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On Mon, 28 Dec 2009, Edwin Rhodes wrote:
hi Gordon, thanks for your email, you mentioned busyness adsl connections, how much do you recon they are? current link is BT ed.
Well, I pay £25.75+VAT a month for mine. (I also pay BT £12 a month for the phone line required too, and I pay, er, myself for phone calls made) My ISP is Entanet. That gives me up to 24Mb/sec, depending on what my exchange supports (only 8Mb right now, bah!), and a data cap of 45GB a month at peak times, unlimited off-peak.
Don't forget that you may have BT copper to the premises, but that still gives you the choice of well over 100 ISPs to choose from, who use the BT Wholesale network.
BT offer 2 traffic priorities over their wholesale network - they used to be labeled as 50:1 and 20:1 for residentail and business respectively. These days the metrics are somewhat different, but the idea is similar - a business grade line will have a bigger chunk of the pie than a residential line, and usually a business line will have up to 832Kb/sec upload speed, whereas a residential line has up to 440Kb/sec upload speed. (With ADSL2+ the numbers are bigger, and they call the business service "elevated service levels".
So check your max. speed avalable and what your exchange has (use the samknows site), and pick an ISP....
One thing you typically won't get though is bundled phone and broadband deals with inclusive calls, etc. - which BT and a few others are good at, so you may have to split your phone and ADSL bills - and expect to pay a little more. It's something I'm prepared to do, but it's hard to justify - sometimes - when working from home.
And then again, you can get space on a shared server for under £25 a month, and even a whole virtual machine for under that too, so you have many choices these days...
Gordon
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