I believe bandwidth is based on your amount of Steem Power. So yes, you can put $100 into fixing the issue! Buy some Steem and just power it up or exchange on the internal market for SP.
Since I think you're kind of new to crypto, the easy way to do this is to get something like a Binance or Coinbase account, purchase some mainline crypto (Bitcoin, BitcoinCash, Ethereum, or Litecoin) and use that to purchase Steem through blocktrades.us (they're very on board with the Steem platform and have a Steem account via @blocktrades).
Hope that helps!
Actually all you should do @styxhexenhammer is spend a few months just posting your normal content and doing an introduce yourself post as well. You will easily be sitting on 2000-3000 steem power by then. at that point you will be ready for the typical crypto bull run that happens near the end of the year. You will have roughly 20 grand worth of steem power to do everything you want to do.
Yeah, but he seemed eager to resume uploading right away.