Is your home broadband slowing down your home working?

After weeks of working remotely, many of us have had to contend with pressures on our household bandwidth. Your house may be situated in a rural area that is poorly served in broadband terms. Or perhaps other members of your household have decided it was a good idea to stream Youtube on one device while online gaming on another during your important video meeting. Because we at SoConnect cater primarily for the business market, we understand the frustrations you may be having matching home working productivity to that of the office. Businesses generally provide dedicated internet to the office building. But, what if your Home Broadband was as reliable as business broadband?

Good Connectivity for all

Successful remote working means utilising cloud applications such as Azure, Microsoft 365, Dropbox, & Adobe. The key to doing this right is with robust connectivity. If you are keeping in touch with your customers at home with a cloud phone system, business broadband is a must. Poor quality connectivity used for VoIP can result in low call quality or even call loss. When a customer is contacting your business, this could be the difference between a profitable sale and harmful lost revenue. The good news is that excellent data services are becoming increasingly available across the UK. Growth in the availability of connectivity services and the number of providers has led to an exponential number of solutions. There are options to suit a variety of budgets and requirements. By installing business-grade broadband in homes, you can ensure that work is carried out as effectively at home as it is in the office.

But what type of connections are suitable? Installing a separate line for business activity at home means that you can be sure that you are not sharing upload and download speeds with the rest of your household.

Business broadband:

• A business-only network: business traffic doesn't have to compete with consumer traffic
• The network is built so that it is resilient to accommodate businesses with multiple sites.
• It should provide sufficient bandwidth to support the size of the business and cloud services/applications used

FTTC (Fibre To The Cabinet):

• Generally known as superfast broadband or fibre broadband.
• FTTC uses fibre which offers far higher transmission rates and resilience than copper.
• Distance between the cabinet and the end-user premises is generally shorter than the distance between the end-user premises the local exchange. 
• Significant increase in bandwidth with no noticeable loss in connection quality.

FTTP (Fibre To The Premises):

• Fibre to the Premises (FTTP, or FTTH - Fibre to the Home) is a broadband technology that provides fast internet speeds.
• The fibre connection from the local exchange connects to the router in your home, which is much quicker than the old copper telephone line used by many other broadband services.
• High speeds of 1Gbps (gigabits per second) or more.

While both Business Broadband and FTTC are widely available across the UK, FTTP continues to be rolled out across the UK at both exchange and cabinet level. However, the right connection can be scaled up or down, depending on your needs.  

To find out more about business broadband at home, and to see what's available in your area, fill out the form below, contact our expert sales team  sales@soconnect.co.uk or call us on 0333 240 1824

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