It’s critical that a business not only choose an internet package with a suitable amount of bandwidth but also choose a package meant for use by a business.

All too often small businesses get residential grade internet connections in order to save money without realizing that if there connection goes down they can wait as long as a week before a technician will come down to fix it for them.

For some businesses that’s fine, but for others it’s worth paying the extra cash to have same day service.

Let alone the fact that most ISP’s now check there networks for high bandwidth usage like hawks. If high bandwidth usage is suspected the first thing they’re techs do is surf you WAN IP to see if you have a website on your dynamically assigned IP. Running a server off residential connections is often expressly forbidden in the Terms of Service and can cause your business to have its internet disconnected.

What is comes down to is making sure that as a business you get advice from someone qualified about your requirements to make sure you don’t get burned.

-RP