I created my account today and while doing so I encountered a problem after receiving the approval mail.

After receiving my password i got the following error:

4100000 plugin_exception: plugin exception
Account: steem bandwidth limit exceeded. Please wait to transact or power up STEEM.

No matter how often I tried, I was not able to finish the process.

After a while of research I found out that the Steemit account, that creates the new account, exceeded the bandwith limit - not my own account (how? it was not created yet). Therefore: WAIT a while and try it again, there is nothing you can do about it besides waiting. About an hour later I tried again and it worked :)