Rural Internet

[ALBERTAFARMER4]

Anyone thinking about trying this?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/spacex-high-speed-internet-1.5618918 https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/spacex-high-speed-internet-1.5618918

[furrowtickler]

Well I am more than 1 mile from a tower so it would be considered isolated lol
Will definitely look at it
The current system we have access to is very poor

[Dr Tone]

We don’t need another high latency crappy satellite internet provider with tiny data caps. Been there done that. We need better and wider spread cellular solutions.

I’ve been working remotely to Calgary from NE Sask now for a few months and cellular has worked fine for Teams meetings and all my development needs. I can’t imagine trying to do the same over satellite internet.

[woodland]

My folks had xplornet satellite a couple of years ago and it was a fraction the speed of our xplornet tower that’s 7 miles away. Luckily they got switched over but it’s still not like in town.

Our cell service on the other hand has been getting worse lately and that’s frustrating dropping calls all the time.

[Zephyr]

Latency is under 100ms.

It's 150mbit/ second.

And there are no data caps.


At least not on the alpha.

[SASKFARMER]

It sucks have 6 guys in one field 8 miles from a tower and it’s quicker to crawl out of combine walk two swaths over and talk than doing it by cell. Xplornet we have in shop but that’s about all it’s good for and expensive

[SASKFARMER]

Fort tower Sasktel just worry about city guys and couldn’t care about rural.