Broadband
Broadband is now available virtually everywhere, often at 8Mbs or faster, and makes a huge difference to the accessibility of Internet Services. No longer do you have to sit waiting for screens to refresh, it happens almost immediately. This makes the Internet a much more viable commercial tool and the volume of business done over the Internet continues to grow almost exponentially.
Which Provider?
There are a bewildering number of service providers who disguise their service offerings behind an impenetrable wall of jargon and acronyms and charge widely differing prices. Let Quintech guide you through the jungle so that you get the right level of service at the right price.
ADSL Definition: Asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) is a form of DSL, a data communications technology that enables faster data transmission over copper telephone lines than a conventional voiceband modem can provide. It does this by utilizing frequencies that are not used by a voice telephone call.[1] A splitter - or microfilter - allows a single telephone connection to be used for both ADSL service and voice calls at the same time. ADSL can generally only be distributed over short distances from the central office, typically less than 4 kilometres (2 mi),[2] but has been known to exceed 8 kilometres (5 mi) if the originally laid wire gauge allows for farther distribution.
At the telephone exchange the line generally terminates at a DSLAM where another frequency splitter separates the voice band signal for the conventional phone network. Data carried by the ADSL is typically routed over the telephone company's data network and eventually reaches a conventional internet network.
SDSL Definition:Symmetric Digital Subscriber Line (SDSL) Short for symmetric digital subscriber line, a technology that allows more data to be sent over existing copper telephone lines (POTS). SDSL supports data rates up to 3 Mbps. SDSL works by sending digital pulses in the high-frequency area of telephone wires and can not operate simultaneously with voice connections over the same wires. SDSL requires a special SDSL modem. SDSL is called symmetric because it supports the same data rates for upstream and downstream traffic.
BT Enhanced Care: For some business customers, broadband is business critical. Enhanced Care provides a package of features to help them get up and running as quickly as possible in the event of a problem.Priority fix - BT Enhanced Care currently resolves the vast majority of broadband faults within 1 hour, however where a fault exists within the broadband local network and requires an engineer to visit, Enhanced Care will ensure prioritisation and aim to fix within 24 hours.
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