I love photography, I happen to be in a plant tunnel, I try to follow you. Although not as beautiful as you,
I really like your post @timcliff.
![image](https://img.esteem.ws/etyxw4wase.jpg)

Thanks for the info. I never knew bandwidth sort of equates to power but than again that's also in real life. With more power (real, virtual, monetary, or otherwise), your get more done. :-)

I also have experienced this friend, here I try to post my writing and comments my friend, apparently my limit sydah out. So I wait about 3 hours I just open again steemit and I can again make a comment. Thank you guys, with the knowledge you give this can help me in using my bandwidth capacity. It's great to be friends with you.

Helpful post, thanks for sharing, I didn’t understand how it works until now, thank you for an interesting post. Stay blessed. Upvote and resteem.

I did not know until now what it means steem bandwidth

The information just went over my head as I am not use to technical part. Though I know it's important so I am ur fan😊

I don't think my bandwidth level has ever gone below 70% - but I tend to log in just for an hour or so, before logging out for the day.

steemd.com is down I guess or is working with errors as it shows 0% bandwidth and reputation score at 25 for all users. 


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I like your posts and I want to make the guidance in the field of steemit, but I can for that reason, because I am new disteem, may I become your friend, best regards to you and all

First, steemit needs to make a determination "Are Bots" users? If they are not users, ie: providing content, bring positiveness to steemit, improving the steemit experience, bring growth to steemit. If not when a threshold limit is reached, the ability for bots to do anything at all, (unfortunately this would include @cheetah) then they are shut out of the system. The threshold level being set by the witnesses, something like a new user bandwidth becoming less than 2 times there vote power, 256kb or thereabouts, and all bot's get the boot for the next 6 hours.

Restrict the useless before restricting the users.  This would also include manual re-steem blogs.

Such an awsome post and a perfect view..we hope to see more and more improvement this year..finally,oh yes..new users should have as much bandwidth as they want,beacuse its a matter of  demand and supply..

Iv hit the bandwidth wall every day for the past week.

Yeah, I get it. I am new user with really low Steem Power and I post a ton of content. Atleast I can say that none of it whatsoever is spam.

When i first ran into this issue i was dumbfounded, but quickly did some reading and learned everything you summarized in this informative post.

Since i don't plan on buying any Steem Power, waiting is what I do.

I have noticed the bandwidth allowances drop dramatically from 12Mb right now at midnight on Tuesday EST to around 150 kb or less during the morning hours. I theorize its the incredible amount of accounts and spam bots from the Asian and Indian nations that load the system to capacity.

Then, when they are working the network is solid. There definitely seems to be a larger load on the system during the morning and mid day hours for the Eastern United States.

Oh well. Steem is for everyone!

hello @timcliff please you vote me and follow https://steemit.com/photography/@bilqis07/baneng-hutan-88e64e205ccdf

I am of the opinion that the bandwidth should not be increased further. If increased further we will see more useless posts by reward greedy people and the overall content quality will be degraded. 
Many times I wonder why my up-vote doesn't pay anything to the author. I see the rewards same before and after the post.

I think the standard SP needed to new users work without problems when overall limit go down, is 100, based in [this little post](https://steemit.com/utopian-io/@casberp/bandwidth-problem-suggestion-pt-en)

Wow, i have been seeing bandwidth on my steemd.com, but never really understood what it was for. Thank you for this. Now i understand bandwidth and how it works on steemit.
In a view of increasing bandwidth for users, i dont think it should be increased. In my opinion, it will be abused.
And as for buying bandwidth after limit has been reached, in my opinion, is not good for the platform. It should be more than buying. I think investing should be emphazised. Steemit platform should be more than just posting to earn, investing should be stressed also.

This is very helpful information

I appreciate alot getting us publicly aware about this with my knowledge,  i think allowing users to have much bandwidth wont be a good idea why because people wont take time to make a good read on post before commenting,upvoting or posting because they know it can easily be gotten ans this will make some irrelevant post get irrelevant commet which is spoiling the image of steemit in general. And sure its reasonable for user to pay so it would be valued and everyone will try making sense with their activities . Changes i suggest is that before one make post or comment, ones activities should be rated on a quick bandwidth rating bar before post just to know how relevant it is..I guess i have made a point and thanks for the info once more🖒

i have noticed that the reputations are not going up anymore either.  steemd says higher rep than the pages are showing.   also have all the auto votes stopped?

Thanks for this usual information on bandwidth. In fact, this has become a near daily occurence to me and steemians around me. We have been managing the situation. I follow and upvote you.

**Excellent article. I was looking for it 5 months ago, when I started and I had problems with bandwidth. You did a very good job - writing this article, it will become useful information for many users.**
>Отличная статья. Я искал ее 5 месяцев назад, когда только начал и у меня были проблемы с пропускной способностью. Вы сделали очень доброе дело - написав эту статью, она станет полезной информацией для многих пользователей.

Steemit is an awesome platform. Thanks for the explanation on how it works!

I think limiting the weekly bandwidth according to the steem power of the user is a good mechanism to control the steem network. I do not think that it's necessary to consider another parameter. Increasing the block size could be a good option but it is necessary to be careful, particularly in a context where the steem community is growing.

I joined in June 2017. I only do 5 posts a day plus many comments and an average of 5 transfers a week as I host contests. My bandwidth has never gone below 96%. It is usually higher.

Judging from my own experiences and interactions with newer users than me, I don't think it is necessary to increase bandwidth for new users. Many are rare users. One post a day is common. I think efforts to increase bandwidth should go either to increases for everyone or to the genuine high users who are bringing value to Steemit without using what I call 'the bot plague'.

Yes, in theory, I do think it's reasonable to ask users to pay. Having said that, I would need to see the details to be sure.

I don't know enough about these issues to comment on your other three questions.

While I am here, I want to thank you for upvoting my posts sometimes. You make my day! I work on my contest and get upvotes valuing £0.20 or somesuch amount then your vote comes and it's all worthwhile. Thank you so much.

I’d like to see private  mail and instant messaging.