| There aren't many businesses nowadays who | | | | more expensive deal can also prevent against |
| don't utilise the internet in one form or another. | | | | hackers who could possibly steal financial details |
| Large corporations may use it to communicate | | | | and staff information. |
| with their many members of staff, and a smaller | | | | Speed is important, with more upload speed |
| business might use it for market research | | | | needed than on a domestic package. An uncapped |
| purposes. | | | | download limit it useful as it's likely that a lot of |
| First of all, a company will need to sign up to a | | | | downloading will be taking place, especially if you |
| business broadband package. Domestic packages | | | | have a lot of employees. |
| don't have the same features and flexibility as | | | | Consider how many computers will need to be |
| business ones, as domestic users don't have the | | | | connected together on a LAN, and make sure |
| same needs as a company. | | | | you have an option to expand as more |
| The main benefit to a business connection is the | | | | employees join the company. You can also have |
| technical support you receive. When a home | | | | the option of connecting to offices in different |
| connection goes down, it's an inconvenience but | | | | parts of the country. VoIP (Voice over Internet |
| when a business connection goes down, it can | | | | Protocol) is useful for this type of setup. It's a |
| mean loss of revenue and customers, so it's vital | | | | way of using broadband internet as a phone line, |
| that proper technical support is provided. A | | | | and communicating between machines with VoIP |
| business package should provide a company with | | | | software instead of making phone calls. Calls |
| 24 hour access to a helpline, quick engineer | | | | between computers with the same software are |
| call-out and even remote assistance if necessary. | | | | usually free so it's cheaper for businesses to |
| Some providers offer a backup service which will | | | | communicate with each other in this way. |
| keep the servers running on dial-up while the | | | | As with anything, do some research first into the |
| broadband is being fixed. | | | | different business broadband deals around, and |
| Security is another concern for company internet. | | | | make sure you get one which will suit your |
| While the cheap broadband business packages | | | | business best. |
| may only offer the basic security and anti-virus, a | | | | |