Ever been at a lunch place or mini mart when they can’t take a credit card or the register is down because they have lost their Internet? I just experienced it in three places during the last month. Two were basically dead in the water. One had only lost the ability to take credit cards – one could still take cash for purchases – but they were turning away dozens of customers per hour because they couldn’t accept credit cards. It was a mini store on a busy street (where most of those stores are located) and catered to a tourist clientele. They were losing hundreds of dollars per hour.
ISPs (Internet Service Providers) usually claim 99.9% up time for their service. But, that’s a lot of down time when you calculate it. That’s a lot of $$$ lost per month and per year when averaged.
There is a solution for every business that depends on Internet connection for Point-of-Sale, Credit Card transactions, Kiosk sales, vending credit card approval, or just for general use. 4G LTE can provide backup that really works for those short but expensive times your internet leaves you hanging. Using a specialized failover device and an LTE subscription, you may never notice that your ISP has lost its service at your location. The failover device notices, though, and instantly switches internet connection to a wireless one for you. The device is polite enough to notify you of exactly when the main service went down and when (usually within a couple of seconds) of when the backup took over; and then when normal operation is automatically restored.
For less than $50 per month that kind of backup is a great value. Click or tap here for more information.
