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There are many elements between your computer and the Internet,
which together enable the provision of broadband to you. Here,
we identify these elements and provide an intriguing insight
into the world of broadband.
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Your computer
is connected to a router which is plugged into a
microfilter (or splitter). The microfilter is a small
device that plugs directly into your phone socket and
separates the telephone’s voice traffic from the
router’s data traffic, thus enabling you to
simultaneously have a telephone conversation and browse
the Internet. The phone socket your microfilter is
plugged into may be the main socket into the building
(recommended) or an extension socket.
A copper wire
phone line connects your main phone socket to the local
telephone exchange. The quality of the copper varies and
therefore determines the maximum speeds your broadband
connection can operate at. The length of the line is
also relevant because connections over 4km long
generally prevent the provision of synchronous services;
and connections over |

6km generally results
in a deterioration of signal quality too high for any broadband
services to be provided at all.
Finally, your broadband username and password are used for
authentication when connecting to your ISP in order to grant you
access to the Internet.
The main benefits of joining Fincomp
Broadband delivery
At Fincomp, we feel
that value for money is of greatest importance, so we pay the
small additional premium for using BT’s main network in order to
provide customers with resilient, high performance and more
reliable services.
Customer service
All of our support
staff are fully trained engineers, and not simply call centre
operatives reading from computer screens. Consequently, we can
deal with all support calls quickly and competently.
One month contracts
The high quality of
the service we provide means we don’t have to look for the
reassurance of tying customers down to twelve or even eighteen
month contracts. Instead, we use just one month rolling
contracts, thereby giving customers maximum flexibility.
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