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@@ -34,7 +34,11 @@ You can use an IPFS gateway to view a list of all the files in that directory fr
 
 If you want to link directly to a file within that directory, just add the file path after the CID portion of the link. For example: [bafybeidd2gyhagleh47qeg77xqndy2qy3yzn4vkxmk775bg2t5lpuy7pcu.ipfs.w3s.link/not-distributed.jpg](https://bafybeidd2gyhagleh47qeg77xqndy2qy3yzn4vkxmk775bg2t5lpuy7pcu.ipfs.w3s.link/not-distributed.jpg) could be used as a shareable link for your new favorite wallpaper.
 
-You can easily fetch any data stored using web3.storage using an IPFS HTTP gateway. Because IPFS is a peer-to-peer, decentralized network, you can use any public HTTP gateway to fetch your data. In this guide, we'll use the gateway at `w3s.link`, but you can see more worldwide gateways on the [IPFS Public Gateway Checker](https://ipfs.github.io/public-gateway-checker/).
+You can easily fetch any data stored using web3.storage using an IPFS HTTP gateway. Because IPFS is a peer-to-peer, decentralized network, you can use any public HTTP gateway to fetch your data. In this guide, we'll use the gateway at `w3s.link` (which is optimized for content stored on web3.storage), but you can see more worldwide gateways on the [IPFS Public Gateway Checker](https://ipfs.github.io/public-gateway-checker/).
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+<Callout>
+w3link (`https://ipfs.w3s.link/*`) has a rate limit of 200 requests per minute by IP.
+</Callout>
 
 When you [store data using the web3.storage client][howto-store], the `put` method returns an [IPFS content identifier (CID)][ipfs-docs-cid] string. That CID points to an IPFS directory that contains all the files you passed in using the `put` method.