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Big Muddy rancher

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I have a heck of a time changing pages on ranchers in the evenings or doing any surfing of the web. Morning the computer just flys. I have satellite internet by Xplornet. Since we got it, Sasktel now uses Xplornet to service customers not close to regular High speed. Well it turns our they "Throttle us down" so we don't use as much band width making us not much faster then good old dial up. :x
 
Do you have to sign a contract? Are there any other options? I wonder if it's slower in the evening because there are more people using it at the same time?

When I was checking highspeed out in Manitoba, I was warned about Xplornet for just the problems you guys are having. My friend has it and loves it, but she's not on the net much. We got lucky when the local TV cable company put an antenna on the water tower in town. If you're within line of sight, you can get it, and we live uphill from town so it works.
 
Not a signed contract as such. When you buy the dish and every two or three years you renew your agreement with them over the phone and commit to it by email.
The package we have states that it is so many dollars for unlimited minutes per month. One representative told me I we had been on the computer for a lot of minutes when I called about service being slow. When I told this person there was nothing about extended use or limiting service in our agreement the speed came up to par again. :wink:


By the way, where can you get uphill from anywhere in Manitoba? :P
 
If you get decent Cell coverage on a rodgers based network they have a system for about $ 40 a month , but the rocket scientest marketers only sent the units to their company stores in cities where lots of options are available
https://www.orderrogers.ca/rocket/?province=AB
 
Big Muddy rancher said:
I have a heck of a time changing pages on ranchers in the evenings or doing any surfing of the web. Morning the computer just flys. I have satellite internet by Xplornet. Since we got it, Sasktel now uses Xplornet to service customers not close to regular High speed. Well it turns our they "Throttle us down" so we don't use as much band width making us not much faster then good old dial up. :x
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I've got Wildblue internet service, it's supposed to be unlimited except for the fine print... you can only download a certain number of mega bytes before they give you a speeding ticket. Yep, I got speeding ticket. They slowed by connection down to a snail's pace and didn't turn it back up for a week. :mad:
 
Triangle Bar said:
Big Muddy rancher said:
I have a heck of a time changing pages on ranchers in the evenings or doing any surfing of the web. Morning the computer just flys. I have satellite internet by Xplornet. Since we got it, Sasktel now uses Xplornet to service customers not close to regular High speed. Well it turns our they "Throttle us down" so we don't use as much band width making us not much faster then good old dial up. :x
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I've got Wildblue internet service, it's supposed to be unlimited except for the fine print... you can only download a certain number of mega bytes before they give you a speeding ticket. Yep, I got speeding ticket. They slowed by connection down to a snail's pace and didn't turn it back up for a week. :mad:
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I've had Wildblue since 2005, haven't gotten any speeding tickets yet. Beats the heck out of dialup.
 
There's lots of hills in Manitoba!

Not much choice for highspeed though. MTS is not committed to rural customers at all. They, and Rogers have high speed available with those little sticks, but they can get very expensive if you go over your limit.
 
I got a guy to come out with his ghostbusters deal to see if we had line of sight to a tower-I put my dish up on a ten foot mast so have regular sask tel highspeed.
 
We had to put up a 60' TV tower to get the receiver dish high enough to grab wireless signal and we're only 4 miles from the tower. Lots of trees between here and there though.

We had lightning fast service until they got too many customers for their bandwidth and now it starting to get slooooowwwww again. But still beats the heck out of dial-up when I couldn't really see the pictures here on Ranchers.
 

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