"From 'Is the Internet Down Again?' to 'We Forgot to Even Check
Bad broadband announces itself constantly: the spinning wheel, the timed-out exam, the apology email to parents when registration took 40 minutes. Good broadband? You forget it exists - because it just works. That's what ekte designs: the invisible infrastructure that lets you focus on teaching, not troubleshooting.
The right connection, every time —chosen for your school’s budget, location, and future needs.
As a direct Nasstar and BT Wholesale partner, ekte can provide your school with high-speed, dedicated full Fibre connections—guaranteeing the speeds, reliability, and quality demanded by the DfE’s latest guidelines. But we don’t stop there: by working with several alternative network (“Alt Net”) providers, such as ITS and Gigaclear, we’re able to compare and select from all the best circuits available in your area, ensuring you never overpay and always benefit from the very latest technology.
We don’t believe in “one size fits all” internet. Whether you’re a MAT, a large secondary or a single-site primary, we design your broadband with resilience in mind—including robust back-up connections and the option for active-active line configuration, so you get maximum speed as well as peace of mind. This means no single fault or outage puts your lessons, safeguarding, or office operations at risk—the internet just keeps working, with instant failover if needed.
Every ekte broadband solution is built for safeguarding and online safety too, with firewalls, content filtering, and monitoring designed for full KCSiE and DfE digital compliance. Our team handles all the setup, ongoing support, and jargon-busting explanations, making sure staff and students alike enjoy uninterrupted learning and complete protection, all at a price your budget can afford.
Full Fibre Broadband Connection
Ekte, a BT partner, provides dedicated, high-speed, secure broadband for schools. Our reliable, diverse-routed connections exceed DfE requirements to keep you always online.
Back Up Broadband connection
Ekte provides schools with dual, diverse-routed connections. The "active-active" setup doubles your bandwidth and resilience, ensuring you stay online and your investment works harder.
Safeguarding and KCISE
Ekte's broadband helps meet KCSiE safeguarding duties with built-in firewalls and filtering. It logs, blocks, and reports inappropriate content, supporting designated safeguarding leads.
ekte service was excellent, they told us when the engineer would turn up to do the survey and then kept us informed as the new line was delivered. Once in, ekte ensured that the switch over from our old connection to the new faster more secure one, was seamless - we are very happy
Thanks to ekte being a BT partner they were able to offer us a diverse routed option for our main and back up line and then install the solution in an active/active state so that we are using our back-up line and not just paying for an asset that is sitting doing nothing - we coud not be happier
Ready for broadband that never lets your school down?
Talk to ekte for a no-obligation comparison and see how our BT and Alt Net solutions deliver safer, faster, better value connectivity—guaranteed.
FAQs
Discover answers to your pressing questions about our Broadband Services
The DfE recommends at least 1Mbps per pupil for primary schools and 2Mbps per pupil for secondary. So a 300-pupil primary needs 300Mbps minimum, ideally 500Mbps+ to handle video calls, cloud apps, and simultaneous device use without grinding to a halt. But raw speed isn't everything—reliability, latency, and having backup connectivity matter more than headline numbers. ekte sizes connections for real-world school use, not best-case marketing brochures.
Only if you want teaching to continue when the primary line fails. Broadband outages happen—roadworks, accidental cable cuts, provider issues—and without backup, your cloud MIS, Google Classroom, remote learning, and card payments all stop. The DfE mandates backup connections by 2030 because schools are digitally dependent now. ekte installs diverse-routed backup (different cable paths, ideally different providers) so one failure doesn't take you offline.
Full fibre (FTTP - Fibre to the Premises) runs glass cables all the way to your building, offering symmetrical speeds (same upload as download), lower latency, and better reliability than older copper-based connections (FTTC or ADSL). For schools using cloud services, video conferencing, and uploading large files, full fibre is transformative. ekte is a BT, Nasstar and ITS partner delivering full fibre installations with proper SLAs, diverse routing, and built-in support—not just "fastest available" broadband from a price comparison site.
Absolutely—and the DfE requires it. Your connection should route through filtering systems (iboss, Netsweeper, Lightspeed, Smoothwall, or similar) that block inappropriate content, log access attempts, and alert designated safeguarding leads to concerning behaviour. Filtering happens before traffic reaches devices, so it works on school-owned and BYOD devices alike. ekte integrates filtering with your broadband setup, ensuring KCSiE compliance from day one.
Not if it's set up properly. ekte uses open standards and portable numbers/IPs so switching providers doesn't mean starting from scratch. We review contracts annually, benchmark pricing, and manage migrations if better deals or service emerge. Schools shouldn't be held hostage by incumbent providers just because "it's complicated to change."