Quick Questions, Short Answers - No Debate

The previous times I have been to South Africa I was always a passenger. Even though I never drove I was still a little disoriented when I returned to the US and drove for the first time.

The BMW I rented here in South Africa does not have a dual scale speedometer. Kilometers only.
We also have a BMW van. I haven't been in that one yet but will look later today.
To all who think I must be rich and fancy because I rented a BMW, it was the midpriced 4 door automatic that was most reasonably priced.
The reason for the van, is that my mother-in-law lived here for 7 years to grandmother a house of orphans. They are now all in late teens. So need a large vehicle to transport them. She comes back every year to see them. This is my wife and I first time back in 10 years.

Well my first experience driving on the left hand side was not as bad as I thought it would be. It was dark when we picked up the rental car at the airport. Not sure if night and lights helped, but it wasn't too bad. A friend who has driven in Ireland a few time told me his mantra. Wide right, tight left. Served me well. Only problem is I am hugging left curb a bit. Scaring my wife. I am sure that will improve.

Bandwith and data maxes are different things.
A 25.00 MB plan would mean you can only download 25MB of data per month. Do you mean 25 Mbps? A max of 25MB of data per month would be worthless so I think you must mean Mbps. For example since I turned on my computer 45 mins ago, my computer has downloaded 113 MB of data and uploaded 9 MB. The Mbps speed is irrelevant to the total data that is downloaded.
Are you on a cell plan or a satellite plan?. Those are practically the only plans that have data caps. If so what is your data cap? It can not be 25 MBs?
For, example I have a 20 Mbps plan, of which real world speed is about 12 Mbps. These days, this does not even qualify as broadband.
https://www.nbcnews.com/...finition-broadband-speeds-n296276
But, as it is a DSL connection, I do not have a data cap. If I was abusing the service, for example downloading movies all day every day, my service provider might throttle my speed. But we would be talking 100's of GB of data for that to happen.I think the rest of your questions are irrelevant if you are on a standard internet plan. Bandwidth is not something that accumulates. It is the speed data is moving at a particular moment. Unless your plan has a data cap you do not have to worry about the pictures you link to.

Ah yes the photobucket bandwidth issue. Sorry I missed that part the first time. It is a well known problem. There is nothing you can do about it. They are just trying to monetize there service. The changed terms of service a couple years ago. I think their bandwidth cutoff is pretty low. There must be other sites that are a bit more liberal in allowing the viewing of stored images. If they are going to charge at such a low level of actual use then storing images there is cost prohibitive and not worth it.You would have to store images of such low quality that it would not be worth the effort to store there.

Here is photobucket's bullshit explanation. It actually has nothing to do with bandwidth.

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Storage vs. Bandwidth (What's The Difference?)

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Your storage is related to how many images/videos you are uploading to your Photobucket account.

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Your account bandwidth, or linking bandwidth, gauges how many times someone has viewed your linked image on a 3rd party site.

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To further explain, bandwidth is a measure of the resources used to serve (display) media from your Photobucket account to 3rd party sites (like blogs, forums, etc). The size of the image or video will increase the amount of bandwidth you use when you link out to other sites.

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Direct views of your images/videos on Photobucket does not use any bandwidth. Bandwidth is only used when the image is posted outside of Photobucket, which we define this as 3rd party hosting.

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Learn more about 3rd party hosting here.

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Examples of bandwidth usage:

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-Lets say you have 100 photos that are 1MB in size each, and you are linking every single one of them out to your blog/website. 100 images at 1MB in size means that you are linking out just under 100MBs in data size for all those images. Those photos would need to be viewed 100 times a piece to reach 10GB bandwidth.

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-If you only linked out 10 photos that are 1MB in size, those 10 photo would need to be viewed over 10,000 times before you would reach 10GB bandwidth.

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-If you had 10 videos on your blog/website that were 100MBs in size, that would equal out to just under 1GB in file size. If those videos were viewed 100 times total, you would reach 10GB bandwidth.

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