Title: Bandwidth Question
Last modified: March 25, 2020

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# Bandwidth Question

 *  Resolved [SkillsUSA](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skillsusa/)
 * (@skillsusa)
 * [6 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bandwidth-question-2/)
 * I’ve been using this plugin to feature albums from our Flickr account. Up until
   yesterday, I was using a slideshow on our home page to highlight some recent 
   events. I’ve noticed an uptick in our bandwidth usage each month since I’ve been
   doing this.
 * Does this plugin pull the photos in full resolution from Flickr? Will I be able
   to decrease our usage by having the gallery set to a fixed number of images instead
   of scrolling through all of the images in our album?
 * Thanks for any insights you can provide.
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fbandwidth-question-2%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Author [Sayontan Sinha](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sayontan/)
 * (@sayontan)
 * [6 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bandwidth-question-2/#post-12583998)
 * > Does this plugin pull the photos in full resolution from Flickr? Will I be 
   > able to decrease our usage by having the gallery set to a fixed number of images
   > instead of scrolling through all of the images in our album?
 * Actually Photonic doesn’t pull any images of any size! Literally all that happens
   is that Photonic does a web-service call to figure out what your images are. 
   The net data transfer in the web-service calls is plain-text, which is a few 
   KB at the most (very much less than the data in a single image).
 * After Photonic figures out what the images are, it builds out its markup for 
   display to the end-user. And only when the markup is presented to the end user
   is the photo displayed in the user’s browser … and this bypasses your server 
   completely and hits Flickr directly. In a way your site is hot-linking to Flickr
   photos using Flickr’s APIs.
 * So, regardless of your image size, Photonic will never spike bandwidth usage.
 *  Thread Starter [SkillsUSA](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skillsusa/)
 * (@skillsusa)
 * [6 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bandwidth-question-2/#post-12584002)
 * Thank you!

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 * Last reply from: [SkillsUSA](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skillsusa/)
 * Last activity: [6 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bandwidth-question-2/#post-12584002)
 * Status: resolved