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Broadband Options

Broadband can offer many improved features over dial-up including:

  • Up to 145x faster than Dial up
  • Keep your phone lines open. Broadband lets your phone and Internet connection share one line, so you can use both at the same time.
  • No more dialling up. It's always on - so you don't have to dial up each time.


500KBS / 1MB / 2MB Broadband Connections are available in both Home and Office products. (Home 50:1, Office 20:1 Contention Ratio) with no download limits. Ideal if you are a regular user of the internet and do not want to be restricted to the amount you download. Prices

Broadband Max Capped Allowance

For customers who use the Internet regularly and want to have the fastest speed available to them, currently up to 8Mb. Customers choose the amount of transfer they require for a set fee and will be charged accordingly for any additional transfer used. Prices

Broadband Max PAYG

The Entanet Pay As You Go options are for users who don't use the Internet regularly, but when they do they want the fastest speed possible. Entanet will provision the connection on the fastest speed that is available on the line, up to 8Mb. 1GB Transfer is included in the monthly charge and each additional 1GB that is used is charged on the next monthly invoice. Prices              

FAQ 

What is a contention ratio?

Contention ratio refers to the maximum number of users you could be sharing your bandwidth with. There are 2 contention ratios in use by Entanet, 50:1 and 20:1. If you have a 50:1 contention ratio then in theory another 49 users could be competing for the 512kb you have. In practice this very rarely happens and even on the slowest ADSL product users typically see a 10x improvement over a 56k modem.

What are usage allowances?
A monthly usage allowance is the maximum amount of data (web pages, photos, music tracks, emails etc) that you can transfer across the Internet every month. This includes both downloading and uploading data (e.g. receiving and sending emails, surfing the Internet and uploading pages to your webspace).

Broadband Speeds

256K? 1.5Mb? What do the numbers mean? What speed do I need? When we're talking about Internet connection speeds, things can be really confusing! For a start, Internet transfer speeds are measured in kilobits per second and megabits per second, and those are not the same as the kilobytes and megabytes we use when we're talking about hard disks and files. Let's not worry about the numbers. What matters is how they apply to the kinds of things you'll do on the Internet. Here's a table to make it simple:

 
Internet Connection Speed Time to load a typical web page
(assuming 100 kilobytes of data) 		Time to download a typical 5-minute song
(assuming a 5 megabyte MP3 file) 		Streaming Video Quality
56K dial-up modem 14 sec 12 min 30 sec
256K broadband 3 sec 3 min Low Quality
512K broadband 1.6 sec 1 min 30 sec
1Mb broadband 0.8 sec 41 sec
2Mb broadband 0.4 sec 20 sec Medium Quality
4Mb broadband 0.1 sec 5 sec
6Mb broadband Instantaneous Instantaneous
8Mb broadband Instantaneous Instantaneous TV Quality
Note: all figures are approximate and represent best-case download speeds. Actually speeds will generally be lower.

So you can see that an entry level 512K broadband Internet connection is around ten times faster than a 56K dial-up Internet connection, , allowing you to view web pages with barely any noticeable delay, whereas with an 8Mb broadband connection, you could watch TV quality video over the web!

 

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