bandwidth use

[dalilama]

If my home page runs an movie clip that loops endlessly, will the bandwidth useage be the total of the clip, or how many times the clip loops?

I assume the swf downloads to the cache and that's the total usage.

[gusmus]

Depends on how many people visit your site and how long they keep your page open for. A page won't use any bandwidth until someone opens it. If your visitors have ISP,s which run a proxy cache then you may get away with only using bandwidth for the proxy load and the first site visit "unless you change the page very often".

[docree]

It should be downloaded once.
[Thus, your bandwidth use should = the size of the swf. and files.]
Unless, you "loaded" the swf again each loop.
Doc'Ree

[dalilama]

Thanks guys,

On my homepage, I have 40 on-demand clips averaging 30 key frames, and about 10 continuous play loops averaging about 40 key frames. People watch clips to pieces of info to learn about us and our products, not read lots of text. It's like entertaining slideshows all on the homepage. We're not running video

I hear some cable companies will give unlimited bandwidth?

dl