So, I heard so much about the trials of running up against bandwidth restrictions when I was hosting #Dolphinschool Bootcamp on @markrmorrisjr that I decided I'd find out how to make it work by starting this account.
You guys weren't kidding! Within the first day, I hit a wall. Granted, I started with 3 SP, so I was low on the totem pole. But, I was determined to get the word out about @dolphinschool, so I sent a few more Steem to the account, only to find out, I couldn't even power it up!
So, I hit up an account of a friend that's mostly dormant, for a loan and got my battery charged to the tune of an additional 50 SP. So far, so good.
So, today, on dolphinschool, I wanted to share some ideas with you on how to conserve bandwidth. It's going to continue to be a problem for new accounts, into the foreseeable future. I may set up a test account, with precisely the same parameters as a beginner, no help from here or @markrmorrisjr and see what I can do. If I do, I'll report on it after 30 days.
Otherwise, you guys will just head over and follow and upvote and do what you do, and spoil the effect of starting from scratch.
That's when I wrote this
Today, I got curious. I took a look at a brand new user's account. In the wallet, I discovered, they are only granted 0.5 SP, and have a delegation (loan) of another 14.53 SP, for just over 15! That's about what I was running on yesterday when I had issues again!!
1st Understand bandwidth usage!
There are a lot of things that use bandwidth on steemit. In fact, pretty much the only thing that does not, is logging in, and reading content. After that, nearly every effective action you can take will knock it lower!
- Posting
- Commenting
- Upvoting
- Downvoting
- Resteeming
- Following
- Transferring
- Buying/selling in the market
- Powering up
- Powering down
In short, everything it means to be active on steemit has a cost.
You can track your bandwidth and usage here: https://steemd.com/@dolphinschool
**Simply change the address by adding your user name.
Like this https://steemd.com/@username
Since bandwidth is so limited, how can anyone hope to start from scratch? Well, I've got some great solutions, if you're willing to try them.
STEP ONE
