Faster Connection
A broadband Internet connection is much faster than a standard dial-up line. A range of speeds are available, but as a rough guide a standard broadband connection can be ten times faster than dial-up.
This gain in speed allows you to receive ten times more data through a broadband link in a given time. This helps your business in several different ways:
- Large files can be downloaded in seconds rather than minutes or even, in the worst case, hours.
- Complicated documents, images and brochures can be emailed rather than mailed or faxed.
- Software upgrades and updates can be downloaded in moments, making it much easier to keep ahead of security threats, for example.
You can see the effects that the extra speed has in our speed test animation. However in practice, if an email attachment or a data file takes 5 minutes to download using a dial-up connection, the job will be done in around 20 seconds using broadband. Click on image to see speed test animation.
The extra speed of the broadband connection introduces the potential for:
- Viewing high-quality movies, images and graphics.
- Holding online meetings.
- Using video and audio-conferencing.
- Introducing web-based security cameras.
- Loading web pages in an instant.
The above advantages translate into significant business benefits.