Back when we were colocating, we payed X for a max throughput speed of Y. Data could flow no faster than that max throughput, and we paid the same rate every month for that.

Now we've got our own datacenter but have contracted with a managed network provider in the same building, and we pay a set fee per GB of transfer. When one of our customers' site traffic spikes, data flows as fast as our provider's infrastructure can route it.

In the poll, by 'throttled', I mean you pay a set price every month, and if you hit the speed limit, things just slow down. This could mean you have a 128kb/s throttling on your colo'd box, or it could mean you have your own telco lines and you add capacity as necessary.

By 'metered', I mean you're actually paying for bandwidth used.

If 'other', please post an explanation.

Thanks!