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Re: Upgrades in Smithers?? For me, yes it can be compared. I live in area that's 4-4.5KM from the CO - getting 65-68db attenuation from my SpeedTouch. 1.44 Mbps downstream is all that I can get. During the usual slowdown on 3G/4G in my area, it's still faster than my DSL. During the day, 3G service hovers from 8-12 Mbps. Most areas of Smithers are from 3-6 Mbps on DSL. I know where the priorities lie, and there not in the right place. |
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| How do you propose that VDSL2 would give you any faster speeds? It's still a DSL technology and limited by distance, even more so at faster speeds. So living as far from the CO you wouldn't expect any faster speeds with VDSL2 over what you currently have. |
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 JammerMan79Premium,VIP
join:2004-05-13
Prince George, BC
kudos:10 | reply to VE7HAM
said by VE7HAM :For me, yes it can be compared. I live in area that's 4-4.5KM from the CO - getting 65-68db attenuation from my SpeedTouch. 1.44 Mbps downstream is all that I can get. During the usual slowdown on 3G/4G in my area, it's still faster than my DSL. During the day, 3G service hovers from 8-12 Mbps. Most areas of Smithers are from 3-6 Mbps on DSL. I know where the priorities lie, and there not in the right place.
Where should the priorities lie?
Putting money into wireless upgrades makes more financial sense than into wired network upgrades.
TELUS puts 500k into improving your area for adsl and it covers maybe 30 homes? Or That 500k into a few towers and closes the large wireless coverage gaps along Hwy 16.
That covers way more homes than the 30 plus improves the safety situation along that corridor.
Just because you're not happy doesn't make the priorities wrong.
That being said... money is flowing into the region for network upgrades. as I previously mentioned, in more rural areas it takes time.
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