| There are providers out there you make sure they have bandwidth to spare, that's for sure. I worked at two local ISP's who did that. One made sure they had enough bandwidth so that even if all their customers (residential and business) blasted the max their would still only be 75% saturation of total available bandwidth. The other had it at about 50% saturation. The big boys are probably the ones who will likely oversell their bandwidth in certain areas. Like Nightfall said it's better to check the ISP in question on how they handle your area. SBC at one time only had 3 T3's to handle ALL of their customers in the Austin area. |
