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Business broadband, full fibre, SoGEA and leased lines, plus failover and staying online.
22 articles
Businesses check the rent and the parking, not what the building can get. Finding only SOGEA or a leased line after signing is the…
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Most advice treats 5G as a backup. When it genuinely works as your main business line, when it does not, and how it compares…
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Four names, same providers, often the same street. What really differs: whether the line is shared, how fast uploads are, and what is promised…
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How automatic failover actually works, what kit it needs, how long the switch takes, and the three things that quietly stop it working on…
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Worried switching provider will take you offline or lose your number? It should not. Here is what actually happens when you switch business broadband…
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Got “full fibre not available at your address”? It is far from the end of the road. Here are the real options, SOGEA, a…
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Why installs into shared offices slip, what a wayleave is, and the questions to ask your landlord before you order a line into a…
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How much is a leased line? The honest answer is: it depends. Here is exactly what drives leased line cost, from distance to fibre…
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You pay for a fast package but the speed test shows a fraction of it. Here is why, honestly: advertised vs guaranteed speeds, Wi-Fi,…
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Business broadband vs home broadband: the line can be the same fibre, so what are you really paying for? We compare contention, fix-time guarantees,…
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Plenty of businesses believe they are protected because they have "a second line". It is a comforting thought right up until the day both…
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What a reboot actually clears, why it fixes things only temporarily, and how often is too often. If you reboot weekly, here is what…
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A vague fault report makes support start from zero. The details that speed up a fix, from timings and router lights to speed tests,…
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Power, DSL, LOS, WAN, LAN and Wi-Fi: what each colour and flash means on a business router, and exactly what to tell support before…
Read more →It is a busy Saturday lunchtime. The queue is out the door, the card machine is beeping in that unhappy way, and the screen…
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Not every business needs failover, and not every business needs the same kind. How to work out what an outage really costs, and which…
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Buy too little and everything crawls; buy too much and you pay for capacity you never use. How to size business broadband by activity…
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Here is the question we get asked more than any other about leased lines: "How quickly can it be in?" It is a fair…
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Most businesses never use a gigabit. Where the extra speed genuinely helps, where it changes nothing, and the upload figure that matters more than…
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Which number is actually causing your problem. What Mbps, upload, latency and ping each do, and the figures a business needs for calls, cloud…
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SOGEA, FTTP, leased lines, 4G/5G or Line of Sight? A plain-English guide to the flavours of business broadband and how to match the right…
Read more →You have probably seen the word "leased line" on a quote and wondered what makes it worth talking about. The honest answer is one…
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