New Internet Comms Provider needed

**Marky** · 22nd February 2008, 14:46

Heres a question for all the IT techies out there.

We are hoping to move to new work premises soon and so we need to sort out a new Internet Comms solution.

We are currently very lucky as we are renting 4MB of bandwith from a neighbouring company.

ADSL will not do as we have a people who work from home and other sites that all connect via VPN so we will be sending out just as much traffic as we receive.

A 2MB SDSL would have been ok for us. But checking our new offices with Bt it turns out we cannot get SDSL.

What are our other options? Is it straight to T1??

Thanks,

Mark

**Vectra-SRI** · 22nd February 2008, 14:58

Hi,

Here in Europe it's E1, and runs at 2.048Mbps
However, have a look at BT's "Flex" Pipe.... it's price is pretty reasonable, and as the name implies can be increased and decresed in Bandwidth at any point.
I think it's starts at 2Mbps, and goes to 12 or 15, can't remember.
Short of this take a look at a DS1 or DS2, however these are only multiples of ISDN. so would need to make sure your Exchange is ISDN Capable first.

Any fatser than that and you could well need the OC Catagory of lines... mega-bucks

Cheers

Matt

**steve** · 22nd February 2008, 15:02

**Marky** · 22nd February 2008, 15:04

Thanks for the reply.

I have looked on the BT.com site and can't find anything related to "flex".
I don't think its a great site to navigate around, they just seem to want to promote ADSL or SDSL.

Is it called anything else??

**Marky** · 22nd February 2008, 15:06

Just done a google search for BT Flex...

... and get a lot of entries like this...
http://www.bodytoners.co.uk/products...one/flexbt.htm

Nice but not what I am after :-)

**Vectra-SRI** · 22nd February 2008, 15:12

Originally Posted by Marky

Just done a google search for BT Flex...

... and get a lot of entries like this...
http://www.bodytoners.co.uk/products...one/flexbt.htm

Nice but not what I am after :-)

Indeed..

I think it's this one now....
http://www2.bt.com/btPortal/applicat...ucts/btnet.xml

Cheers