Use wireless. There are reasonably priced point to point bridges available.
-- Keith Stokes > On Jun 26, 2015, at 11:18 PM, Peter Kristolaitis <alte...@alter3d.ca> wrote: > >> On 6/26/2015 7:26 PM, Joe Abley wrote: >> >>> On 26 Jun 2015, at 15:04, Hank Disuko wrote: >>> >>> Bell Canada is apparently gearing up to provide the good people of Toronto >>> with the World's Fastest Internet™. >>> http://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/2015/06/25/bell-canada-to-give-toronto-worlds-fastest-internet.html >>> >> >> Bell Canada is in the business of defending the current regulatory regime >> from claims that internet speeds are slow, or that investment by incumbents >> in the last mile is lacking, or that it ought to be required to share its >> access network with competitors. Read the press with that context in mind. >> >> There's cooperative, rural broadband in the UK [1] that offers 10G access to >> farms at a lower price than Bell charges for some satellite TV bundles. I >> don't think anybody need waste any cycles persuading other people here that >> the "fastest internet" claims are not aligned precisely with the kind >> reality you find even on this list. >> >> Joe >> >> [1] http://b4rn.org.uk > > And defend the current regulatory regime well they do. I live literally > minutes outside of the Ottawa urban area and I have as choices for network > connectivity either LoS wireless or satellite. I can, however, stand at the > end of my driveway and look in EITHER direction to see houses that can get > cable service, yet none of the incumbents are willing to service my little > stretch of road (affecting me and ~5 neighbours). > > I'm told by the neighbours (I just moved here) that they've been bugging the > incumbents for YEARS and getting no traction at all. I'm thinking of pricing > out a fiber run and running a little local co-op network access provider for > me and the neighbours, but I suspect that install costs might nix that idea. > > (For extra fun, I was told by one of the incumbents that my address was > serviceable with up to 150Mbps cable before I purchased the property. Then > when I took possession and tried to get service set up -- nope, sorry. But > that's a whole other story...) >
