Hi all,

I am thinking of colocating a PEdge 1650 at a NOC, they provide fully burstable bwidth all the way up to 100s of Mbps. They measure every 30 minutes and take an average for that chunk. If any 3 averages in a month are over my plan (probably 512kbps) they will charge me extra.

My concern is some of my clients have 1Mbps connections and will be FTPing a lot of files etc and some sites will contain streaming media. This could easily mean on some occasions i will go over my limit putting my bandwidth costs through the roof.

so the question is, Can i cap off bandwidth via my NIC or something else per user connection? Also what are peoples experiences paying for percentile bandwidth? Will this be a bad move? should i look for a NOC that will charge for transfer rather than width?

Thanks in adance for any help!.

Sam.

What OS are you using? Also, that is a pretty strange way to measure BW. Who are you looking to colocate with?

Windows 2000 advanced server.
The data center is the largest in London UK and it is split into many different companies suites. The one i have got this quote from is Telehouse Europe.

anyone else had experience with bandwidth measurements like this? The data center suite is extremely nice but obviously the BW charges are a big deciding factor.

Sam.