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Sales Associates Program - The Details


We are looking for professional broadband consultants and Value Added Resellers (VARs) to follow up on the stream of leads being generated by our Referral Affiliates and Webmasters. Fill out an application to become a Sales Associate or what we call "Closer" - and have qualified leads sent to you every day! No more cold calls. No more wasting your money on marketing. We'll keep new prospects coming your way so that you can focus on what you do best - sales!
What You Do:

You login to your password protected Back Office each day
You call all of the leads assigned to you
You note their status in our tracking system
You sign the prospect up for service, assist them with the appropriate paperwork, and follow up with the carrier to ensure proper and timely provisioning
You earn 5% to 20% on the life of the account (rate depends on which plan your customer signs up for and if you generate the lead or not)
You serve as the main point of contact for that customer for the life of their account
You cash your check!
Take a Virtual Tour of the Agent Site for Closers!

What We Do:

We generate leads for you through our massive affiliate network
We provide your customers with real-time telecom price quotes
We assign a more leads to our best "closers" as measured by RPL (Revenue Per Lead)
We maintain the automated system, including rates, site updates, reporting, and commission updates
We provide training on all of the products you are interested in selling
We provide support when you have questions
We pay you a 5% to 20% residual on the life of the account (rate depends on which plan your customer signs up for) each and every month your customer pays their bill







Selected Telecom Broker Network Services

T-1 Internet Connections:
An Internet T1 (or T-1) T1 is a symmetrical local access connection to an Internet port that allows for downloads and uploads of up to 1.5 Mega Bits Per Second (Mbps) which is 30 times as fast as a 56 Kilo Bits Per Second (Kbps) dial-up connection over a standard Plain Old Telephone Service (POTS) phone line. An Internet T1 connection can support up to hundreds of desktop computers depending upon the applications and bandwidth beding utilized.





DIRECTV HD DVR Features:
As one of the leaders in providing HD channels to your television, DIRECTV now has a full line of HD receivers. These range from the standard HD receivers to the DIRECTV Plus HD DVR.

The best series of HD receivers that DIRECTV carries is the DIRECTV Plus HD DVR. This receiver gives you access to thousands of movies from the comfort of your own couch. These movies are all in HD as well. This means that you will never have to go the movies.

The DIRECTV Plus HD DVR also can be viewed in HD or SD. So, if you don’t have a HD television yet but you are planning on getting one, you can still order this receiver. HD for this receiver is in MPEG-2 and 4.

With the DIRECTV Plus HD DVR you can record up to 200 hours of SD (standard definition) shows and 50 hours of HD shows. If you are gone but you still want to watch your favorite programs, you can watch them on your own time. You can set up your receiver to record all of the episodes of your favorite show as well.

Another feature of the DIRECTV Plus HD DVR is that ability to record two shows at once while watching another recording. This is an option that Dish Network does not have. This enables you to fast forward through commercials when you watch your shows.

The Series Link Feature of the DIRECTV Plus HD DVR is very useful. This allows you to record an entire season of shows without finding each one. When a show is re-scheduled, the receiver changes with it automatically.

With the DIRECTV Plus HD DVR you can pause and rewind live HD TV for 90 minutes. If you are in the middle of your favorite show and you have to run an errand, you can pause it and come back right to where you left off. Or, if you forget to pause your TV, you can rewind and see what you missed.










VoIP:
Voice over IP is a digital phone service that allow users to make calls across the public switched telephone network (PSTN) via the Internet. By using a high speed Internet connection and a VoIP phone or analog telephone adapter (ATA), a user receives the same type of phone service as plain old telephone service (POTS) plus many additional features. For example, find me / follow me allow a user to enter all of the phone numbers the user wants to ring when the user's VoIP phone number is called. If you are at home, at the office, or on your mobile phone, all of your phones can be rung in succession or at the same time using VoIP!







