RE: Re: ISP & Router Needed

["Hawes,Timothy Edward \(GEG\)" <haweste@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for all the comments guys.
While I do intend to work from home some of the time, I also expect to
do a fair amount of work in Client offices. Either way however, I don't
need much more than surfing & email access from my ISP (I'm in
engineering, not IT). I will have a need for hosting, but will more than
likely outsource this, rather than try to do it from home as it's not my
speciality.

I'll take a look at all of your other ISP suggestions and also try to
get some more info on claiming a "home" service back as a
business
expense. I should also read the ISP Ts & Cs.

Thanks,

Tim.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Raymond Kelly
>
> If you are using your broadband for business purposes
> according to the contracts with the ISP you have to use a
> 'business' level subscription. Also if you are claiming it
> back as a genuine business expense then you should use a
> business version. If you use a home version it may get
> challenged if you get a visit from HMRC.
>
> On 12/01/06, patrick_o_matic <patrick@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > --- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, Raymond Kelly <ray@r...> wrote:
> > >
> > > If your working from home as a 'business' then you should
have a
> > > business level service. That's basically the main
> difference in price.
> >
> >
> > Correct me if I am wrong, but in practice "business level
service"
> > just translates into lower contention ratios. Given that peak
times
> > for contention are outside normal office hours, when kids
> and parents
> > are at home, opting for a business service may not make sense?
> >
> > AFAIK, no ADSL provider currently offers any guaranteed levels of
> > service or response times to fix outages.
> >
> > Patrick