Small businesses held back by sluggish upload speeds

Many UK businesses are needlessly constrained by slow upload speeds on their broadband internet access.

Despite businesses using up to a third of their total data transfer on uploading; typical business broadband services provide just 12.5% of total bandwidth for uploading.

ISP, PlusNet, who revealed the figures today, cite smaller businesses hosting their own websites, email and files as the main strain on the capabilities of a standard ADSL broadband connection.

While the majority of businesses are now seeing the benefits of broadband for downloading, most are still using broadband services which provide upload speeds of just 256kbps, compared to up to 2Mbps of downloading on the same service.

Neil Armstrong, Head of Marketing at PlusNet said "Small and medium businesses increasingly need higher upload speeds to avoid sluggish email, websites and file transfers to their customers and suppliers."

SDSL, (Symmetric Digital Subscriber Line services), enable upload speeds to match download, so up to 2Mb is achievable both up and down the line. Historically SDSL was aimed just for big business, but from 1st November PlusNet is reducing the price of its SDSL services making it an ideal solution for businesses of any size.

For more information on PlusNet’s business broadband services, including SDSL, visit www.plus.net/business