ADT Home Security Alarm System Services:
ADT is the largest single provider of electronic security services to more than six million commercial, government and residential customers throughout North America. ADT's total security solutions include intrusion detection, fire detection, video surveillance, access control, critical condition monitoring, health and elder care monitoring, electronic article surveillance, radio frequency identification and integrated systems.

ADT was founded 131 years ago and manages security systems for 90 percent of the Fortune 500 companies., half of the country's top 50 national and regional bank holding companies, 72 of the nation's mid and large-size airports, 19 of the top 30 busiest airports in the United States, and all federal courthouses nationwide.

Of the top 100 largest retailers in the world, 45 are located in the United States. More than 80 percent of those retailers use some form of ADT security technology in some or all of their locations.

ADT installs more than 80 security systems each hour, or more than one a minute and has more than 6,000 installers and service technicians nationwide.

ADT helps protect families, businesses and communities. In 2004, ADT responded to more than 50,000 crimes in progress via its interfaces with approximately 38,000 law enforcement, medical and fire agencies across the country.

ADT has five Customer Monitoring Centers (CMC) strategically located throughout the United States, linked to create one virtual nationwide monitoring platform. The CMCs act on more than 29 million alarm signals each year (93,000+ alarms daily, 200,000+ total calls daily (inbound/outbound), 8,000+ customer contacts an hour 24/7), handle more than 19 million customer calls per year, and handle 3.3 customer transactions every second. With the virtual capability of ADT's CMCs, if one monitoring center receives excessive alarm signal traffic or, in a worst-case scenario, becomes nonoperational, all alarm signals can be rerouted to another of ADT's five centers.





Telecom Brokerage and Consultant Services:
Multi-Site National and Global Network Solutions: As your organization grows, so does the importance of telecommunications integration and coordination. For example, we can design a Virtual Private Network (VPN) or Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) Network that can connect all of your locations to enable sensitive data to flow back and forth at a high speed without the risk of interception. Call us at (888) 255-5859.




MPLS:
Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) is a data communication standard that creates separate data paths for specific sequences of packets. Each packet is identified by a label that is encapsulated into each packet. This eliminates the need for Internet Protocol (IP) routers to look up the IP address of the next router in the network in order to forward the packet and as a result, speeds up the network.

MPLS works across various data protocols such as the Internet Protocol (IP), Asynchronous Transport Mode (ATM), and frame relay. MPLS forwards most packets at layer 2 (switching) instead of at layer 3 (routing) level.

MPLS makes it easier to manage network for quality of service (QoS) because packets can be prioritized by business importance. For example, Voice over IP (VoIP) can be prioritized over email and web browsing packets.




Ethernet Internet:
Ethernet is the most widely-used data network protocol today. Standardized as IEEE 802.3, the Ethernet protocol is used for local area networks (LANs) at the Layer 1 (Physical Layer) and Layer 2 (Data Link Layer) of the OSI networking model. Ethernet can be used to connect twisted copper pair networks and to connect fiber optic cable networks. It also provides a great local access medum to connect LANs to the Internet. Ethernet access to the Internet is quickly becoming the access method of choice were it is available.




Digital Subscriber Line Service (DSL):
Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) connects end users (subscribers) to the Internet via a plain old telephone service (POTS) line that uses an existing copper pair but has been sped up by a Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer (DSLAM) located at the service provider centeral office (CO) to form a continuous digital high-speed data connection from the customer premise to the Internet.

Asymetric DSL (ADSL) allows more bandwidth to move data toward the end user (multimedia and text) than from the end user (mostly keystrokes and mouse behavior) to the Internet. The downstream receiving rate from the Internet usually varies from 1.5 to 9Mbps while the upstream sending rate usually varies from 16 to 640 Kbps. The main limitation on bandwidth speeds available is the distance from the customer premise to the local telephone company central office.




