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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
I beg to disagree, the average webserver now days will be on a 100mbit port and is more then capable of maxing out a 3mbit line.
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The "average" webserver will be on nothing like a dedicated 100mbps connection.
A few large companies will have servers on 'real' 100mbps connections, but the majority do not. Even a 10mbps connection in a typical Datacentre will cost thousands per year - well out of the reach of the majority of companies.
Many servers may appear to be on 100mbit, but that's only because they have 100mbps NIC cards, they are throttled by the routers & switches they connect to in the DC. Many data centres only have a few 155mbps lines into them to serve hundreds of servers.
I suggest you look at places like fasthosts, memset, mailbox and the many other providers of dedicated servers in the uk (and us) and see just what you can get, and the prices. (here is an example from
mailbox uk)