Webspeed Home Broadband
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Benefits of Webspeed Home Broadband ADSL
- "Always-on" Connection - no time wasted dialling in or waiting for dial-up connections.
- Fast Download - Speeds between 10x and 40x (*) - faster than 56k modem.
- E-mail - No need to dial-in to send and receive e-mail. Send and receive large files in a fraction of the time.
- Web - Instant access to Web sites and other online information with fast download speeds delivering files and content quickly, listen to high quality audio in real time, and even watch or download films and video. Use Netmeeting and make video conferencing possible.
- Faster Response Times - Enhanced online gaming, get your bid in just under the wire with ebay.
- Fixed Cost - A fixed monthly charge for your Broadband Internet access. (Voice and fax calls charged separately by your line provider/voice carrier)
- Simultaneous Internet and Phone Access - you can use your phone line for either voice or fax calls while browsing the internet or sending e-mails.
- Contention Ratios - We abide by our contention ratios and uphold our Acceptable Use Policy.
- No Premium Rate Support Charges - We don’t use premium rate lines for our support.
- Dynamic IP address
- Working Online Efficiencies - fast browsing, instant e-mail send and receive, fast file transfer.
* Available at some regional locations - Please see the Business Broadband ADSL
Additional Services
NOT all Broadband ADSL services and their providers are the same
Some of the tricks to be aware of when comparing services are:
- Download Limits eg 1 GB per month - To give you an idea Yahoo's home page is about 70 Kb, An MP3 song is about 4 MB, the same song in .wav format is about 40MB, a full length movie can be 800 MB to 1000 MB that’s 1GB.
- Usage-based charging if you exceed a certain download limit.
- Not so broad Broadband. Is the speed you are paying for consistent!
- Premium rate support lines at anything from 50 ppm to a £1.00 ppm.
- Blocked Game Ports - you will not be able to play online games.
- Does not support VPN - you will not be able to work from home and login to your companies secure network.
- High install rates.
- High Contention Ratios as high as 250:1.
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