40 minutes a day to slow internet connection. This equates to 21 wasted days per year (almost the average rate of annual leave in the UK).\u00a0Poor internet connection isn\u2019t just an irritating part of people\u2019s days. It\u2019s also draining businesses of their money, and earnest employees of their time. But it\u2019s not only employee frustration and wasted time that\u2019s a pain for companies. \u2018Bad connections\u2019 are also a killer for business budgets, and a company\u2019s wider health.<\/p>\n
Only in 2017, it was believed that poor internet services cost the UK economy a whopping \u00a37 billion pounds a year, and at the beginning of 2019, this figure is set to grow larger if businesses don\u2019t start trying to make changes.\u00a0But it\u2019s not only annoyed and unmotivated employees, and financial losses that poor internet services enact over businesses, it can also drive down customer engagement with a business.
\nPoor or slow internet services, including a slowly loading company website, will turn customers off from a business and will drive up bounce rates (customers only getting to the homepage of a site and quickly leaving).<\/p>\n
Slow business broadband has been cited as one of the biggest distractions for employees. Employees may be more likely to take longer breaks, or more frequent breaks, if they believe that their connection isn\u2019t meeting their needs and helping them perform their duties.<\/p>\n
Slow business broadband takes tasks that should be quick and simple to complete and turns them into complex, frustrating, and long-winded activities. Sending large files to a client? Sounds simple, but with slow business broadband this can be a time consuming and arduous task.<\/p>\n
So, what\u2019s a business owner to do when faced with all these disruptions?<\/p>\n
1. Reboot your modem and router<\/strong> 2. Monitor your real-time network<\/strong> 3. Virus and malware scans<\/strong> 4. Clear your browser cache<\/strong> 5. Check your internet speed<\/strong> If you discover that you\u2019re getting a slower speed than you were promised by your service provider, get in touch with them. At our High Street Centre, we offer all our tenants up to 100mbps leased broadband connection. you have uninterrupted service and both download and upload speeds guaranteed with less than 0.1% downtime. Get in touch with us today and find your perfect office space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 40 minutes a day to slow internet connection. This equates to 21 wasted days per year (almost the average rate of annual leave in the UK).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12312400,"featured_media":25207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[158,161,160,162,159],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outsourcedacc.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25205"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outsourcedacc.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outsourcedacc.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outsourcedacc.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12312400"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outsourcedacc.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outsourcedacc.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outsourcedacc.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outsourcedacc.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outsourcedacc.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outsourcedacc.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nInstead of panicking about your internet issues, start with the basics by turning off your router and turning it on again. This includes unplugging the device and waiting for two minutes, and plugging it back in. After a few minutes, everything should be back up and running again, and at a greater speed.<\/p>\n
\nBy looking at your network connections in real time, you can spot the identify active devices, applications and users that might be slowing down your internet speed. This is a great troubleshooting option, as there could be an app you\u2019re using that is not crucial to the business, such as media streaming on Netflix, which could be slowing your internet down. Once you\u2019ve identified what could be slowing you down, your IT manager can set a cap on the amount of bandwidth allocated to a specific application or user, which will then reduce its impact on the rest of the business.<\/p>\n
\nEnsure you\u2019re running virus and malware scans regularly. This includes implementing high-quality programmes that scan your computer for harmful software.As you probably already know, viruses can slow down your internet speed a lot, so do your due diligence, remain virus free and speed up your internet speed!It\u2019s preferable to run these scans outside of office hours, ensuring you allow your employees to get on with their daily work tasks without intrusion.<\/p>\n
\nYour browser cache is where files are stored to help load web pages, especially those you use most often. However, when the cache becomes too full it may slow your internet connection down. Ensure you clear your browser at least once or twice a year.<\/p>\n
\nIt\u2019s important that you run all the preliminary checks above, and once you\u2019ve done that, turn to your internet speed.These online tests let you see what internet speeds you\u2019re achieving. You can do several speed tests throughout the day in case your speeds are varying at different times.<\/p>\n