EFM - Speed Vs Bandwidth

satanicguardian · 3 Sep 2014 at 11:47

Ah ok, I'm hoping it's just a rare occurrence then? Or is this commonplace?

nutcase · 3 Sep 2014 at 13:50

Not commonplace fortunately. We have a number of voice assured (but connection not?) ADSL lines with them.

Total downtime wasn't far off 24 hours :eek:

satanicguardian · 3 Sep 2014 at 15:17

nutcase_1uk said:
Not commonplace fortunately. We have a number of voice assured (but connection not?) ADSL lines with them.

Total downtime wasn't far off 24 hours

That's quite a lot for in one go! Could cause chaos to some businesses :eek:

Yeah the Horizon I'm sorting out will be assured on the EFM :O

nutcase · 3 Sep 2014 at 19:31

It did us - 6 offices all running off 1 mobile each office. The irony is the provider insisted we should use them as our existing ISP wasn't reliable enough. 1-0 to our ISP so far!

satanicguardian · 4 Sep 2014 at 09:16

nutcase_1uk said:
It did us - 6 offices all running off 1 mobile each office. The irony is the provider insisted we should use them as our existing ISP wasn't reliable enough. 1-0 to our ISP so far!

Haha!

To be fair, if it's just a salesman saying that, they're just basing it on the statistics/marketing gumpf that they are told to say.

I used to sell VF One Net; "Never miss a call!", "Constantly Connecting", "99.9% up time".. etc. etc... the system must have crashed 6 times in the first few months of it being available, leaving me to feel like a right tw*t after quoting Vodafone - since then I've never sold a product I haven't tested the crap out of myself!

nutcase · 4 Sep 2014 at 13:33

Funny you should say that - when we were shopping for a phone system we narrowed it down to Horizon or OneNet - from what we can tell we were better off with Horizon than OneNet despite the outage!

satanicguardian · 4 Sep 2014 at 14:01

nutcase_1uk said:
Funny you should say that - when we were shopping for a phone system we narrowed it down to Horizon or OneNet - from what we can tell we were better off with Horizon than OneNet despite the outage!

Miles better with Horizon, OneNet is awful!

Janesy B · 4 Sep 2014 at 22:06

I think you may be better off getting the 2Mbps EFM line for VOIP and then getting an ADSL for data as long as upload isn't critical. Plenty of cheap decent load balancing routers around. Having 10 users working with phones and internet on a 2/4Mbps line will just wind up with people moaning at you constantly until that fibre gets in.

satanicguardian said:
Hey guys, fibre is a possibility in the area but it's very expensive. You mention about openreach etc not being able to fix it etc. "Apparently", because the EFM is going to be installed and assured by Gamma, there's SLA's in place because they own every part of the infrastructure, limiting downtime?

The only benefit would be less hops to Gamma and slightly lower latency. Gamma won't own everything up to the termination point.