Canadian Broadband → still WISP or highspeed available in Flamborough

Depending where in Flamborough you are, we may be able to reach you with Xplornet 4G wireless (tower on the Gore Road). If not, the new 4G Satellite is night and day to the old satellite.

PM me for more info if you like!

Sorry but voip and skype aren't going to work properly on satellite service.

Xplornet is the last, very last choice. If you can't get online with a tin can and string then yes get xplornet but do yourself a favour and at all cost avoid their service.
Go online and find a positive thing said about them by someone who has had their service. Go ahead look. It will be tough to find. If it exists at all. Have a look at the Xplornet Facebook page. Lot's of love for them there.

»www.facebook.com/Xplornet?ref=ts

Actually it is exactly the same service in terms of the technology used. Viasat 1 still orbits at roughly the same height as the other similar broadband satellite systems and still has theoretical minimum latency of roughly 250ms each way (500ms total + the shitty routing provided by most sat providers). Even at 500ms most realtime applications including voip are going to be total crap.

Most sat phones use LEO satellites, not geosynchronous like viasat 1, so no the technology is not the same at all. Realtime video feeds are run on specialized systems not over IP like skype, etc.

I've used it multiple times, and it is perfectly fine for things like basic browsing and whatnot, but to say that it is in anyway comparable to land based wireless or wireline service is a complete joke.

Still just as crappy. Grade F,

Xplornet has invested/is continuing to invest hundreds of millions of dollars to get service to EVERY Canadian, coast to coast to coast.

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Well, that's a waste of money; their fixed wireless service is probably never going to be able to compete with Fibe or DOCSIS 3, so investing money to service somebody in an urban centre is probably a waste.

But would you rather get 40kbps than 1.98Mbps? Me either.

40 Kbps with 150ms of latency, or 1980 Kbps with 750ms of latency?

If I were stuck in a rural area, I'd take both, and use each for whichever was most appropriate. Latency sensitive things like games over the dialup, bulk data transfers over the satellite.

While I did outline some ideas for merging the two into one effective connection dynamically, a simpler approach is just to route different outbound ports through different connections. You can do that with iptables on your router without any remote server.

Basically, an outbound connection on port 27015 UDP should go through the dialup, since that's Half-Life, and twitch gaming. But an outbound connection on port 80 is browsing, that should go out over the satellite.

Re: your buddy with Xplornet... which Xplornet network is it?

Yes, of course an 800ms ping gets an F compared to urban services. But would you rather get 40kbps than 1.98Mbps? Me either.

EDIT: there is not much point in doing VoIP over dialup, though. In order to do it, you would need a telephone line anyhow, at which point you might as well just get a cheaper long distance provider, which gets you most of the cost savings that VoIP would anyhow.

Seems reasonable, for an expert! But can you even connect a dialup connection to a typical router?? (not saying you can't, I genuinely have no idea).

And when you say "xPlornet is investing"... you truly mean they are spending gobs and gobs of mostly Government money to build a sub-par infrastructure with ridiculous promises of performance and no care to actually meet those promises... but we all understand that's implied of course.