Wireless Internet Service:
Satellite Wireless Internet is a new way to access the Internet at high speeds from anywhere in the United States. Satellite Wireless Internet is delivered via satellites that orbit the Earth while transmitting and receiving high frequency radio internet data to a small dish located at the customer premise. This two-way satellite radio system is reliable, easy to set up and is mobile. You can move the subscriber satellite dish and re-connect with ease.

HughesNet offers high-speed Satellite Wireless Internet service satellite internet (sometimes incorrectly spelled satelite internet) to subscribers who are in remote locations or unique locations where DSL or other types of Internet access is unavailable. All you need to connect to HughesNet is an unobstructed view of the southern sky. Please click on the banner below for more information.




Business, Personal, and Reseller Web Hosting:
The Telecom Broker Network is proud to offer HostGator Web Hosting! HostGator is ranked in the top ten of the world's largest web hosting companies and has more than a million hosted domains and over 160 employees. With 24x7 customer support that is unrivaled in the industry, HostGator and is a great choice for most web hosting requirements from personal web pages all the way up to large fortune 100 corporate web sites.

All of HostGator's web hosting plans comes with a 45 day money back guarantee and a 99.9% uptime guarantee! If you are not happy with the support tech support provided by a customer service representative, the owner, Brent will provide you tech support personally. Just ask that your trouble ticket be assigned to Brent (the owner of HostGator) and he will personally take the time to give you the VIP attention that you deserve. Try to find that offer from another web hosting company!

How does reseller hosting work? You have a reseller hosting account control panel called Web Host Manager (WHM). WHM is where you go to create your customer accounts. After filling in their account information you click "create." This will instantly set your web hosting customer up with your customer's own control panel called a cPanel. This is where your customer will go to administer their website. Once your customer is logged into cPanel, your customer can create subdomains, email addresses, change passwords, and do much more without requiring any help from you or us.

Get a Dedicated Server: When you order a dedicated server, you get HostGator's highest level of security, speed, and up-time - higher than a shared hosting solution. You also get 24 x 7 server management and a free cPanel license. Your server will be ready for you to use within 24 hours of ordering service. With exclusive use and complete control over management of the server, you no longer have to worry about sharing server resources with other customers.







Telecommunications Information on the Wold Wide Web:
Have you been frustrated trying to find telecommunications information on the Internet? Are descriptions of services unclear and so carrier specific that you do not trust the content? Telecom Links understands that there is a shortage of clearly-written information about the myriad of telecom services available today. Consequently, the Telecom Links mission is to be the most comprehensive source of telecommunications information on the World Wide Web.

If you are looking for high-quality, up-to-date information in a simple, easy-to-use format, click on the banner below and you will be taken to the Telecom Links web site where you are always just a mouse click away from information about the telecommunication services you are looking for.




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 DSL Speed Tests

Written by: Patrick Oborn - Jan 8, 2009


Ever wonder how fast your connection is? Are you really getting the 1.5Mbps that was promised to you? Me neither! The fact is, DSL is highly over subscribed. Oversubscription means that many people are pulling from the same resource. This results in slowdowns and it means you and I aren't getting the speed we signed up for. The best way to confirm this is through DSL Speed Test.

A DSL Speed Test is a great way to find out what kind of speed you're really getting. Is your connection really slow or is it just the fast that you're working with an old, slow, or over tasked computer? Simply find the DSL Speed Test by performing a search on Google and you'll quickly be on your way to finding out what you're really getting. You'll have to shut down your programs that are accessing the net and then perform the test which takes 30 seconds or so. It's very important to shut down programs accessing the net because these will impair the test and will cause your connection to appear slower than it actually is since some of it is being used.

When you find your speed is not what you signed up for you may want to try a few "tweaks". DSL Reports has a free downloads of DSL Tweaks that will allow you to modify your settings and some of your software to be faster on the net. What the DSL Speed Test will likely tell you, however is that you're not getting the speed you signed up for and unfortunately there's not much you can do about it. You can certainly call your provider and let them know you're not pleased but the reduction in speed can be caused by your distance from the CO or bad wiring in the area.