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.

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Monday, April 06, 2009

CBC Marketplace: Speed Bumps

On Michael Geist's website, he posts an article with a link to a November 2007 episode of CBC's Marketplace in which they supposedly test the download speeds of various ISPs.

The tests aren't really very scientific, since there are way too many variables just in the way they've set up the tests with the end-users, and the fact that each user only ran one test of one very large (700MB) file. However, there are a few accurate comments sprinkled throughout the exposé which warrant attention. I'd also suggest that if you watch the video, you also read the comments included with Michael Geist's article, since there are also some accurate observations.

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