How truly Unlimited and/or Unmetered is Bandwidth?

[vikassaini01]

There may be Unmetered bandwidth in case the Host is getting Unmetered bandwidth from the datacenter !

But in most cases, Hosts purchase high traffic servers from DC instead of unmetered and sell them as unmetered.

Most of the time, it doesn't affect the enduser until the servers are heavily oversold.

Sometimes, clients gets confused by the word Unmetered. So, Hosts use unlimited word for the ease of clients.

vikassaini01 Reviewed by vikassaini01 on 6th Mar 2012. How truly Unlimited and/or Unmetered is Bandwidth? Hello KWWHunction people I am seeing providers here offering vps with Unlimited - unmetered Bandwidth whereas others with the same money offering Premium Bandwidth of 200 GB, 500 GB, 1 TB etc. Why would someone opt for the ones who offer restricted bandwidth and not the others who offer unlimited and/or unmetered? What exactly is meant by Unlimited or unmetered? is there a catch behind it ? Maybe this is a noob question to most of you, but a clarification, especially by server providers, Rating: 5

[M0neyMan]

There may be Unmetered bandwidth in case the Host is getting Unmetered bandwidth from the datacenter !

But in most cases, Hosts purchase high traffic servers from DC instead of unmetered and sell them as unmetered.

Most of the time, it doesn't affect the enduser until the servers are heavily oversold.

Sometimes, clients gets confused by the word Unmetered. So, Hosts use unlimited word for the ease of clients.

I have never heard of a datacenter or ANY network for that matter to sell "unmetered" bandwidth...it's always 95th percentile.

"unmetered" doesn't get mixed in the equation until 3rd tier hosting and below.