Kitz Forum
Broadband Related => Broadband Technology => Topic started by: Sturdy on December 14, 2009, 05:12:44 PM
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What is the difference apart from office having the higher upload?
I have gone with ADSL24 Office 45, but then someone told me that office is different other than the upload?
Can someone please explain the difference,
Thanks.
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Usually the line contention rate is lower for an office connection.20:1 ratio as opposed to 50:1 for a home connection.
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Ah so my line should be better if anything then, guy had me worried that I would be worse off and paying more ???
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As far at the BT Wholesale side of things go the old Office - or Premium as its now called - gets better priority on the BTw part of the network from the Exchange to point of handover to the ISP.
20:1 and 50:1 contention ratios have now gone out of the window and instead replaced with a minimum level and priorities. So say if there was severe congestion at the exchange then its 400 kbps for Home and 800kbps Premium
When I used a BTw based service it was worth it for me to pay the extra for Max Premier as my own exchange historically suffers pretty bad from congestion at peak times. I used to see some pretty low speeds when on 'home' and although I would still see some on premium - it was so much better.
Its worth pointing out that I also saw a shift in hours when congestion was most likely to occur.
When on 'home' it was worst in the early eve.. but when I moved to premium I used to see some busy periods at say about 9am on a monday morning.
The upload was worth it too :)
Its also worth while checking out with the ISP if the Premium products get better priority on their part of network too. Some ISPs do, some dont. Generally speaking - but not always - it refers to the BTw part of the network..
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Thanks for the info kitz ;D