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Business Broadband

Are you running a small business and planning to install broadband for your company? For business use, I recommend business broadband.

Business broadband cost more. But if the broadband is shared by several people,  business broadband certainly has its advantage that home broadband doesn't have. Business broadband reaches a higher standard in almost all specifications such as speed, connection ratio, stability and so on. Business broadband are serving all the people in a company, maybe ten, maybe ten thousand. So the speed of home broadband surely can't meet the requirement of a company. And no boss is glad to see the broadband breaks down for one hour when communicating with customers.

One term is called connection ratio, to which most people have little concept in mind. Usually, the connection ratio for home broadband is 50:1, which means 50 people at most will share the same line between the local exchange and the ISP center. While to business broadband, the normal connection ratio is 20:1. So, only 20 customers at most will share the bandwidth. So, business broadband is faster than home broadband in busy hours. For example, one home broadband and one business broadband, both of them are 8Mb broadband. In peak time, the speed of business broadband can reach 2.5 times the speed of that home broadband.  

Another advantage is that business broadband usually offer faster upload speed than home broadband. The upload speed of business broadband is usually above 400Kb.

In the past, companies needed to contact broadband ISPs when they need business broadband. Broadband providers then give the company some choices or recommend some solutions according to the company. To the owner of some small business, it seems a little troublesome.

Now you can purchase business broadband just like choosing home broadband. And these deals are not very expensive. Such deals are suitable for small or midium sized enterprises, not for big companies with thousands of employees. To big companies, what they need is LAN, not such business broadband. They have to enquire the broadband ISP.

Of course, high standard means high cost!

The major broadband ISPs offer business broadband include PlusNet Broadband, NamesCo Broadband, Eclipse Broadband and Demon Broadband. Be (Bethere) Broadband offers 24 Mb/s unlimited broadband which is also fast enough to business use. But some large broadband companies, such as BT broadband, AOL broadband don't provide such business broadband.