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Lets say someone offers 10mb/sec -- optimially, you'll be able to push about 2500gb through that before you start seeing packet loss or sluggishness at the peaks. Bandwidth isn't constant throughout the day, so you have to buy for those peaks.

Lets say the same offer is for 3000gb (or 3 terabytes), but, you're connected to a 100mb/sec switch port and are not capped. You could burst up to the full 100mb/sec for 2-3 days and then sit around 4mb/sec the rest of the month.

A hun listing of a video gallery will sometimes spike around 17-20mb/sec, but, if you have the capped 10mb/sec solution, your surfers will get slow response.

If you look at your existing bandwidth graphs and pay attention to the peaks, you should be able to figure out whether you'll be able to use a capped bandwidth package or not. If over the month you rarely/never go over the 10mb/sec mark, then you could probably use that with no problem.