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Business broadband
We are going to move in to a unit soon and I’m wondering what to do about internet access as quite often I send image files to be printed.
Do you have to sign up for the more expensive ‘business’ services in this case and does anyone have any recomendations?
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Business broadband is extortionate compared to residential, ie commercial can be around £30 a week as compared to residential of £25 a month! 😮
If you can sign up to a generic broadband, one that doesn’t care whether you’re business or residential, you’ll be fine, but if you’re forced into the commercial its an expensive do 🙁
Once you have it though, even if you do have to pay at the higher rate, you’ll wonder how you managed without it. It saves so much time on sourcing images, finding that much needed inspiration and keeping in touch with customers more effectively, its worth the money. 😀
Cheers, Dewi
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I have bt business 29.99 + vat p month, its slightly dearer than residential, in fact is the same price but plus vat, they do use a different server, and you dont have to put up with all the crap you get with a residential service, such as having to use ther interface and browser etc
and any problems you dont have to pay premium rate calls to sort them out.
Peter -
Is that the ADSL Peter? I forgot to mention I was meaning cable broadband, probably why theres such a difference in price.
Cheers, Dewi
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yes it is but unless you have remote offices and lots of peeps and workstations you do not need anything else
Peter -
What type of speeds does the ADSL offer? I’m interested as obviously cable can be quite an expensive option, but its an incredible speed, saves many hours on downloading and comes in useful when you’re searching for stuff in multiple search engines at the same time.
Cheers, Dewi
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600 kbs @ 29.99 1meg for 45pm
thats down stream, if you want the same upstream speed it starts to get dear -
Thats a lot quicker than I expected it to be, and the 1mb price is pretty damn good! How do you find it for connection consistency, ie do you notice any drops in speeds at certain times? On cable I’ve noticed a big drop in service around 10am and then again at 3-4ish in the afternoon, I’m presuming its breaktime at the local Internet Cafe :lol1:
Cheers, Dewi
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speed is constant, day or night, sometimes get a glitch, but its normally down to the server at tother end not bt. I had a problem earlier this year which was down to the telephone line, got sorted fairly quickly, and i stay on line 24/7 now. Even if I turn off the puter, Im still connected via router,
and looking at the logs never get disconected -
Hi
I use IzrSolutions
1mg is £29.99 p/m, no limits that i have ever come across. They also have a free support team, who i used, and were excellent (a 1hr call, which they called me back!). Check the web site, unlike a lot out there selling this service, these provide the complete one
08707 44 77 99
Vince
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Gawd Dewi are you makin all these posts on a 56K connection No wonder you struggle for time LOL
Goop
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I run on virgin broadband £25 a month and have a router, share the connection with me brother in law in the farm’s office next door so thats only £12.50 each, you might suggest that with your next door neighbours Dewi save you some dosh 😉 Tim in Wales has a wirless connection from his workshop to his home a mile away (has some kind of aeial thingy outside) and he says it works fine.
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I’m on AOL and it’s very reliable from an availability point of view, BUT be warned that if you want to send non-AOL mail via their SMTP server it’s a total pain in the backside.
They rate limit restrict Port-25 access so in theory you can only send e-mails every 11 minutes or so (in reality try it more than frequently than every 30-minutes and it causes problems). If you accidently send mail more frequently than this you can get ‘locked out’ for 24-hours before it works again. In fact sometimes it just doesn’t work at all and AOL simply will not provide any support. It’s not really an error but their way of ensuring people don’t use AOL to automatically send millions of SPAM e-mails.
You can get round it by using AOL Communicator but why should you have to install their mail client instead of Outlook.
If it wasn’t for the fact I’ve had my family e-mail addresses with AOL for nearly 8-years then I’d change immediately.
Just my experience but don’t use AOL for your business Domain e-mail.
Cheers
Macky D -
I switched to http://www.pipex.net 18months ago and use their 512k service which is all I can get out where I am ! Costs £19.99 a month but I pay anually. It has been faultless ever since – never slow and always available. They were one of the first uk isp’s and so have the knowledge and infrastructure in place that many of the new arrivals dont. I run a wireless router with 3 pc’s and a laptop and often have more than one online at the same time doing something and it seems to cope fine. They dont force any nasty invasive software onto you either so you can run what you like e-mail/browser wise.
Just my experiences anyway 😀
Nigel
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I am a Zen man myself.
Zen have very low contention ratios. You can have a large bandwidth ie 1M but if contention ratios are high and lots trying to use, the service will slow down so you have to consider that aswell I believe.
I maybe talking total rubish but thats my handle on it.Never had a problem yet with my Zen master….lol
Would like to know a little more about your wireless thingy Mr Mallet?
Tim.
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bt connect for me at the unit 29/ m had the odd hic up but frree help – i want BB at home and when i see what is offered for home seams very poor compared – phones 4u homecall looking good so far
chris
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