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Review by kgm See Profile

  • Location: Caledon, ON, Canada
  • Cost: $35 per month
  • Install: about 30 days
Provides reliable and unlimited broadband over wireless point-to-point link with excellent service.
With any wireless service, severe weather can affect the performance, that's about it.
They have a capable service and installation team that can bring high quality broadband out to rural areas, not just metro.
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I recently moved out into a rural area and was relying on a Bell LTE hub for a year and a half, using basic internet for work and browsing due to the prohibitive data cap. I looked at a few line of sight wireless providers, but my property just wasn't in range of anything. The forests blocked line of sight to other distant providers, and the only alternative with a data cap anywhere near useful was satellite, which had latencies far beyond what is useable for my application.

Fortunately, I found Standard Broadband, who went the extra mile and made a reliable unlimited high speed connection happen out here and for many of my neighbours on the street. Their installation team came out and did a full survey, and after the TV antenna wasn't high enough to make the line of sight link, they brought out a survey truck and tested higher tower heights until they found a good signal. I was able to work directly with their local install team to get a higher tower installed at the back of the property, and I'm now receiving steady 9 Mbps / 1 Mbps service, with the ability to go even faster should that be needed -- all with an unlimited cap.

The connection is reliable and has performed well for real-time applications like remote desktop and gaming. It also handles my VOIP system very well and can stream media at the highest quality without any buffering.

They didn't quit at the initial survey and they found a great solution to get solid and reliable broadband out here in the boonies! I can't recommend them enough and got a few other people around me signed up already. If you're located in the Milton or Georgetown area, including rural regions around those cities, they can most likely make the connection happen. I would also subscribe to this service in the city, since you can basically "cut the cable" given the speed and reliability of these links.

Edit: I forgot to add their URL. »www.standardbroadband.ca/

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