what does stealing bandwidth means?

Answer 1

If you signup for hosting then you are generally given a limit for data transfer (amount of data transferred from and to the server) also known as bandwidth limit. The more your site is visited the more is bandwidth consumed. All you web pages, and images and the files (zip, exe, mp3, and so on) hosted on your server consume bandwidth depending upon their size.

Now suppose you host a mp3 download site where you have put a lots of such files, which when downloaded by visitors, consume your bandwidth.

Now someone else also hosts another site but instead of storing the files on his own server, links to your site's files. So while the visitor is on his site, you are the one you are losing the bandwidth, without getting any credit for.

This is called stealing of bandwidth.

Answer 2

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Stealing Bandwidth

To steal someone's bandwidth means to run off another ones server, other then your own. Never link to an image or file on someone else's server. Many demo sites get thousands of hits a week. If a person gets 2000 visitors a day to their site and if only 1/10 of those visitors linked to just one file on that server, that would be 200 people per day stealing bandwidth from them. In just one month, that would be 6,000 people who have linked directly to a voiceover file, and even if they were all on low traffic sites that only got 10 visitors a day, they would be paying for the bandwidth of 60,000 hits a day for people that didn't even visit that site! It is also illegal and the theft can be easily detected..

Answer 3

An old metaphor for bandwidth is that of a pipe - only so much "stuff" can go through a pipe at once - in the case of the Internet, that "stuff" is data. People with dial-up connections have very skinny pipes while people with cable or DSL connections will have very fat pipes, allowing a lot of data to flow through it at once.

Therefore, stealing bandwidth refers to the act of using someone's pipes without their permission. This can be done by having your computer compromised and turned into an Internet server (such as for P2P traffic) or by someone gaining physical access to your home network and sucking up all your bandwidth with their own Internet activity (which is almost gauranteed to happen if you have an insecure wireless network).

Answer 4

Using someone elses bandwith (internet uploading space) by a redirection. For instance you put pictures on your website that are already hosted somewhere else. The only way to post pictures on a website and not steal bandwith, is to use your own pictures from your own hard drive, uploaded to your website. Not recommended-but if you really like the pic... Stealing the pic from the site-("save picture as...") and placing it on your own website, from your hard drive uses your own bandwith.

Answer 5

band width means it is a range of frequencies which are given to different web sites to send and receive their data.

whenever there is a picture or some good text is there on a web site some people copy it and use it on their pc or forward it.

this is called stealing band width

Answer 6

When I log on to your Wi-fi (Or you have a progra that does), the modem gives me some of the capacity to get data from the Internet, so your program goes slower.

Answer 7

direct linking content.