Originally Posted by raymor

The best settings for your site are going to be different from some other guy's site.
He might have videos of 12MB each and your videos are 900MB each (and need to
be split into reasonable scenes). it also depends very much on how smart your
bandwidth control system is. Does it count the full 800MB if someone just watches
the first bit of the video, streaming it? Most do. Does it count video, image, and
html bandwidth separately? I believe only Throttlebox does. Does it interpolate
bandwidth over time, allowing for peaks while controlling slow rips, or is it just a
naive "X GB per day"? With so many variables, another webmaster's numbers are
going to be completely wrong for you. An intelligent system, which only counts the
right bandwidth at the right time, may manage a limit half of what a naive "GB per day"
system could handle without pissing off users. Instead, look at the bandwidth usage
of your own members, and set whatever you are using to not bother 98% of your users,
but to control te 2% who are abusive. See the image for an example:

http://bettercgi/throttlebox/manual/...oosing_limits/

Originally Posted by Shap

Hi Guys. If you are running a site and are concerned with having a good retention my advice is have no bw limits. This is 2009. BW is dirt cheap. Don't limit what your members can download or expect a mass exodus. The key to strong retention is giving the members what they want.

NOTE: if retention isn't your concern (for many sites/programs it isn't) then obviously my reply doesn't apply lol ;)