Category Archives: News

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Metro Ethernet Speeds and Uses

Metro Ethernet is quickly becoming one of the more popular bandwidth services for businesses, especially those who need a large amount of bandwidth in mission-critical situation (that is, their business relies on their Internet access). Metro Ethernet helps provide an upgrade path from single or bonded T1 services at a great price level that even a few years ago wasn’t Continue Reading...
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Telecommuting With the Proper Internet and Voice Tools

This week, one of the biggest pieces of news (if not *the* biggest) was Yahoo’s announcement to their workforce that as of later this year, they could no longer telecommute. With high speed Internet access in nearly every residence, companies have become quite used to, if not encouraging of, workers telecommuting on an occasional or full time basis. Based on Continue Reading...
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Advantages of Wireless Internet Access in Fall River

Customers local to our main office in Fall River, Massachusetts are very familiar with our two wireless Internet offerings. For residential and small business users, we offer MegaBroadband service which is a DSL equivalent service. And for businesses that rely on the Internet heavily, we offer a commercial class service called MegaNet Business Wireless. Both services are available throughout the Continue Reading...
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When Your DSL’s Down, And It Don’t Look Good, Who Ya Gonna Call?

First of all, apologies to Ray Parker, Jr.! However, the sentiment behind our homage to his lyrics is true – if your Internet DSL or T1 connection is down, or your email doesn’t seem to be working properly, who are you going to call? Our clients know that they can call our Support department, email us with questions, visit our Continue Reading...
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Why Aren’t Small and Medium Businesses Using Data Backup Services?

Losing data is an inevitable situation when your business uses computers nearly every day, all day long. Data backup services are the easiest way to help protect a company’s digital property when used on an ongoing basis. Backing up daily to a cloud data backup service, or to a local backup system, is critical to business continuity. Yet, with so Continue Reading...
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Update On Outages After This Weekend’s Blizzard

Now that everyone’s shoveled out and resuming their normal routines, many companies are headed back to the office to discover their Internet connections may be down. Our staff has been working diligently since Friday afternoon to stay on top of weather-related issues, and at this point it appears that the majority of problems customers are experiencing are due to either Continue Reading...
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Should Your Business Have A Backup Internet Connection?

With Superstorm Nemo, or Blizzardcane Nemo, or Winter Storm Nemo… whatever they’re calling this walloping the NorthEast’s about to get, the issue of business continuity has come up with a few of our clients. In particular, the issue of backup connections has popped up a few times, as it did when the East Coast was hit by Hurricane Sandy – should Continue Reading...
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VoIP and Small to Medium Business Cost Savings

It’s certainly no secret that businesses are always looking for reliable phone services that can reliably fit into their budget. As VoIP and digital voice become more widely adopted (a recent study has shown that VoIP usage is growing by 15% per year), businesses are seeing the benefits of both having more features and options than ever before, in addition Continue Reading...
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Selecting the Best Email Solution for Your Business

Over the past decade, email service has become of the primary (if not THE primary) communications tool for so many business people. The days of simply pulling email off of your provider’s server are long gone – with tablets, smartphones, and instant access to email and contacts from anywhere, there are a number of different email services and platforms to Continue Reading...
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Cloud services are driving larger bandwidth connections

A continuing trend we’ve seen throughout the years is the upward growth of bandwidth connections required by our customers. As bandwidth connections provide faster speeds, in turn services become more bandwidth intensive, so in essence they almost drive each other. Where a few years ago a T1 or DSL line would be more than enough, now bonded services and fiber-based Continue Reading...