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Author Topic: Office or Home ADSL?  (Read 2829 times)

Sturdy

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Office or Home ADSL?
« on: December 14, 2009, 05:12:44 PM »

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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UncleUB

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Re: Office or Home ADSL?
« Reply #1 on: December 14, 2009, 05:59:53 PM »

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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Re: Office or Home ADSL?
« Reply #2 on: December 14, 2009, 06:07:44 PM »

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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Re: Office or Home ADSL?
« Reply #3 on: December 15, 2009, 01:32:40 PM »

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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Re: Office or Home ADSL?
« Reply #4 on: December 15, 2009, 04:37:47 PM »

Thanks for  the info kitz  ;D
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