Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland

[Keith Stokes <keiths () neilltech com>]

Use wireless. There are reasonably priced point to point bridges available.

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Keith Stokes

> On Jun 26, 2015, at 11:18 PM, Peter Kristolaitis <alter3d () alter3d ca> wrote:
>
> > On 6/26/2015 7:26 PM, Joe Abley wrote:
> >
> > > On 26 Jun 2015, at 15:04, Hank Disuko wrote:
> > >
> > > Bell Canada is apparently gearing up to provide the good people of Toronto with the World's Fastest Internet™.
> > > http://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/2015/06/25/bell-canada-to-give-toronto-worlds-fastest-internet.html 
> >
> > Bell Canada is in the business of defending the current regulatory regime from claims that internet speeds are slow, 
> > or that investment by incumbents in the last mile is lacking, or that it ought to be required to share its access 
> > network with competitors. Read the press with that context in mind.
> >
> > There's cooperative, rural broadband in the UK [1] that offers 10G access to farms at a lower price than Bell 
> > charges for some satellite TV bundles. I don't think anybody need waste any cycles persuading other people here that 
> > the "fastest internet" claims are not aligned precisely with the kind reality you find even on this list.
> >
> > Joe
> >
> > [1] http://b4rn.org.uk
>
> And defend the current regulatory regime well they do.  I live literally minutes outside of the Ottawa urban area and 
> I have as choices for network connectivity either LoS wireless or satellite. I can, however, stand at the end of my 
> driveway and look in EITHER direction to see houses that can get cable service, yet none of the incumbents are 
> willing to service my little stretch of road (affecting me and ~5 neighbours).
>
> I'm told by the neighbours (I just moved here) that they've been bugging the incumbents for YEARS and getting no 
> traction at all. I'm thinking of pricing out a fiber run and running a little local co-op network access provider for 
> me and the neighbours, but I suspect that install costs might nix that idea.
>
> (For extra fun, I was told by one of the incumbents that my address was serviceable with up to 150Mbps cable before I 
> purchased the property.  Then when I took possession and tried to get service set up -- nope, sorry.  But that's a 
> whole other story...)