For a moment there I thought you and sennight were the same user. Heh.
Yeah, Canada is pretty bad too when it comes to having the last mile rolled out to every last town and village. We have tower based internet for those usually. If you are really out in the boonies, you might have something based on Xplornet's tech. Having starlink is only a new thing recently; and that's apparently touch and go for people as well.
Ironically, if you don't play video games at all, Cellular is the best kind of connection you can get out there in some places. Otherwise, get a dish and point it at the nearest tower. It's still basically a giant wifi connection at that point, so the latency will not be the best; but it's far better than Xplornet or cellular ever will be on that front. The only thing better than tower, is a proper line going to the house.
One of my old homes was supposed to have said line installed to that town as part of a province wide thing going on at the time. Sasktel was supposed to get EVERYONE connected with cable and internet...
That never happened. They stuck to the cities and bigger towns close to the backbone, and that was it. They then sold access to companies putting up towers and said "that's a wrap".
That said... they had to contend with the rail lines to get past them on multiple occasions, and that gets expensive.
Yeah, Canada is pretty bad too when it comes to having the last mile rolled out to every last town and village. We have tower based internet for those usually. If you are really out in the boonies, you might have something based on Xplornet's tech. Having starlink is only a new thing recently; and that's apparently touch and go for people as well.
Ironically, if you don't play video games at all, Cellular is the best kind of connection you can get out there in some places. Otherwise, get a dish and point it at the nearest tower. It's still basically a giant wifi connection at that point, so the latency will not be the best; but it's far better than Xplornet or cellular ever will be on that front. The only thing better than tower, is a proper line going to the house.
One of my old homes was supposed to have said line installed to that town as part of a province wide thing going on at the time. Sasktel was supposed to get EVERYONE connected with cable and internet...
That never happened. They stuck to the cities and bigger towns close to the backbone, and that was it. They then sold access to companies putting up towers and said "that's a wrap".
That said... they had to contend with the rail lines to get past them on multiple occasions, and that gets expensive.