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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Where is your house? I have a little network that I
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=john@netdirect.ca
href="mailto:john@netdirect.ca">john@netdirect.ca</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Friday, January 30, 2009 6:45 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=kwlug-disc@kwlug.org
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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [kwlug-disc] Rogers Bandwith Limit - Consequences of
exceeding?</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#990099><A
href="mailto:-----kwlug-disc-bounces@kwlug.org">-----kwlug-disc-bounces@kwlug.org</A>
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face="Courier New,Courier,monospace" size=3>Rashkae <<A
href="mailto:rashkae@tigershaunt.com">rashkae@tigershaunt.com</A>>
writes:<BR>> ... kicking sleeping<BR>> homeless people to the
head.<BR><BR>Well la-de-da Mr. I-Got-High-Speed<BR><BR>> (Rogers has
dial-up?)<BR><BR>Golden Triangle aka Execulink<BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>Now I
understand your problem. You can't use any DSL provider since they all resell
Bell's services. Even the ones that don't still co-located in the same
COs.<BR><BR>One thing to watch is that developing neighbourhoods, if it
financially permits, get mini-COs to bring the DSLAM closer to your
house.<BR><BR>My situation is not too far from yours. I've got sketchy DSL since
my move to an adjacent neighbourhood. It still works okay, it's just took a
modem change to make it acceptable.<BR><BR>My solution can be solved by going
back to Rogers if I care to.<BR><BR>Your's on the other hand sounds like you
have limited options. You can consider a few things depending on your
location:<BR><BR>1. Terago (nee World without wire) offers 802.11 wireless
service. Last I heard they were still priced beyond residential rates.<BR>2.
Sympatico offers "unplugged" service, a WiMAX wireless offering.<BR>3. There is
satellite service in two varieties: 1 uses your existing analog to make download
requests (like web pages) and it sends the downloads through the satellite
signal. The other is actual bi-direction satellite. This is also higher than
residential rates, but it is less than $100.<BR>4. Fibreoptic. This is probably
your most costly option, but man it's fast and clean. At a $5k startup and
$600/month it's likely beyond your budget.<BR>5. Dedicated T1 (hundreds in setup
and hundreds per month.)<BR><BR>Then there are contractually prohibited options
like sharing a neighbours' Internet, if you have a neighbour far enough away to
have good service and close enough for a wifi signal.<BR><BR>I can only give
first hand reports on fibre. I have a friend on satellite (bi-dir) who finds
latency too poor for SSH. I've seen wireless service (not Wi FI or Max) that had
lots of packet loss due to collisions (It was a toronto market.)<BR><BR>Aside
from WiMAX, it seems to me 512Kb looks like cheap bandwidth compared to the
options.<BR></DIV></FONT>
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