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Business Internet

Business internet isn’t
home internet at the office

Same NBN signs out the front, very different products. Business plans come with SLAs, priority support, static IPs and the option of failover so your team doesn’t lose a day’s work when something happens. We supply through our sister brand Cipher Connect and look after the whole picture — right through to the firewall, switches and Wi-Fi behind it.

Claremont-based
Cipher Connect (tier-1 wholesale)
SLAs & static IPs available
We deal with the carrier
5.0 Google 73 reviews
Perth city skyline at night, blended into the Business Internet hero background
What we hear about business internet

Business connectivity problems Perth keeps raising

Most businesses sign up for internet using the same logic as their home plan: how fast, how cheap. Business internet has a different cost-benefit, and these are the eight scenarios where it shows.

“NBN is down and the support queue says 4 hours”
Consumer NBN comes with consumer support. Business plans include priority queues, target restoration windows, and a real person at the carrier — not a chatbot loop.
“The bill keeps creeping up. Nobody knows why”
Promotional rates that rolled off. “Loyalty” pricing that’s anything but. We audit current contracts as part of every internet review — line by line.
“Internet’s ‘slow’ but we don’t know what that means”
No baseline, no monitoring, just a vibe. Real diagnosis requires measuring — not switching plans hoping the bigger number fixes it.
“Why don’t we have a static IP?”
Consumer plans usually don’t include one. You need it for VPN, remote desktop, secure access to cameras, and many vendor systems. Available on every business plan we sell.
“One outage cost us $4,000 in lost productivity”
For a fraction of that, a 4G/5G failover would have kept everyone working. The maths almost always favours redundancy — people just haven’t run the numbers.
“We’re on FTTN. Is it still worth upgrading?”
Often yes, especially if FTTC or HFC is now available at your address. The free upgrade to fibre programs are still running in many WA suburbs.
“Customer Wi-Fi shares the same network as our servers”
Flat networks are still common. One compromised laptop in the staff room gets to everything. Segmentation isn’t hard — it’s just not configured at install.
“When something breaks, calling the telco is my job”
It shouldn’t be. Managed business plans put the carrier conversation in our court — you call us, we call them, you get back to work.
Connection options

Eight kinds of connection — we’ll match the right one to your office

Different sites suit different connection types. The right answer depends on what’s available at your address, how many people work there, what they’re doing, and whether you can afford an hour of downtime. We’ll work that out before recommending anything.

NBN Business plans
Same NBN connection, priority business support. SLAs, faster fault rectification, static IP, no shaping during peak hours. The right entry point for most offices.
NBN Enterprise Ethernet
Symmetrical speeds, hard SLAs, four-hour restoration. For offices where downtime has a price tag and the budget exists to avoid it.
Direct fibre & carrier ethernet
Off-NBN fibre direct from carriers like Telstra, Optus, Vocus. Higher capacity, contracted bandwidth, point-to-point options. For multi-site or high-traffic businesses.
Fixed wireless & 4G/5G
When fibre isn’t available or the install timeline doesn’t work, modern fixed-wireless and 5G business options deliver real working speeds in a few weeks instead of months.
Failover & redundancy
Automatic 4G/5G failover when the primary link drops. Configured so the transition is invisible to most apps. Almost always cheaper than a single outage costs.
SLAs & static IPs
Contractual response times, target restoration windows, static IP for VPN and remote access. Standard on every business plan we sell, not an upsell.
Multi-site connectivity
SD-WAN or carrier-provided multi-site links. Two or more offices on one logical network, with centralised policy and a single point of accountability.
Hardware & install
Routers, firewalls, switches, modems — supplied and installed alongside the connection itself. Same team across the connection and what runs on it.
The managed angle

When the line drops,
calling the telco isn’t your job

The single biggest reason businesses move their connection to us isn’t price. It’s that when something happens — a fault, an upgrade, a billing query, a port-in — we deal with the carrier. You call us. We call them. Your job stays your job.

  • Faults raised with the carrier on your behalf, with reference numbers
  • Updates pushed to you proactively, not on request
  • Monthly check-ins on usage, performance & spend
  • All bills audited annually for hidden creep
In action

Your connection, watched 24/7

This is what we see when we monitor a managed business connection. Live speeds, uptime, latency to the services your team uses, failover status. When something happens, we know before you do — that’s how the carrier conversation stays in our court.

Stylised view of how we monitor managed business connections. Real dashboards show live data — set to alert us before users notice problems, so we can be on the phone to the carrier while you’re still focused on your day.

Consumer-grade internet

Bought on speed and price

Fine for a family. Common shape we find at SMBs that grew quickly and never upgraded the connection.

  • Best-effort traffic class — shaped during peak hours
  • Standard residential support queue (often 1–3 days for resolution)
  • No SLA — no contractual restoration target
  • Dynamic IP, unsuitable for VPN, vendor systems, remote desktop
  • No failover, no monitoring, no proactive alerts
Business-grade internet

Bought on availability and accountability

The same physical line, treated differently by the carrier — and managed differently by us.

  • Priority traffic class — no congestion shaping
  • Business support queue with target response & restoration windows
  • Contractual SLA with credit if missed
  • Static IP included — VPN, remote access, CCTV all work properly
  • 4G/5G failover available, monitored, automatic
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How we manage connections

Plan it before. Manage it during. Learn from it after.

Connections aren’t set-and-forget. They’re a service we run, monitor and review — not a box we install and abandon. Four ongoing phases, repeated every year for every business connection we manage.

The principle
Treat the connection as a service, not a purchase
Otherwise you’ll wake up one Tuesday and realise it’s been seven years.
01
Discovery
Site audit, address-level options, current contracts, current pain points, baseline measurements. Before we recommend anything.
02
Design & install
Right-sized plan, the right hardware, network segmentation, failover where it makes sense. Configured properly the first time.
03
Run & respond
Ongoing monitoring with alerts. When something happens, the carrier conversation is in our court. You stay focused on your business.
04
Review
Annual review of plan, usage, costs and new options at your address. We’ll renegotiate or change providers if the data says we should.
Book an internet review

Tell us about
your current setup

A 30-minute review of your current connection, contracts and pain points. We’ll bring address-level data on what’s available now and what it would cost — including options you may not have been offered.

  • Address-level options summary (what’s actually available)
  • Current-bill audit (find redundancies)
  • Failover cost-benefit assessment
Prefer to call? (08) 6555 6500 or email
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About your connection

We’ll respond within one business day. No hard sell. Privacy policy.

Why Res-Q & Cipher Connect for business internet

The connection,
and everything
that runs on it

Most ISPs sell you a line and walk away. Cipher Connect is Res-Q’s telco arm — we sell you the line and stay with it. Same team across the connection, the firewall, the switches, the Wi-Fi and what your team actually does with all of it. One accountable provider when something goes wrong.

17
Years installing networks
5.0
73 Google reviews
1
Bill, team, support number
About Res-Q IT →
Direct wholesale through Cipher Connect
No third-party retailer between you and the network. Our sister brand gives us direct carrier relationships for NBN, fibre, mobile and fixed wireless.
We deal with the carrier — not you
Faults, escalations, billing queries, port-ins: all go through us. You get the resolution, not the queue. The biggest reason businesses move to a managed connection.
Network designed with security in mind
Segmentation, guest Wi-Fi isolation, firewall policy and remote-access design happen at install — not as separate purchases after the breach.
Local install, local team
Claremont-based since 2009. The people who install your connection are the people who answer the phone — not an outsourced queue with no context.