Homenet

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Homenet provides a low cost, quick to deploy, Ethernet based satellite internet connection for home users. File transfer speeds are up to 64 times faster than dial-up, and up to 7 times faster than many ordinary ADSL connections.

Tariam Homenet is currently available anywhere in Europe, including Ireland

Tariam Homenet is NOT yet available in Africa or the Middle East although will be in future (2010)

View a comparison between Tariam Homenet and dial-up

Homenet is designed for consumers, but its also suitable for home offices and small businesses* with up to 3 users and is ideal for properties outside the fixed line broadband footprint or that have poor or low speed broadband over wires. Homenet is powered by TooWay, a satellite broadband solution designed from the outset for the home. It’s been extremely successful in North America with over 325,000 subscribers on the hardware.

Homenet supports

• Email and browsing
• Secure online sites, ecommerce and online banking
• Remote site hook up
• FTP
• Distance Education

You can share the service between several computers using a wireless or standard router or switch, and you don’t need the ongoing expense of a phone line.

Homenet features

• Inexpensive hardware and airtime from £39.99 inc VAT a month
• A straightforward 3 month contract - no long term commitment
• Our “Refer-a-friend” scheme which can deliver your Homenet airtime for FREE
• Download speeds up to 3.6 Mbps (3584 kbps), upload up to 384 kbps
• Always on, plug and play connectivity
• Rapid and cheap installation
• Available anywhere in Europe including Ireland, regardless of distance from exchange

Homenet is revolutionary in the fact that it offers a full 3.6 Mb download and 384 kb upload for all the account options.

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The network and the equipment are extremely reliable and robust. As with all Tariam satellite platforms, the network is monitored and managed from our Operations Centre 24/7, 365 days a year, and we have online access across the satellite to each terminal for providing technical support and troubleshooting.

The customer premises equipment is compact and offers plug and play connectivity.

The satellite modem is self contained with all the VSAT specific applications, including both TCP PEP (Performance Enhancing Proxies) and pre-fetching for super fast browsing.

* Customers who require additional broadband functionality like IPSec VPN connections (used by customers accessing their company or corporate networks over the internet) or to send very large files should consider our iaccess and iconnect solutions which are suitable for this kind of work).