Welcome to the self-proclaimed Rural Ottawa High-Speed Internet Blog. High-speed Internet access is virtually ubiquitous in the urban and suburban areas of Ottawa, but when I started this blog in 2005, only about 60% of the rural areas of Ottawa have coverage. However, even for rural citizens, high-speed Internet access is becoming as necessary as telephone service. Happily, high-speed coverage for rural Ottawa has increased significantly, and not only is coverage reportedly above 90%, many rural residents and businesses now have more than one choice of high-speed ISP.

This purpose of this weblog is to track news and events related to high-speed (broadband) Internet access in the rural areas of Ottawa and, to a lesser extent, in nearby townships.

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Thursday, October 30, 2008

Monitor Article: Portable Internet

In the October 2008 issue of Ottawa's own Monitor Magazine, there's a feature article entitled Portable Internet on page 26. The author, Eric Jacksch, tested Rogers Portable Internet service from his own home in Ottawa south and describes his findings, including upload and download speeds.

You can download the full October 2008 issue of Monitor in PDF format by clicking
http://monitor.ca/monitor/PDF/MONITOR_October2008.pdf.

Side note: I'm soooo glad that Monitor has started producing complete online issues (in both PDF and SWF (macromedia flash) formats). I've been having trouble finding the print copies, and although the feature articles used to be available on their webpage, the ads never were.

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