Bandwidth Limits
Today I found my internet connection slowed nearly to a halt as a few people downloaded dozens of files at a time from my music site. What kind of craziness is this? I am NOT your personal Napster. Come on people, show some self control.
In light of these abuses of my resources I have imposed bandwidth and connection limits on the site. If you are one of the lucky few people who have a username and password to the site you will now be limited to 3 connections per person and have your download speed throttled to 100Kb/s tops. In addition to those restrictions, the overall site is being capped at 20 connections with a max transfer speed of 200Kb/s (shared among all users). What this means is if you try to grab more than three songs at a time your subsequent downloads WILL fail. Additionally your download rate WILL suck.
I appologize to the legit users for these limits, as usual a few have ruined for the rest of you. If I get enough complaints I may relax the limits again and see how people handle it. If you are one of the legit users who are ticked off by these limits, drop me an email and I will consider changes.
As a side note to site users I can and do watch my traffic stats and realtime usage. It ticks me off when my whole internet connection gets sapped. Don’t screw with me, you will get banned.
When I first found your music site, I had 5 simultaneous downloads, then waited till they finished and repeated. Never thought about how much of an impact that would have on your connection, but it makes sense, lol. Thanks for the heads up. Thanks for the music, just really want a few more albums, Thanks Mike.
Addison said this on February 6th, 2006 at 2:29 pm
Got a question, is there like a time that your like not using your computer? That would probably be a better time to DL from your site. Yes/No? Not a real genius when it comes to internet, lol. Thanks
Addison said this on February 6th, 2006 at 2:36 pm
Pretty much any time during the day on weekdays. The worst times are 4PM-12PM EST and any time on the weekend. But that said so long as the number of downloads is reasonable (like 3) I don’t really care too much.
I may be able to find a creative solution such as allowing unlimited downloads on my off hours (when I’m at work or asleep). I’m just not familiar with cband yet so I don’t know how to creatively apply bandwidth restrictions. I am definately working on this.
Mike Crute said this on February 6th, 2006 at 2:41 pm
Ok, sounds great. Thanks Mike
Addison said this on February 6th, 2006 at 5:45 pm