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Review by (hidden by request)
Posted: 242 days ago
(review was emailed from domain fruitynewt.ca)


T3G 3
$45 per month
"Provides adequate service in rural community with no other ISP access."
"Redirects speedtest.net page requests to their own servers."
"Good helpdesk, adequate speed (not bad for wireless)"
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    Wild Rose is a provider of wireless internet services to rural communities
    in Alberta. I have been a customer for over a year and have found them easy
    to deal with and their service, whilst not as fast as cable or DSL, is
    adequate. Wild Rose is the only ISP to provide service to many rural
    communities in Alberta. Their helpdesk is significantly better than some
    local providers!

    Download Speed: As high as 3 Mbps, normally 1.5 Mbps, sometimes lower.
    Upload Speed: Normally 500 kbps but has been as low as 50 kbps for long periods.

    Wild Rose provides their own speed test page that does not show upload
    speeds. I have been using speedtest.net but now find their DNS servers
    redirect that IP to their own page. I consider this to be poor public
    relations and offensive in a country that prides itself on openness and free
    speech.

    Followup comments:
    zalternate

    join:2007-02-22
    BC
    ·TELUS

    Typical Canadian censorship

    I guess since Rogers censors(via redirects) peoples webpages, that other ISP's might think it's actually legal to do redirects. Imagine grabbing for a truthful reporting newspaper for the latest news and in swoops someone and replaces the paper with the Weekly World News.
    Or you are a page short of the checkout on Amazon.com and instead of going to the checkout on the next click, you end up at another site with a full page ad and your Amazon order was lost due to the redirect.

    Where has our 'Freedom of Communication' gone?

    Try to use
    »www.opendns.com
    DNS servers.
    208.67.222.222
    208.67.220.220

    There are other DNS servers as well.

    Heres something from when Telus censored some websites(during a workers strike) and the outcome.
    »opennet.net/bulletins/010/
    --
    Consumer Rights is more than just a suggestion.
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