| Outlook for people still on GAS I am a little curious looking forwards what the latest decision potentially means for people still on GAS services? Will they stay on it indefinitely or is there going to be some sort of migration away from it? |
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 TSI MartinPremium
join:2006-02-23
Chatham, ON
kudos:23 | Legacy GAS will be there for a while still. Most rural areas still don't have much more than Legacy.
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join:2006-04-26
Kitchener, ON
kudos:2 | reply to jam_bongo
I certainly hope it stays as that's what my in-laws are on and they definitely need the service even if the sync is only 2Mb. |
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join:2000-11-25
Nepean, ON
kudos:5 | reply to TSI Martin
said by TSI Martin:Legacy GAS will be there for a while still. Most rural areas still don't have much more than Legacy.
Martin
Ahem. Most rural areas don't even have DSL.. |
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join:2001-10-14
Canada
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I am very thankful for good quality 6M DSL in our rural village of 3000. It actually ends up being faster to work from home over VPN than it is at my own office.
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join:2009-01-13
Ottawa, ON
kudos:3 | I rented a cottage for a week for the past 3 summers in Lac Ste-Marie, QC and was surprised it has 3 meg DSL. While not lightning quick it came in handy. |
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 andybPremium
join:2003-05-29
SW Ontario
kudos:1 | reply to jam_bongo
The latest decision has no effect on GAS because nothing changed.Transport fee's for usage changed thou so you may see a decrease if you wanted to go to a higher speed.Not so sure actual price for legacy will drop because of that |
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 InssomniakThe GlitchPremium
join:2005-04-06
Cayuga, ON
kudos:1 | reply to jam_bongo
The entire county of Haldimand ONLY has legacy GAS ADSL1. The whole county, and every town in it is stuck at 6MB
I imagine nearby Norfolk county is not in a lot better shape if at all.
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| Rofl The entire population of your county is what? 10 thousand? I know it would be nice to wire it and all but I've worked out there.. It would be a Huge undertaking to fix all those Country hum lines and loadcoils.. P:)
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| said by morisato:Rofl The entire population of your county is what? 10 thousand? Sigh, typical Torontoid. 
If you had used Google prior to making dull comments, you would have realized that your number was off by about 40,000. |
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| said by Gone:If you had used Google prior to making dull comments, you would have realized that your number was off by about 40,000.
Population density is what matters. |
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| said by bjlockie:Population density is what matters. Right, and while there's nothing the size of Markham down that way there are still rural towns like Dunnville and Caledonia that are more than just a few houses in the middle of nowhere. Shaw is doing 100Mbit cable in both. |
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Re: Outlook for people still on GAS Okay So 50 thousand people, The problem is your county is Huge for the return, i doubt you can expect much more than c/o slams ever out there. or a wifi solution of some kind Unless someone needs to run Thru your county to get somewhere profitable.
It sucks i agree But Until broadband becomes a charity your just not worth the effort. Spend 50 million to make it back in several hundred years... Check...
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We're not any better 50k pop, many (most?) can't get 6MB sync due to poor lines (yet the trunk lines sync at 7-8 easily)
Bell laughs when asked about FTTN. (the last couple of sub divisions where wired with copper and tied into the old copper system)
Our biggest move forward was a few* years back when new fibre was ran from Toronto to Kingston, during that time the old copper connection to Kingston was changed to fibre.
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now that I think about it it was several years back, as the news came form a friends father (worked for bell) who was very excited. |
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said by MacGyver:I am very thankful for good quality 6M DSL in our rural village of 3000. It actually ends up being faster to work from home over VPN than it is at my own office.
We patiently await VDSL for faster uploads!
Im in the same situation but our village is 8000 of population
I'm not thankfull... of paying 63 $ for 6 megabits unlimited and here in spain were i am actually , they are paying 39 euros for 100 megabits unlimited...
Having internet in my opinion isn't a privilege, its essential today in 2013.
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Cayuga, ON
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said by morisato:Okay So 50 thousand people, The problem is your county is Huge for the return, i doubt you can expect much more than c/o slams ever out there. or a wifi solution of some kind Unless someone needs to run Thru your county to get somewhere profitable.
It sucks i agree But Until broadband becomes a charity your just not worth the effort. Spend 50 million to make it back in several hundred years... Check...
Hey, Im not complaining, I make a very good living operating my WISP here. With the collapse of Shaw Hamilton's wireless division, piss poor service from xplornet, launch of our new phone service, things are great!
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said by morisato:The problem is your county It's not "my" county. If you look at a map, you will see that Fort Erie is in a Regional Municipality with nearly half a million people.
Despite having half a million people, only one city with 130,000 people - St. Catharines - has any sort of wide-scale FTTN. Welland (50,000), Niagara Falls (80,000) and Niagara-on-the-Lake (13,000) have bits and pieces with FFTN, but it's hardly widescale.
I believe Grimsby and parts of the Town of Lincoln also have small amounts of FTTN. They each have 20,000 people. Hey, what do you know, that's the size of Dunnville in Haldimand County.  |
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said by Inssomniak:The entire county of Haldimand ONLY has legacy GAS ADSL1. The whole county, and every town in it is stuck at 6MB
I imagine nearby Norfolk county is not in a lot better shape if at all.
There is silo wireless but has a bad cap and aint cheap.Looked at getting it for when I'm camping in brant county but was easier just to tether |
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