change the image urls to point to their...works perfect and barly any bandwidth!

That's a neat trick but be aware that if you ever get caught i'm sure they'll delete your accounts without notice......



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Posted By: FLATLINE
Date Posted: 24 May 2003 at 3:54pm
That's a good idea! Thanks! I'll use a host that allows remote pics download, thanks again!

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Posted By: FLATLINE
Date Posted: 24 May 2003 at 4:35pm
Damn... I thought that you could configure the default forum images folder, but I can't find it anywhere... Just don't tell me that I have to change every page with images

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Posted By: FLATLINE
Date Posted: 24 May 2003 at 4:43pm
Oh nevermind I found it in the skin file!

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Posted By: burnout
Date Posted: 24 May 2003 at 7:35pm

Originally posted by fernan82 fernan82 wrote:

That's a neat trick but be aware that if you ever get caught i'm sure they'll delete your accounts without notice......

dont use brinkster..i just used it as an example...i use my isp free 5 mb's for the images:)



Posted By: xinxin
Date Posted: 22 June 2003 at 12:44am

Sorry to be reviving a dead thread, but my problem seems to fit under this category.

I'm running WWF v7.01 (MS Access Verison) on a free Brinkster account.  I followed the setup instructions, placed the database in the /db directory and changed all the neccessary files.  The first time I logged in as admin, it worked perfectly.  However, the next day, it told me that I had exceeded my daily bandwidth access.

This is something very strange as I have not opened my forums to the public yet, so no one should have known they existed.  It has been a month since I attempted to solve the problem and the same thing remains.  "The daily bandwidth limit for this member has been exceeded. Try again after midnight, EST."

If anyone has any ideas on how I could solve this problem, it would be much appreciated.



Posted By: TYSON
Date Posted: 22 June 2003 at 1:56am
It appears brinkster are requiring you to recieve emails from them to mantain your bandwidth allowance, http://www.brinkster.com/forums/forummessage.asp?id=89596&Forum=1 - http://www.brinkster.com/forums/forummessage.asp?id=89596&Forum=1  so if you have given brinkster an incorrect email address try updating it with your current email address that you know is working.

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Posted By: xinxin
Date Posted: 22 June 2003 at 2:19am

The email address I have given them is indeed active.  When I navigate into Account Manager -> Page View and Statistics, the page loads with errors.  There are no indicators of usage, only what appears to be a portion of their main page loaded into a small borderless box.




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