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I am currently looking for a serviced office for our business - we are currently all home-workers that rely on remote access to some servers in my home. The benefit of the office will partly be to relocate these servers into a serviced office with improved internet (bandwidth) and physical access (or at least is the theory). Current access is provided by ADSL consistently achieving ~4.5mbps down, ~0.75 up. I assumed that internet provided by a serviced office would be better however this doesn't always appear to be the case. On the surface it seems that serviced office internet access is generally more expensive and slower when compared with residential fibre/ADSL (I do understand that improved SLA, support, etc are a factor in the price difference).
Most serviced offices offer contended and uncontended (leased) options. I've seen opinions in marketing material such as this "speed of 0.5 MBps dedicated bandwidth would be the equivalent of at least 20 Mbp" - however given that BT provides contention on a national level with most users achieving the rated bandwidth these sort of claims seem unconvincing - and thus contended access may be good enough. Is "contended access" in a service office environment much worse that that provided by national providers of residential broadband? I.e. 10Mbps contended in a service office may only provide consistently at least 4mbps where a 10mbps residential line will likely achieve around that figure? Am I comparing apples against pears?
I'm generally interested in hearing of any experience in this area or gotchas - I don't want to be stuck in an office where the network access is not good enough or prohibitively expensive.
Most serviced offices offer contended and uncontended (leased) options. I've seen opinions in marketing material such as this "speed of 0.5 MBps dedicated bandwidth would be the equivalent of at least 20 Mbp" - however given that BT provides contention on a national level with most users achieving the rated bandwidth these sort of claims seem unconvincing - and thus contended access may be good enough. Is "contended access" in a service office environment much worse that that provided by national providers of residential broadband? I.e. 10Mbps contended in a service office may only provide consistently at least 4mbps where a 10mbps residential line will likely achieve around that figure? Am I comparing apples against pears?
I'm generally interested in hearing of any experience in this area or gotchas - I don't want to be stuck in an office where the network access is not good enough or prohibitively expensive.
