I'm looking to change my current host but I'm not clear on bandwidth and how it works. One page on my site has six Windows Media video clips amounting to about 10mb each- 60mb in total. Can anyone tell me what amount of bandwidth I need? Say if 100 people visited my site in one month and viewed the six videos how much bandwidth would i need to accommodate these visitors? thanks

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If they viewed them to the end:

10mb * 6 * 100 = 6000MB ~ 6GB

Also don't forget the data transfer for the pages on your site.

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It's really dependant on
* what the videos are about - specific content or general ?
* how interested the visitors are in seeing them all - a steps 1-6 training pack may get more people to watch them all than 6 random flicks
* how long it takes before the viewing starts - this will be impacted by whether you go for cheap-sh!te budget hosting or decent service.
* do they have to watch them all or can they pick/chose
* has their network admin setup some sort of cache/filter/proxy system so they all see a local copy not the webiste copy
etc
etc
etc

IME with training videos and presentations, for every 100 people that start watching a series, sub 30% actually get through them all.

So you'd probably get some thing like
100 watch 1
85 watch 2
70 watch 3
55 watch 4
40 watch 5
25 watch 6
= 100*10 + 85*10 + 70*10 + 55*10 +40*10 +25*10
= 3750Mb

So your transfer if it consisted *only* of views/downloads of the videos (i.e. no other web content, no html, no graphics, no emails, no *uploads* no anything !) would be between 3.75Gb/month and 6Gb/month

One of our clients has a few (11) short (all about 20Mb) video clips explaining how to use their software etc, and they regularly do 1300Gb/month of data-transfer.

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thanks for that, alot of info for me to think thanks again

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Say the video file is 100MB and the embeddable SWF player is 20KB (Pardon my accuracy). If a viewer watched the full thing, that viewer would use 100MB and 21KB of bandwidth. If the viewer watched half the movie, the viewer would use 50MB and 21KB of bandwidth, and so on and so forth. Of course, this is a factory estimate (they have perfect internet, the only content on the page is the Player, etc, the reason I had 1 extra KB of bandwidth was because HTML files take up bandwidth too.)

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digging up old threads, banned for 1 month

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