Sasktel Xplornet ?

[almoy]

Anyone use Sasktel Xplornet ? Pros and
cons? We are losing our internet service
and have to find a new source.

[Partners]

We have had it for a few yrs. now, just up graded to the faster 3.0..Works VG..

[oneoff]

Too bad that only the obvious gets considered; and that only a solution for one party enters the equation.

We could all learn from the experience of early rural pioneer telephone and even rural electrification and water and sewer provision.

Anyone able to elaborate on those history lessons?

[oneoff]

Where's the vision?

Think rural areas; municipal governments and what they have jurisdiction and control over. It is not radical to expect basic (or even affordable bandwidth intensive services) in addition to waste disposal, fire protection, road construction and maintenance; zoning control and police protection etc.

Last chance on Sept 19 for the next four years. Not a whisper about the opportunity in the municipal elections that will be all but decided in less than a couple weeks.

[bluefargo]

Explornet hasn't worked too bad for us. Wind, rain and wind sometimes seem to give us problems temporarily. We have nothing to compare it to.

[Hopperbin]

The old explornet was not good, I just upgraded to the new g service also comes via the new satelite. Now can download a video. Not really experiences the speeds supposed yet, wonder if old computor.

[Hopperbin]

the new is same price and free equiptment.

[almoy]

Which package did you get, Hopper?

[Hopperbin]

I don't know actually, thought it was all the same now and thought I was told you get unlimitted data.

[mustardman]

It should be called XplorNot. Slightly better than dial up speed for 3 x the price our city friends pay for Actual high speed

[oneoff]

And mustardman's pointis well taken. Grassroots was an impressive 300 bit per second "experiment" maybe some 20 years ago. And it required a very good telephone line.

I challenge anyone to run Netflix (USA) or Amazon video streaming; while use it for your long distance telephone service or any other bandwidth intensive service etc. etc..

Don't waste your time trying to watch tens of Gigabytes of usage pile up; because it will be physically impossible and prohibitively expensive even if you could ever accomplish any of your goals.

[stubblejumper]

an Iphone with unlimited dataplan used as a hotspot