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Keeping mind of your kilobytes kB and megabytes MB can prevent problems and produce a smoother online experience.

This GreenNet guide is here to help you tell the whales from the minnows. Computer resources do have physical limits to their capacities, even if the idea of computer resources can be scaled up indefinitely. So we really want to think of the sizes of files in a tidy, minimalist way and thereby make the most of the resources we already have. Although most people nowadays seem to have internet connections which cope easily with audio, video and high-resolution images, it is worth remembering that many people do not.

If care is not taken, it is possible to produce a large media file that actually conveys no more information to people than a file a tenth or a hundredth of the size.

Software packages that consume excessive memory and disk space for their function are sometimes called "bloatware", and one could apply a similar aesthetic to media files. For instance, making transcripts available on a web site might help people to find the information they are looking for more quickly than having audio or video interviews alone.

Similarly, you might want to consider whether it's easier for people, including those with visual impairments, to read the date and time of an event from a text email, or to have to open a large PDF or image file of a poster. By the way, the Microsoft term "document" for files never really caught on. The two words are synonymous in this context.

So how big is too big? Obviously, it depends on the context. If you are signing off on a report that is intended to go to the printers, then emailing a 10MB PDF attachment to a few people asking for final comments is completely reasonable. What would be unreasonable is then to email the finished 10MB file to your list of supporters. Instead, you could create a lower-resolution or even text-only version of the PDF, put that on your website, and email a link to the file, perhaps with a little indicator of the file size like "[1.

Why worry about file size when it only takes someone on high-speed broadband 15 seconds to download a 10MB file? A 10MB download on dial-up might take nearly an hour. And older broadband connections or in rural areas the download speed might be kbps and the transfer still takes several minutes. Even on the fastest broadband, uploading is often limited to kbps, so if you expect a 10MB file to be retransmitted, that is likely to be slower than expected.

A large file on its own may be no problem, but when multiplied by the size of the audience it can cause bandwidth problems that affect internet service providers and other users. GreenNet doesn't limit bandwidth, but it is subject to a "fair use" policy. Once downloaded, larger files are harder to manipulate.

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