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Youssef087
Explorer | Level 3
4 years ago

Can you explain the bandwidth/download limit for shared links?

Hello , i intent to use a shared link on a mobile app , the content is only around 5kb , but i dont have an idea about how many times exactly the link will be fetched by users (programmatically) (1...
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Youssef087
Explorer | Level 3
4 years ago

Mark  , what about direct link download ?  there is any limit of many time i can make a download despite not exceeding the daily quota ? 

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4 years ago

Yes - it is exactly the same. There is a limit of 100,000 connections across the whole account. 

 

So thats 100,000 connections across every single shared link/file etc. as well as the bandwidth limits. 

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