T1nART
join:2009-04-26
Canada
| HighSpeed in rural areas...
Hey,
So I've been on Acanac's DSL for about half a year now, and it's going great. With the exception of a few minor hick-ups when I first signed up, everything else since then is smooth sailing.
So, I wanted to refer my sister to the service. She just recently moved out to a rural area in Milton/Halton Hills. Unlucky for her though, as she found out both from Rogers and Bell that they do not have high speed connections going out to her farm. It's quite unfortunate as she would love to have Acanac's service.
Turns out that the two major providers don't even have lines going out there. Except bell has a telephone line going to her place that can only support dial-up service.
I've also read up somewhere that the infrastructure is being upgraded and expanding to those rural areas, but either the project is really slow or has halted to a stop, and even if it is built, it's not going to be done until 2010/2011.
Does anyone know why it is taking them so slow to upgrade their lines or even if it's still on-going.
Fortunately, however, bell does offer portable internet, and I believe rogers would also offer the same thing in rural areas. However, this would limit their internet usage to just only one computer at a time.
Is there anyway they could network their portable internet with their router to provide connections to all the computers in the house?
Further, even if they have high speed portable internet, the service would still cost them an arm and a leg each month provided they don't go over the bandwidth limit or making the service capable of supporting multiple computers.
This unfortunate circumstance of not being able to choose the type of high speed service they will get as well as potentially being charged up the nose for what's limited to them makes my blood boil.
Does anyone have any light to shed on this matter and can they expect to see down the tunnel that someday in the future their options for providers as well as capability in their area will improve?
Inquiring what's out there... |
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Fergless
join:2008-04-19
Toronto, ON
 ·Acanac
| Is there anyway they could network their portable internet with their router to provide connections to all the computers in the house?
There's some mention of it using a Wireless Modem/Powerline Adapters.
»your.rogers.com/store/cable/Inte···faqs.asp |
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mjdab
@bell.ca
| reply to T1nART
I have Roger's portable internet. Works best if you are close to a tower and have your modem facing it. I have to have mine outside in order to achieve a descent signal. Their download speed is suppose to be up to 1.5 or 2.0 mbps depending where you read it. I never get anything more than 1.5 mbps on non peak times.Download speeds are usually much slower though and crawls at peak useage time. Better than dial-up for sure.
Just stick the ethernet cable from modem to router and power up and you can connect anything with built-in wifi like ipod touch or computer. No limit to no. of computers you can connect, it is just that the more that are on using the internet the potential of slowing downloads increases if everyone is downloading. 30G is the monthly limit and that is hard to even come close to during the month frankly. Even though you have to purchase Rogers modem for 99$ i have no contract and can cancel anytime. |
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Acanac PN
Acanac Support
Premium
join:2008-10-27
Montreal, QC
| reply to T1nART
Wireless Network High-Speed's are some kind of alternative, indeed.
I have tested Rogers GPRS/EDGE/HSDPA 3G(+)(s) based industrial modem/router and Bell CDMA/EVDO-based one.
Rogers type network go much faster, some places you could have 3-4M down. Bell's was about 1M (maybe the technology has a limit there)
But again, in metropolitan areas the full peed is most likely OK.
Out of big cities your speed could drop very low.
And of course, the price is high. |
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