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DennisMullen
Network Novice
Hace 7 meses

High speed data in Canada

What exactly is "high speed"?  I'm traveling in Canada (from US) and find 12 - 14 Mbps via cell from a hotel room on the 30th floor in downtown Vancouver and about the same using the hotel wifi.  Nei...
  • syaoran's avatar
    Hace 7 meses
    DennisMullen wrote:

    What exactly is "high speed"?  I'm traveling in Canada (from US) and find 12 - 14 Mbps via cell from a hotel room on the 30th floor in downtown Vancouver and about the same using the hotel wifi.  Neither are remotely close to my typical data speed via cell in small-town Eastern WA.  15GB/mo is a nice idea, but not at that rate.  It's adequate for navigation but pretty sluggish for browsing.

     

    Vancouver and most of British Columbia's speeds are around that.  Infrastructure for Bell/Telus in BC and other parts of Canada are very neglected and well over capacity for mostly band/n66 coverage.  Anywhere east of Quebec though is barely 5Mbit.