What does Un-metered 10 mbps Network Connection mean?
Does it mean unlimit bandwidth base on 10mbps connection or only 3200 GB/month ?

i need a dedicated server with atleast 5000+gigs of bandwidth a month , can Un-metered 10 mbps server handle the traffic ?

Any advise? Thanks!!

Originally posted by xxxman888
What does Un-metered 10 mbps Network Connection mean?
Does it mean unlimit bandwidth base on 10mbps connection or only 3200 GB/month ?

i need a dedicated server with atleast 5000+gigs of bandwidth a month , can Un-metered 10 mbps server handle the traffic ?

Any advise? Thanks!!

No, it won't. Unmetered just means they don't care how much you push, up to the max capability of the line which is 10 Mbps.

To push 5000+ GB/month you're going to be peaking at around 20 Mbps. Bear in mind that although 1 Mbps can, in theory, do 320 gigs a month, you have to allow for the natural curve of traffic from peak to off-peak which carries approximately a 1.7:1 ratio. Also, if you are filling your line and flattening your graph, the quality of traffic will be very poor due to packet loss.

Bottom line--get a server on a 100 Mbps connection.

20Meg unmetered server would do it, but I think a 100meg machine would do your job better!

Affordability wise, if you need high traffic and 5000+ gb/mnth then just go with the 10mbit solution and slow your downloads a little.

Originally posted by UH-Matt
Affordability wise, if you need high traffic and 5000+ gb/mnth then just go with the 10mbit solution and slow your downloads a little.

I'm not sure I understand what you're suggesting. No matter how much he "slows his downloads" each 1 Mbps is only capable of a maximum of around 330 GB/month at 100% capacity all month long in a 30.4 day month, thus 10 Mbps would max at approximately 3300 GB which is over 5 Mbps short of 5000 GB. That is assuming you want to run your circuits pegged at full capacity all day long... what am I missing?

You can't really do 10Mbps with a 10baseHD link. You'll flatline closer to 9Mbps, and at that point you'll be hurting in terms of packet loss/collisions.

Find an ISP that can handle traffic shaping. A bandwidth shaper can do wonders to keep traffic managed. For example, I have a customer that moves about 7TB (7000GB). Without a shaper, they would probably be moving closer to 10TB. What we do is alter the rates based on various rules. For instance, they need their video streams to always have enough bandwidth (300kbps per stream), but they don't want to let people download files at above 16KB/s (128kbps). And they also need to have their pay customers download at higher rates (up to 500kbps).

If you have to move a lot of data, it doesn't always have to be done real fast. Think about large files.. if it is going to take someone 4 hours to download a file, does it hurt you or them that much if it takes 5 hours instead?

Well, if you're paying per GB, the only thing shaping does for you is cause people getting slow downloads to give up, cancel their download, and go away. If you move three apples from my bucket to your bucket, no matter how you cut them up, its still 3 apples.