Thinking About Cloud Computing? What questions should you be asking and why. – Part 9

Grazed from MMEConsulting. Author: Steve McEvoy.

How fast does your Internet connection need to be?

If you have a terrible Internet connection you can stop reading now and give up on the Cloud (until your Internet options improve). Any Cloud Practice Management App (PM App) needs a reliable Internet connection with decent speed. This is the most important part of your Cloud adventure. You are about to make your Internet Connection business critical. Get this part wrong and you are going to suffer immensely. For that reason I’ve spent a fair bit of time below getting into the details (sorry about the length but I think it will be worth your time).

Reliability of your Internet connection is paramount. If the Internet goes out for a few minutes each day (a.k.a. Flakey) this will drive you insane and dramatically impact your Practice. In my experience Practices that move to the Cloud often discover that their Internet connection has been Flakey without really knowing it…

A traditional office uses its Internet connection in a spotty fashion – a download here, an upload there, but most of time they don’t do anything that would notice a short, random momentary interruption of 10 second to even a minute or two. Even if you do notice it, people typically blow it off and just try again. If the connection is Flakey, in most cases a complaint to the ISP can usually resolve the issue once it’s spotted…

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