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Originally Posted by Kushan
Well sure, but I think nobody's under the illusion that a leased line is generally meant for businesses rather than personal use (unless you've got money to burn). Business broadband I suppose is aimed at smaller businesses that can't quite afford a leased line but still want something with high reliability. It is surprising that Virgin are still only doing 50mbit business though, though I believe you can bond a few of those together?
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Exactly - business broadband is generally considered an unmanaged internet-access only service for businesses that need internet access but short of those who depend on it for their core business - and as you say small businesses of comparable size to average households rather than giant corporates with 200+ staff in each office. An electronics company sending complex designs and simulations to remote manufacturers will have different requirements to a family restaurant receiving bookings over the internet. That said, I recall the average number of employees in a UK business was on the order of... 4 (with the mode being 1), so I'd posit the "average" or vast majority of businesses wanting internet access for their 4 employees will be going for vanilla or business broadband and not even considering a leased line.
Similarly, that'd be my whole point that it's surprising they still only do 50Mb business broadband - though even that had been temporarily halted due to problems with the Superhub a year or two ago, I'm not sure when it resumed but for a while while 100Mb was being rolled out the best you could get on business was 20Mb.
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Originally Posted by craigj2k12
You obviously arent looking in the right places
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That's what she said.