Business Broadband

Hi guys

I'm interested to know what people consider to be the most important
factor for business broadband?

Speed? Cost? Reliability? Support? Somthing else?

Cheers

Lewis
www.businessbroadbandblog.co.uk

lasmit wrote:
> Hi guys
>
> I'm interested to know what people consider to be the most important
> factor for business broadband?
>
> Speed? Cost? Reliability? Support? Somthing else?

Well personally if I was running a business, the most important factors
would be reliability and support. But then it would depend on the
business type. I might run a business that relies heavily on sending
huge files to others. If that were the case then maybe reliability and
speed. After all if your connection is reliable in the first place most
of the time there would no need for support.

"lasmit" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hi guys
>
> I'm interested to know what people consider to be the most important
> factor for business broadband?
>
> Speed? Cost? Reliability? Support? Somthing else?

Contention is an important factor too.

Also one that doesn't firewall your internet connection etc....So you can
manage your own firewall.

One that doesn't make you hop 50 million hosts before you reach the
destination you require....

One that gives you flexibility to get multiple external IP addresses etc.

Support - not too much of an issue IMO, generally don't need to contact
them.

An asymeteric line, e.g. 2Mb up and down.

We use newnet in our office because the first hop data centre is only about
2 miles away [and fast!]. Also, all our staff use newnet at home because
they then get an incredibly fast link to the office vpn.

On 19 Oct 2006, "Darren" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>An asymeteric line, e.g. 2Mb up and down.

errrr ? Looks like you mean SDSL... not ADSL...

"NoNeedToKnow" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> On 19 Oct 2006, "Darren" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
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>>An asymeteric line, e.g. 2Mb up and down.
>
> errrr ? Looks like you mean SDSL... not ADSL...


oooops yes

Darren <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
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> An asymeteric line, e.g. 2Mb up and down.
>
That's symmetric[al].

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Chris Green

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"lasmit" <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:
> Hi guys
>
> I'm interested to know what people consider to be the most important
> factor for business broadband?

It will depend to some extend on the business's requirements.

> Speed? Cost? Reliability? Support? Somthing else?

Reliability, ISP monitoring, 24x7 support, and time to fix.

I was providing 24x7 on-call support to my employer's customers,
and expected the same service from the ADSL line. We used BT
Openworld Business broadband, and up to the time I ceased it
(2 years ago), it was meeting the requirements. BT usually
noticed there was a problem before I did, and always fixed it
within a few hours (even on Friday nights and weekends -- I
think those were the only times it ever went wrong;-).
I'm not on-call anymore, but I am just signing up my on-call
staff with the same service.

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Andrew Gabriel