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Dedicated vs Shared Bandwidth: What You Really Get

Dedicated bandwidth is a floor; shared bandwidth is a ceiling. On a dedicated port the committed rate is guaranteed and symmetric. On a shared service the headline figure is the best case, the upstream is a fraction of it, and the capacity is contended with other subscribers.

The difference shows up first in whatever your operation sends rather than receives: video calls, cloud backup, remote desktop, and anything reached from outside.

Brazil connectivity delivered by a neutral multicarrier operator. We map every route available at your address and come back with price, lead time and SLA.

The difference in one line

Dedicated bandwidth is yours. Shared bandwidth is a maximum you might reach when the neighbours are not using theirs. Everything else follows from that.

What "up to" is doing in the sentence

Shared services are sold as "up to X". The number is a ceiling under ideal conditions, not a floor you can plan against. Contention — how many customers share the same segment — is rarely published, and it is the single number that determines what you actually get at 15:00 on a Tuesday.

Where the practical differences show

When shared is the right answer

A small office where an outage is an inconvenience, a guest network kept separate from the business traffic, or a temporary site. Being honest about this is cheaper than overbuying — but the moment payments, a fiscal document service or remote access depend on the link, the calculation changes and it is not close.

The comparison people get wrong

Comparing a 500 Mbps shared plan against a 100 Mbps dedicated circuit on price alone. They are different products: one is a ceiling shared with strangers, the other is a floor with a contract behind it. The right comparison is against what an hour of downtime costs your operation.

Send us the addresses. We are a neutral multicarrier operator: we map every route that can genuinely deliver at each one and come back with price, lead time and SLA — normally within two business hours. No CNPJ required to start.

Related: dedicated internet access · what a usable SLA contains

Buying from Europe? Portugal ↔ Brazil

Dedicated IPLC and Ethernet private line between Portugal and Brazil, with presence in Lisbon, Madrid, Milan and Frankfurt through the operators in our group and partner networks. Contractual SLA, 24/7 NOC, 100 Mbps to 10 Gbps+. We accept payment in USD and EUR.

Group network: AS14840 (5–10 Tbps, 60 Hudson and Equinix Miami) and AS269311 (100 Gbps at IX.br Rio, at the Globenet cable landing station). Both on PeeringDB.

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