Bandwidth

[Scorpion]

With the recent restrictions on posting on line pics(apparently i was guilty of this) recently!!

does this even apply to an image loaded from another site(as i did) rather than uploading

to gallery as it has been suggested to me that doing it this way does not effect the clubs

bandwidth.

Anyone like to comment.......

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[Matthew_McNally]

I can clarify that for you Pete ;)

In-line images are reloaded every time someone views the thread - not just the first time they view it - but every time, whether they 'look' at it or not - there are two reasons why this can be a 'bad thing'

1 - When the image is hosted in our gallery, then it does indeed consume a lot of bandwidth. This costs us money . The last time we did a 'what are the stats for ALL the clubs' exercise, we had used more than 100 gigabytes of bandwidth.

2 - Even if the images are hosted somewhere else, if they are largish images, then people who use a dial up connection really struggle to load a thread and read it. This can really spoil their enjoyment of the site, especially as with inlines, they have no control over whether they view that picture or not. With a link, they can control whether or not they choose to view it.

In your particular case Pete, the image of the lady who'se thong had it's own postcode was 130k - this would take around 25 seconds to download on dial-up - not too nice.

The french ladies thong was significantly smaller ( :P ) - but it would be silly to leave one and change the other.

does this help mate?

[ColinBarber]

Images held on other servers does help LOC bandwidth however the main issue is with our members that use a dial-up Internet connection. Inline images cause them to have a very long load time for pages. A much better solution is to have links so that if a member wants to look at the image they can.

[Scorpion]

25 seconds,wow thats a long time to wait(humour)......not :P

Tell all new members to get with it and they can only join if

they've got broadband, is this harsh......(humour again)

This "IT" stuff is akin to Einstein

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