TheGoofster
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I've been a member of Photobucket for a few years now. I never really used it all that much, perhaps uploading 10 - 15 pictures a month (and sharing about that many as well - mostly here on the DIS).
Recently I've started writing Daily review on the Theme board park, and sharing 6 or 7 pictures a day in each review (thus increasing how much I've been using PB)
Because I wanted to keep all my Disney pictures together, I went ahead and created a new Photobucket account (using a different email address and all). I've had this new PB account for about a week now. Since I started using it, I've uploaded about 30 - 40 pictures, and have shared about 20 - 25 of them (again here on the DIS).
Yesterday I got a message saying that I've exceeded my bandwith limit on this new account (10 GB), and that I need to upgrade to PRO if I want to continue viewing my photos. Also the photos I shared yesterday aren't available in my thread right now.
After researching it a bit, I see that in the past week I've had about 1500 views on my pictures (each of the 5 top shots getting about 300 view each).
Now, to me this seems kind of strange that so few views on so few pictures should cause this bandwith error message.
I went ahead and opened my other account (the one I've had for some years), and looked at the bandwith use of that one. In the past month I've had well over 6000 views on the top 5 pictures, yet it says that I've only used 85 MB (about 1 - 2% of my total bandwith).
So, my question is this - what in the world does this bandwith exceeded message mean? Why does one account get blocked after just 1500 views, and the other account has barely touched it's bandwith limit with many, many more views?
Is it based on how long you've had the account? Is it possible someone is linking to my account causing this higher rate?
Is there anything I can do to get the bandwith back down again? I think I read somewhere that it resets at some time? Is there a way to find out when?
Basically any info would be extremely helpful and appreciated. I've tried googling this, but couldn't find much helpful info.
Recently I've started writing Daily review on the Theme board park, and sharing 6 or 7 pictures a day in each review (thus increasing how much I've been using PB)
Because I wanted to keep all my Disney pictures together, I went ahead and created a new Photobucket account (using a different email address and all). I've had this new PB account for about a week now. Since I started using it, I've uploaded about 30 - 40 pictures, and have shared about 20 - 25 of them (again here on the DIS).
Yesterday I got a message saying that I've exceeded my bandwith limit on this new account (10 GB), and that I need to upgrade to PRO if I want to continue viewing my photos. Also the photos I shared yesterday aren't available in my thread right now.
After researching it a bit, I see that in the past week I've had about 1500 views on my pictures (each of the 5 top shots getting about 300 view each).
Now, to me this seems kind of strange that so few views on so few pictures should cause this bandwith error message.
I went ahead and opened my other account (the one I've had for some years), and looked at the bandwith use of that one. In the past month I've had well over 6000 views on the top 5 pictures, yet it says that I've only used 85 MB (about 1 - 2% of my total bandwith).
So, my question is this - what in the world does this bandwith exceeded message mean? Why does one account get blocked after just 1500 views, and the other account has barely touched it's bandwith limit with many, many more views?
Is it based on how long you've had the account? Is it possible someone is linking to my account causing this higher rate?
Is there anything I can do to get the bandwith back down again? I think I read somewhere that it resets at some time? Is there a way to find out when?
Basically any info would be extremely helpful and appreciated. I've tried googling this, but couldn't find much helpful info.
DH did all the "computer checking stuff" (can you tell I'm not computer savvy? 
) last night and determined the freezing was directly linked to Photobucket. Was seriously considering some other site...any suggestion? 
