I was looking at a friend’s homepage that she hasn’t updated in years and something kind of odd happened: after looking at about half the site (with lots of pics of her, maybe 20 jpgs, not huge pics but not tiny either) Yahoo froze the site for 1 hour and gave an error saying the bandwidth limmit had been reached for that site. She was browsing it at the same time too, but still I can’t understand why yahoo would put such a low limmit on their bandwidth, anyways we were both wondering how many KB or megs can be transfered before Geocities freezes the site for an hour. We couldn’t find it in their FAQ or help system, though perhaps its hidden in there somewhere.
You get 3GB a month, they may call a month 720 hours, and then calculate the hourly bandwidth as (quota remaining) / (hours remaining). This could result in a very small hourly allowance e.g. 4MB. if indeed they did do it that way.
Why such a small amount? BW is free to the webmaster, not it’s not free to yahoo. Yahoo is a business not a charity.
It’s common for a personal website to get fewer than 10 visitors a day. You said the jpgs were neither large or small, but readers of your post no idea what actual weight they may be–different folks have different views of what medium means.