Why should photographers be with


Broadband?


If you do a lot of uploading, such as taking and uploading lots of digital photos, you are likely to find a slow upload speed frustrating. Indeed, a recent Ofcom report said that “while the market tends to focus on download speeds, as these are most important for most consumer applications, upload speeds matter to those looking to share large files, use real- time video communications and for some online games.” (Ofcom: UK Broadband Speeds, May 2010) The same report stated that “average actual upload speeds were around 0.4 to 0.6Mbit/s for all of the ‘up to’ 8 and 10Mbit/s ISP packages, with the exception of BE’s ‘up to’ 8Mbit/s service, which had an average upload speed of nearly 1Mbit/s, higher than those of comparable DSL packages”. See the figure below:


BE regularly comes on top of broadband tables for upload speeds, such as the monthly speed league tables from comparison site broadband.co.uk. These industry-leading upload speeds are made possible thanks to Annex M technology. Annex M is an upload speed boost that is perfect for photo professionals and enthusiasts who require greater upload speeds for services such as online photo sharing and file storage. Put simply Annex M technology allows users to get up to 2.5meg upload by sacrificing a small amount of your download speed, compared to the Annex A which allows up to 1.3meg upload. Annex M is only available to networks that operate on ADSL2+, which is the network that BE is built on and is available on the BE Pro product. So if you are into photography, you need to be into your upload speeds and that means being with BE Broadband.


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