Jason:
Sorry for the late reply. Took off for North Carolina for a week on
mountain biking.
We're a mere 1 road north of the 401. The houses in this area were built
in the 50's and the phone wiring is original. Between the number of
houses and age of the area residents I doubt there's much call for Bell
to upgrade the wiring.
I do use my BB tethered for work. It is NOT fast, it's just OK.
Downloads happen in the 30kb/s range, and this is true in Ottawa,
Toronto or at home.
Bell WiMAX was faster, but they share infrastructure with Rogers and
have no control over the total subscriber base for any particular ground
station. My connection went from a consistent 500kb/s to 5-12! before I
canceled. Finally got them to admit it was oversold.
All that said, you could find a lot of time to wait for content if you
weren't spending it your car :-)
I am looking at a job in Burlington and I was shocked it could take me
50 minutes to get home at 5PM. And once the new developments get going
on the SE side of Milton it will only get worse.
From my house to the south end of Georgetown is all of 8m.
Rob s.
Jason Bleazard wrote:
> On Tue, May 18, 2010 10:09 pm, Robert Schultz wrote:
>> From ISDN to Bell WiMAX to Xplornet.
>> Other then the newsgroup problem, I'm relatively happy with them.
>> Not much choice in 'rural' Milton.
>
> Ugh... my condolences. You must be out in the sticks. I thought there
> was pretty good DSL and/or cable coverage through most of southern
> Ontario? I think if neither of those options were available, I'd be
> tempted to get a 3G cellular connection. How's your cell reception? From
> the coverage maps it looks like Milton is fairly well saturated at the
> highest speeds, but of course those maps are cooked up by the marketing
> department.
>
> The reason I'm interested is I've thought about finding a place in the
> rural areas around Milton someday. I currently commute from Burlington to
> Georgetown, and I like the scenery. However, I've also gotten used to my
> DSL, even if it does top out at 5Mbit.
>
> Actually, the wireless aspect is also relevant for when I'm out in the RV.
> What made you switch from WiMAX?
>
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