Fastest business broadband for £100 a month or less?

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I'm looking for a new business broadband package but I have no idea where to look. I currently have Virgin Media Business and have been very happy with the service but I want faster speeds.

I see I can get 500Mbps down and 35Mbps up for £63 on Virgin Media Business with 5 static IP addresses which will be really useful but no IPv6 support. Is there anything out with a similar spec that also offers at least 1 static IP address and IPv6 support?
 
What do you want IPv6 support for?

And without knowing if you have Openreach FTTP or any other alt-FTTP provider available, no one can recommend who your other choices are for speed :p

If you had actual FTTP then you’d potentially get 1Gb but then have to consider if they have business plans and good support too. Let alone IPv6 as well

You may find without FTTP, in terms of speed then VM could well be your only choice anyway.
 
I live in Redhill, Surrey. The first part of the post code is RH1. Is that enough information to find out what is available? I have no idea how to check.

Thanks for the replies. I need IPv6 support because I'll be building out a server farm with it (and IPv4) and want to make sure IPv6 is working well too.
 
The numbers are the important bit, you shouldn't get a warning triangle if you've picked the property from the drop-down.

If the numbers are in line with Virgin though (stopping at 35Mbps up) then that would indicate your only option is Virgin Media.
 
Caged said:
The numbers are the important bit, you shouldn't get a warning triangle if you've picked the property from the drop-down.

If the numbers are in line with Virgin though (stopping at 35Mbps up) then that would indicate your only option is Virgin Media.
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OK. Thank you very much for your help.

I'll sign up with Virgin Media Business tomorrow. Having said that I've been impressed at how well my phone works as a WiFi hotspot on a 4G Vodaphone SIM card with unlimited data.
 
If you need IPv6 and a static IP address I'd be tempted to take the normal consumer Virgin Media service and then shove everything through a tunnel to an endpoint you host somewhere else. VMB's static IP service is complete trash, the throughput you get off it is easily 100Mbps less than the actual service you're on.

Virgin Media is a physical cable infrastructure that is capable of delivering excellent throughput, but it's then plugged into a company that is among the least competent you will ever have to deal with.
 
Before you sign up for Virgin Business, can I suggest you give Daisy a ring? Your £100/month budget won’t get you a 500Mpbs leased line but it will get you something significantly more stable. I’d rather have a 50Mbps symmetrical leased line than 1Gbps from Virgin.
 
WJA96 said:
Before you sign up for Virgin Business, can I suggest you give Daisy a ring? Your £100/month budget won’t get you a 500Mpbs leased line but it will get you something significantly more stable. I’d rather have a 50Mbps symmetrical leased line than 1Gbps from Virgin.
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I didn't even know a leased line was an option at all for £100 a month.
 
It might not be, but you won’t know until you ring them up.

Is £100/month a hard limit? If it was £250/month would it matter?
 
WJA96 said:
It might not be, but you won’t know until you ring them up.

Is £100/month a hard limit? If it was £250/month would it matter?
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Unfortunately, it is a hard limit. In fact, I'm pushing it at £100 a month as it is. I haven't started yet. I'm still building the website but I'm about to start trying to get a few people interested with a landing page and I don't want to be worrying about using a mobile phone WiFi hotspot when I'm trying to launch a business at the same time hence me looking into it now.
 
So are you sending data to people or just receiving it?

What I consistently find with internet speeds vs. expectations is that it’s the transmission up speed that kills the experience.
 
WJA96 said:
So are you sending data to people or just receiving it?

What I consistently find with internet speeds vs. expectations is that it’s the transmission up speed that kills the experience.
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The Virgin Media Business package I was looking at was 35Mbps upload whereas on my 4G connection I get 7.70Mbps upload. That extra upload speed will make a huge difference when uploading things to servers on a daily basis. It might not be as good as a symmetrical leased line but it is the fastest "normal" business broadband I have found. I'm still open to suggestions though. It has been years since I shopped for an ISP and never from a business perspective before.
 
Daisy and Zen would my go-to people on this sort of thing.

The current Top FTTP offer from Zen is 900/110 for £70/month. That can be IPv4 with a single fixed IP address or you can have a bundle of IPv6 addresses.
 
WJA96 said:
Daisy and Zen would my go-to people on this sort of thing.

The current Top FTTP offer from Zen is 900/110 for £70/month. That can be IPv4 with a single fixed IP address or you can have a bundle of IPv6 addresses.
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Just had a look at both of their sites and neither of them beat Virgin Media Business for me because it appears that FTTP is not available in my area, unfortunately.
 
Why not give Daisy a ring and have a chat? What do you have to lose? 10 minutes of your day?
 
The bearer for a leased line costs more than £100 a month to buy from Openreach so I doubt an ISP can sell you a service below that price.
 
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