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, February 09, 2012

CDN article: Rogers to sell USB sticks that can double LTE speeds

It looks like Rogers is upping their game in LTE-land. Currently, Bell and Rogers LTE devices max-out at 25 Mbps, but Rogers' new LTE devices should peak around 40 Mbps... under ideal conditioins.

http://www.itbusiness.ca/IT/client/en/CDN/News.asp?id=65985

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Tuesday, February 07, 2012

CDN Now article: Rogers will stop traffic throttling next month

Here's a link to a recent CDN Now article entitled, "Rogers will stop traffic throttling next month":

http://www.itbusiness.ca/IT/client/en/CDN/News.asp?id=65964

Bell stopped traffic throttling in December:

http://www.itworldcanada.com/blogs/network-world/2011/12/20/bell-will-end-internet-traffic-throttling/63427/

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