Possible business broadband switch
Short answer: You can take either Annex M or Prioritised Service or both, it's your choice. Taking Prioritised Service as well as Annex M will not increase the potential upstream speed but it will mean that the best possible speed and the highest priority is applied to both upstream and downstream traffic on the line.
Long answer: Prioritised Service will increase the upstream speed if the 20CN network (up to 8 meg downstream) is available and 21CN (up to 20 meg downstream) is not available on a customer's line. (On a 20CN line where the customer has chosen Prioritised Service, we will order a product called "Max Premium" from our supplier which has a potential upstream speed of up to 832 Kbps. On a 21CN line where the customer has chosen Prioritised Service, we will add "elevated traffic weighting" to the order we place with our supplier. Regardless of the options chosen, if the line supports 21CN and the downstream speed estimate is above 4 Mbps, we will uncap the upstream anyway, giving speeds of up to 1.3 Mbps.)
As you've run a line check and found that Annex M is available, we would provision the service on the 21CN network. If Prioritised Service is taken as well, there would not be a direct increase in the potential upstream speed. Instead, what it would mean is that if the network is congested, that line's traffic would be prioritised at the exchange level by our supplier. This would not change the traffic management that we employ on our network which prioritises business customers regardless of the options the customer chooses. There are more details about our traffic management here: http://www.plus.net/support/broadband/speed_guide/traffic_management.shtml
Prioritised service is £7.00 per month (ex VAT)
Annex M is £10 per month (ex VAT)
The contract length is just 30 days so you can try out both and then remove Prioritised Service if you don't need it.
There's a Prioritised Service FAQ here - http://www.plus.net/support/broadband/products/prioritised-service-faq.shtml
Hope that helps! Remember that if your contact decides to go ahead, give them your username to enter as they go through the signup and you'll get discounts on your bill as their referrer
Long answer: Prioritised Service will increase the upstream speed if the 20CN network (up to 8 meg downstream) is available and 21CN (up to 20 meg downstream) is not available on a customer's line. (On a 20CN line where the customer has chosen Prioritised Service, we will order a product called "Max Premium" from our supplier which has a potential upstream speed of up to 832 Kbps. On a 21CN line where the customer has chosen Prioritised Service, we will add "elevated traffic weighting" to the order we place with our supplier. Regardless of the options chosen, if the line supports 21CN and the downstream speed estimate is above 4 Mbps, we will uncap the upstream anyway, giving speeds of up to 1.3 Mbps.)
As you've run a line check and found that Annex M is available, we would provision the service on the 21CN network. If Prioritised Service is taken as well, there would not be a direct increase in the potential upstream speed. Instead, what it would mean is that if the network is congested, that line's traffic would be prioritised at the exchange level by our supplier. This would not change the traffic management that we employ on our network which prioritises business customers regardless of the options the customer chooses. There are more details about our traffic management here: http://www.plus.net/support/broadband/speed_guide/traffic_management.shtml
Prioritised service is £7.00 per month (ex VAT)
Annex M is £10 per month (ex VAT)
The contract length is just 30 days so you can try out both and then remove Prioritised Service if you don't need it.
There's a Prioritised Service FAQ here - http://www.plus.net/support/broadband/products/prioritised-service-faq.shtml
Hope that helps! Remember that if your contact decides to go ahead, give them your username to enter as they go through the signup and you'll get discounts on your bill as their referrer
