When configuring an online backup for a client today I came to realize just how important it is to inform our dentists about the importance of the internet speeds in their office and how it can effect your online backups.
Your average cable Internet line is going to run at around 1MB/s if you're lucky. This would equate to 1GB of patient information taking approximately 10 HOURS to upload to your online backup. The smallest patient database that I have come across has been about 40GB, and that was in an office that just started using digital imaging. With digital imaging their database will easily grow to 200GB+ very quickly.
You're best best would be to contact your Internet service provider and inquire about getting an upgrade in your upload speeds or consider getting a dedicated T1 line. T1 lines are generally guaranteed 99.9% up time so there would never be and variation in your upload/download speeds.
To check your upload and download speeds just check out SpeedTest.net.
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