| EricHiggin said: Canada is way behind due to the few big telecoms like Bell, Rogers, etc not giving a crap about quality and anyone outside of city limits. Even some of the people within the cities are getting poor service do to partial fiber systems and outdated electronic equipment. Unless you have a decent smaller ISP around your area, you aren't getting much better than what you have now, unless your really lucky. Southern Ontario had to put together a group called SWIFT and go to the smaller ISP's as well as private investors, then to the Provincial and Federal Government for funding for a new 100% fiber system. They just got the funding mid 2016 I believe, and are still in the process of planning. Right now they say phase 1, which is simply larger trunk lines to the main hubs, should be completed by 2020, which will just relieve some peak throttling. The actual home connections, phase 3 and 4, will be 2030 to 2040. This covers everywhere west of HWY 400 (Toronto), including Niagara. My area has had so many issues with throttling that the local water treatment/sewage facilities, etc, that completely rely on stable connection, have to now be constantly monitored on site. Not to mention between 5pm-11pm the internet isn't much better than dial up. Our county just reached a $1.5 million dollar deal with local ISP's Execulink and Kwic to install a complete fiber system with new electronic equipment. It will fix all the problems and around 10,000 people will have access up to 1gbps at reasonable prices. Sure enough, the fiber stops about 5km before our house out in the country, so if we're lucky we may be able to upgrade to 10mpbs-15mbps maybe, through the dsl that will tap off of that fiber trunk line. If not, it will still be 5mbps, but throttle free. If you really really want good internet/packages anytime soon, you basically have to do your homework and move to where its good. |
Good to know it will still happen in my lifetime lol.
When I moved to Canada in 2002 we were one of the first to get 'always on' internet. Through cable, no limits, great speed for the time. However, as more people got connected it got slower on average, more unreliable and caps introduced (first only 60GB a month)
Now I live in a small town (11K people), SW Ontario. Beautiful spot so I don't want to move. I guess we're lucky it still works as well as it does. Just don't expect to much of the internet on holidays. The lowest my ps4 registered on a connection test was 139 kbps. Download at night, not because it's cheaper, because it goes much faster. Yet they still advertise with 'upto' 50mbps down, which is technically acurate, just not in peak hours. At least it's still more reliable than vgchartz is :)
