What are the benefits to having Slingshot's Ultra-Fibre?
Ultra-Fibre provides the absolute best in consistency of speeds to your home. This means that everybody in the house can be online on various devices, and you won't experience the slow-down that you're used to on ADSL connections! As an added benefit, streaming sites like YouTube will have a lot less (sometimes even none) of the painful "buffering" experience.
It's the way of the future! New houses are being built with fibre in mind - this means that there are already ducts in place from the house to the street, and the in-home wiring is ready for fibre.
The Internet is becoming bigger, and so are websites. At the moment, you can stream videos and television shows through services like YouTube, QuickFlix, and iTunes. On an ADSL connection, these services may often stop to buffer, and this will be minimised on fibre.
If you work from home, a fibre connection will allow you to access files from the cloud just as quickly as if you were in the office.
More and more, people are uploading content to the Internet. You could be uploading lots of images to Facebook or Flickr, or large files to services like Dropbox, or Box. Ultra-Fibre has an upload speed of up to 20 Mbps which is a big step up from the 1-2 Mbps you can achieve on a copper connection!
Reliability: The Ultra-Fibre network is built for the Internet. On a fibre network you are much less likely to get the types of issues on ADSL/ADSL2+ like slow speeds, dropouts, and weather related faults.
To learn more about the difference between ADSL, VDSL and Fibre check out our video below so you know you're picking the best service available for you and not ending up Broadbangry!
