You may be surprised how little bandwidth is actually needed. I run a fairly good sized message board. We get about 13,000 page views per day and about 5 million total hits per month. I have an 1.5mbs connection up and down and my monitoring software tells me I am at about 10% of my bandwidth most of the time. The siet uses SMF and TinyPortal, with a MYSQL backend. It's a FreeBSD host running on VMware. No issues. DSL provider is Qwest. I hate Cox BTW. I am moving to a new house shortly where I can get a fiber connection to the house at 20mbps. Woohoo! More servers in the rack.
Of course, YMMV.
-Tim
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