I haven't been on Steemit for that long, and I am starting to get a feel for some of the platform's nuances and foibles as wel as its benefits and powers. One of the more puzzling things that I have seen people talking about though is 'Steemit bandwidth', and in particular talking about how they have run out of it.
I was not previously aware that I even had a bandwidth limitation, having just assumed that I could post and comment as much a I liked. So the moment I heard about the issue of bandwidth I was off to try to find out as much as I could about it.
Among all of the advice I came across, the following thing eluded me right up until I came across it - steemd.com/@yourusername is a great and very easy way to find out about how your work is coming along.
And you can see quite clearly from this screenshot that as I am writing this my Bandwidth Remaining is hovering at 99.76% having used 49kb out of 20mb bandwidth.
I will need to do some extensive testing using this site and a series of posts, comments, resteems etc. to see which use up the most and least bandwidth and just how much is being used each time. But at least now I can check how my Bandwidth is doing and modify my actions to suit what I have left.
In upcoming posts about this, I am going to look into why Steemians each have an allocation of bandwidth; how much each gets allocated and why; and what steps can be taken to boost bandwidth / avoid using it all up.
For example:
I'm off on a mission to find out!
