 Review by twizlar 
UPDATED: 275 days ago
member for 4.6 years, 2307 visits, last login: a few hours ago
 Brantford,ON
 $49 per month (24 month contract)
 about 20 days
 "Fast, Reliable, LATENCY"
 "None Really"
 "WAY better than dial-up and satellite"
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I Recently received mountaincable's residential wireless connection, first off let me say i have been STUCK on 26.4kbps for the last 5 years as bell has refused to upgrade lines to even achieve anything close to 53k. When i first ordered the service then sent an installer/surveyer out to test the signal levels, he climed up on the roof and said that there was no signal at all (i was not home at the time). I found this odd as several people i know have the service that are lower than us and live farther away from the tower. I called them back and said i would like a surveyer to come back out because i didn't think the first one had properly searched for the signal. Took a few weeks of rescheduling appointments and such but finally someone came out to take a look on Friday April 30th, he climbed up our tv tower and found a 6dB signal. Now where he was is almost the same height as the roof that the other guy was on so i don't know HOW he didn't get signal. The guy was here like 10 mins and he said he would put in the work order on Tuesday (yesterday) the same guy came back installed the wireless receiver, pole and cable on top of our tv tower, and also removed our aerials for us. Second tech showed up 2 hours later with the modem hooked it up gave me the info and it was off and running. The service is amazing considering how far we are from the tower 20+ miles, and the latency is amazing for playing online games i get 30 - 35ms to most sites. The service is rated at 1mbit/128kbps i get ~ 920kbps/120kbps with download spikes up to about 1.4mbps. I don't download that much anyways but it sure is nice for those updates or demos really anything, it just blows dial-up out of the water. This morning it was cold, rainy, and VERY foggy out, so i did a speed and ping test and i was still getting the same for both, as the one worry i had about wireless was that the weather could affect it. Apparently it doesn't, also mountain cable runs @ 3.5ghz so there is no interference with it. I highly recommend this ISP, if you are stuck in dial-up this service is comparatively amazing.
tim
UPDATE: Speed is still awesome, as well as great tech support. They sent out new modems a little while ago and it has made the service even faster and i now have better latency.
UPDATE: Server is still rock solid.
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