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Wholesale rural?

TekSavvy does not offer broadband over power lines. To my knowledge, that technology died before it ever saw any widespread deployments anyhow.

TekSavvy offers DSL service, and in limited areas in rural Ontario, fibre to the home.

reply to Munky1337
BPL never really got off the ground. Won't be seeing any sign of it around Canada. (As far as I know there were zero deployments of it in Canada)

On the contrary. I do believe bell offers it now and in a extreme large number of areas.

»www.bell.ca/shopping/internet.po···t_Access

Then click on "Check out the cities where Bell Internet Portable and Rural services are available"

reply to Munky1337
Yeah no that's not BPL. I can gar ron tee Bell has never messed with BPL. They're talking about their 3G/Cell/Wimax/HSPAwhatever stuff.

reply to Munky1337
Bell's portable and rural internet are both WiMAX-based services. Portable just has an indoor WiMAX modem, while rural uses an outdoor directional antenna for those with a weaker signal.

WiMAX is being developed jointly by Rogers and Bell through Inukshuk. I know Xplornet is another WiMAX provider, but I don't know much about their service. Their reviews here on DSLR don't look good.

reply to Munky1337
And the answer to the other question is that no, TekSavvy almost certainly will never offer Inukshuk access, since it's not regulated and Bell has no obligation to let TekSavvy get any access to that service.

reply to Martian3

Not exactly surprising, does anybody remember how wonderfully effective 900MHz phones were? And those were billed as a big improvement when compared to the ones that came before them :P

reply to Munky1337
Access the Internet anywhere there's a power outlet in 178 cities across Canada.

Power outlet?

I think imma just call up and ask.

I called and asked. Ya it's Wimax.

Crap Crap Double Crap.

Well that pretty much ends this thread

I guess I'll have to whine until they roll out adsl2.

If you're on dialup, 1.5mbit is still a huge improvement...

Keeping in mind, it's pre-WiMax and the 1.5 is not guaranteed at all. The price makes it worthless.

reply to kewlkeed

reply to mlerner
I was referring to the 1.5mbit DSL he was promised. Which at $30 isn't the worst deal in the world, and is still a big improvement over dialup.

Yeah, and so is 56k. 1.5mbit is still about 25x faster than dialup, not to mention the lower latencies.

It still sucks speed-wise, but it may still be a better alternative.

If he were rich, he could also always bond four of them to get a 6meg connection :P

reply to Munky1337
1.5mbit is the dsl I have now.

I was thinking maybe that a different technology such as broadband over power would give me better access to the dslam and perhaps give me better throughput.

adsl2, rdslam i guess is pretty much my only other possibility.

Also I'm not in rural. I'm in the middle of the friggen city. I'm hooked up at the demarc... my central office-dslam is just really far.

Just goes to show how poorly bell has really developed the area.

reply to Munky1337
BPL (Broadband over PowerLines) is a technological nonsense. If there was any chance of it working, we'd have had radio and television over power lines long ago!