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

[oneoff]

Are there any wireless plans that are "unlimited" and can be viewed with decent video quality on a tv set or larger display monitor?

[Gerald_sk]

Funny to come across this tonight. I have been wondering what to do with
the sasktel deal. Think there is something funny about this. They say
they have to return to frequency for other uses, but yourlink is using
the same frequencies. Maybe yourlink pulled a fast one on Sasktel with
their dealings in Ottawa.
Anyway I looked at satellites system when I when for Sasktel's wireless.
All comments I read in the US is the satellite internet is a last
resort system. Reading fair use policies for their system looks
like you have to watch your daily use. Watch anymore than hour of
netTV could put you on their bad list for the next 24hours.

Some friend use yourlink. The system has more down time than
Sasktel, but generally works. My problem is even with close tower,
trees are blocking the tower. The tree win over a good internet
system.
Present idea may be go with 3G hotspot and use my smart phone. I
am paying 25/month and hard use any data, as most has come via
sasktel and my farm wireless system. Also maybe a poor internet
would end up with more work getting done.

[almoy]

We had YourLink at one time. Will not go
there again. Was very unreliable.