Keeping your home CONNECTED

Adding more connected devices to your home?

Make sure your broadband can keep up

Is your home packed with new tech?

You might be enjoying a new Peloton Bike along with a fancy Ring doorbell system, but might have also noticed Netfl ix is buffering more than usual. And perhaps the quality of those work calls is getting worse by the day.

So, what’s going on? The problem might be that your new gadgets are competing with each other for bandwidth, and your current broadband isn’t able to support all this extra demand.

The average UK home now has nine devices connected to the internet at once. Along with phones, TVs and laptops, more people are splurging on Alexas, smart speakers, exercise equipment and security devices. But many households aren’t taking the crucial step in ensuring their broadband is fast enough to make all this new technology work properly.

MAKE YOUR HOME TRULY ‘SMART’

An essential component of smart home living is a Full Fibre broadband connection. Whereas most broadband providers promote their broadband as ‘fibre’, many will only connect your street to their fibre network, completing the connection to your home with old copper cables which severely reduces your broadband speeds. Real Full Fibre means the fibre optic cables will reach right up to your home, giving you a reliable connection.

The incredible bandwidth Full Fibre broadband is capable of means it will easily support your home’s internet needs, whether you’ve got 10, 20 or 30 devices connected at once. Good fibre optic networks are also future-proof, so no matter how fast internet speeds get in the coming years, or how much bandwidth your devices require, you won’t have to upgrade.

WHICH BROADBAND IS RIGHT FOR ME?

Before upgrading your broadband, it’s important to make sure you’re going with the right provider and have selected the right package. Be sure to choose a Full Fibre broadband that offers the speeds and reliability your home needs, especially if you have a lot of tech or work from home.

And remember, as technology continues to advance, Full Fibre broadband will become more essential than ever for a modern home. Ten years ago most people didn't have multiple streaming devices and Alexas in their homes – who knows what sort of internet-using technology we’ll have in our homes a decade from now?

There’s a reason why people are starting to call broadband ‘the fourth utility’. It really is becoming as crucial as electricity, gas and water to make your home function properly.

Visit swishfibre.com/absolutely to see how Full Fibre broadband can support the technological needs of your home