cached pages and bandwidth usage

[rh71]

Say I'm using a webhost that has a bandwidth/month usage cap. I have a site like ParadoxSystems that have subsequent pages that load the same SWF over and over (click on the links and you'll see). The SWF is apparently cached after the first load (can't tell because the size is small enough to load quickly).

My question is... if people keep loading the subsequent pages through the links, and that header SWF is loaded over and over, is each "load" considered bandwidth usage by the webhost or does a cached copy not even load from the server? Is it actually being cached ?

[optical]

Cached movies won't affect your bandwidth as they are loaded client side.

Ian

[rh71]

What if the browser setting is set to "check for new version on every visit to the page" ?

This would all be moot if it wasn't even a cached page, so I'd like to know if it's even being cached... don't know if SWFs can be.

[optical]

Swf's are cached - even if the browser setting is set to "check for new version on every visit to the page" it will only download the swf from the server if that particular swf is a newer version.