This is still an issue for people in northern Alberta. Where we live, cable is unavailable.
There are really only 2 options: 1 is wireless from towers located close to where one lives operated by ISP's (eg. prairiewireless)connected to the Supernet cable Ralph Klein had built and the other is satellite, offered by various cable companies (eg. xplornet from Shaw).
Neither is reliable enough.
On 15 Jan, we had big winds that blew down the tower serving us and 40 other towers in the area and we've been without internet access at home since then. So we're looking at alternatives.
Our service was a 1MHz service (according to the tech guy) and our use limit was something on the order of 50GB. We never got close to that but the 1MHz size was limiting. $40.
A general question. What are the important spec's of an internet connection?
Is 1MHz a description of band width and the capacity of our service? (I know that bandwidth and frequency are related.) Or is the relevant spec. bits per sec ?
And how do you arrive at the total of internet service use over a given period?
We use 2 MB's in our house, sometimes simultaneously. An issue we have had over the past 4 or 5 years is spontaneous interruption of a connection to 1 macbook when the other macbook goes online. I listen to radio a lot but it doesn't use much bandwidth (128KHz - is that the right unit?) but if my wife goes to facebook, say, I'm sometimes kicked off. What's with that?
Thanks.
There are really only 2 options: 1 is wireless from towers located close to where one lives operated by ISP's (eg. prairiewireless)connected to the Supernet cable Ralph Klein had built and the other is satellite, offered by various cable companies (eg. xplornet from Shaw).
Neither is reliable enough.
On 15 Jan, we had big winds that blew down the tower serving us and 40 other towers in the area and we've been without internet access at home since then. So we're looking at alternatives.
Our service was a 1MHz service (according to the tech guy) and our use limit was something on the order of 50GB. We never got close to that but the 1MHz size was limiting. $40.
A general question. What are the important spec's of an internet connection?
Is 1MHz a description of band width and the capacity of our service? (I know that bandwidth and frequency are related.) Or is the relevant spec. bits per sec ?
And how do you arrive at the total of internet service use over a given period?
We use 2 MB's in our house, sometimes simultaneously. An issue we have had over the past 4 or 5 years is spontaneous interruption of a connection to 1 macbook when the other macbook goes online. I listen to radio a lot but it doesn't use much bandwidth (128KHz - is that the right unit?) but if my wife goes to facebook, say, I'm sometimes kicked off. What's with that?
Thanks.
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