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Fiber in Windsor, ON?

I'm trying to stay away from Bell, but they appear to be the fastest fiber options I have (that I can find, at any rate.) Can anyone help me out? I'm aiming for 1Gbit.

Is this for Business or Residential? Take a look at mnsi.net (neochu, seems to be using them).

I'm currently with MNSi. Their top speed is ~7mbps (or so they tell me.)

It's for a residential home, but I'm not opposed to a business plan if needed/possible.

This is fairly disappointing. Thank you for the information though.
What's with the slow speeds across the board?

Oof. That sucks.
I've been told that MNSi has been working on their infrastructure. Not sure what they were doing, though.

MNSi has been building their own network in Windsor in bits and pieces for years. All of their equipment is connected by fibre (for example DSLAM to DSLAM) but thats not what they call "last mile" which is what your residence connects to. That is their backbone.

It allows them to increase their ability to provide their own speeds and signal equipment (DSLAMs) to more and more areas without having to borrow from Bell. They still have to use Bell's last mile to get to its customers though.

"Last mile" has multiple parts, each one having its own name and that will include telephone poles, wires, and connection boxes of all types (infrastructure). MNSi doesn't have its own "Last Mile" in Windsor as Bell has the legal monopoly to that in Ontario.

I like to use the term "naked wires" when describing how that works. It may travel on Bell Telephone wiring but its all MNSi's signals and speeds within whatever those naked wires can stably handle.

And its the condition and age of that telephone wiring that makes higher speeds hard to get here (7 or 8mbits on MNSi is a miracle for some poeple).

Because Windsor skipped out on the first and second batch of the higher speed lines (upgrading some of the last mile from copper to fibre) you see really poor speeds here. Alot of Windsor is also not optimized all that well for ADSL2+ or VDSL speeds Last Mile wise because of geography and Central office Locations.

For example, all the F2 wiring here (neighborhood level trunk lines) is still copper and likely from the 20s where many other places -- to support higher speeds--has been upgraded to fibre. Places where you see 50+ Mbit speeds will have their F1 lines (street level trunks) in fibre optic as well because of how sharply those speeds drop with copper wire length.

Wow. Thanks for all that!
Is there any hope in the near future for our speeds to improve?

i love how bell/rogers/cogeco in ontario canada shape the way telecom works. meaning that they are the only ones providing infrastructure...