Getting the most from your Business Broadband solution
Broadband can be vital to companies and businesses, many companies now use email as their primary form of communication and lots of businesses, especially retail have had to do business online to keep up with the times.
If your business is not already using business broadband or unhappy with your current service then there are a few aspects to your service that you may need to consider to make sure you get the best deal for your money.
The Speed of your connection – In order to get the benefit of faster internet you should look to higher speed connections such as 8mb broadband, some connections are faster such as 24mb or even 50mb.
The Upload as well as download speed – in business you will likely be doing a lot more uploading that a home broadband user, such as uploading page content for a company website. Making sure the upload speed is adequate is important; some providers go up to 600mb in special cases.
Traffic levels (contention ratios) – Of course faster speeds are no good if there are lots of other people vying for bandwidth as well, when choosing a provider it’s worthwhile finding out the contention ratios of all providers and aiming for the ones with the lowest ratios.
Security options – Many broadband providers will nowadays offer deals including anti-virus software to protect your PCs, some business packages though can allocate you online storage space to backup your data should anything happen to your computers or servers like a fire or a flood.
Service Levels – If your business lives on the internet then you will need to be on there 24/7, if your service suffers an outage are you guaranteed that the problem will be fixed in a short space of time? Also will your call be answered straight away by an operator? You should also check the downtime percentages of the company to make sure they are reliable.
Network opportunities – A single connection will only cater to so many computers if the connection is being used between multiple computers on a network. It is worth asking about wireless networking to save having to spend extra money on wiring.
These are just a few points to consider for your business broadband package to make sure you get the most performance for your money. Looking at all the providers out there and seeing which ones cater to businesses is the best way to ensure you get a good deal.
