High-speed Internet Services
High-speed Internet service is now available to 100% of rural Ottawa homes and businesses...
WIRED NETWORKS:
Two types of service: DLS (Digital Subscriber Line) or digital Cable. A service supply wire runs to your building to a special modem provided by the service provider - this is connected to your computer or network router with a cat-5 network cable. Both types of service are 'always on' unless you unplug the equipment. They do not affect television or phone services on the same wire. DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) is supplied via a normal telephone line. Each telephone on your line will require noise filters. Cable-based service uses a digital cable line which can also supply television and phone service. Availability for both depends on location.
- Serves Manotick, North Gower, CGYC, Osgoode
- Uses wired fibre-optic cable and microwave networks
- Similtaneous TV, digital TV, and high speed Internet
- Requires digital-grade cable line and a (rented) cable modem
- Bundled prices for cable TV/phone and mobile services
- 2008: Rogers admits to "traffic shaping", which may reduce service levels.
- Serves villages: Manotick, North Gower, Osgoode
- Wired DSL (digital subscriber line), 3Mb/s (down)
- Does not affect telephone service
- Requires telephone line, DSL modem, DSL filters
- Bundled prices for satellite TV, phone and mobile services
- 2008: Bell admits to "traffic shaping", which may reduce service on any DSL service that uses it.
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The National Capital Freenet is a not-for-profit community network
- Serves same area as Sympatico DSL, same equipment
- Fewer options, online help, phone help weekdays only
- Also dialup Internet connections for Ottawa region
- Only supplier of dial-up "text" connections
- Supplies thousands of public newsgroups and member-only groups
- No contract - monthly payment in advance
- Same area and requirements as Sympatico DSL
- Also dialup Internet connections for Ottawa region
- Same area and requirements as Sympatico DSL
FIXED WIRELESS NETWORKS:
Fixed (ISP) transmitting towers using line-of-sight antennas transfer data to and from an outdoor antenna attached to your building. This is wired into the building to special electronic equipment which is attached to your computer (NIC card) or network router with a cat-5 network cable. Service is 'always on' unless you unplug the equipment.
- 567-6585, 1-888-386-8516 brian@storm.ca
- Kars, North Gower. 2006: former Arryba/AccessTNG subscribers in Osgoode, Carleton Golf & Yacht Club (CBC news)
- 2 Mb/s shared service
- 2002: Pilot project in North Gower, Kars
- 821-9990 1-888-203-0411
- Vernon, Carp, Manotick (Century Rd), Bank St/Mitch Owens, Metcalfe (8th Ln), Metcalfe (Rd 6/41), Osgoode (Dalmeny), Osgoode (Enniskerry), Winchester. Osgoode/CGYC see above.
- Network uses fibre, copper and wireless
- 1-866-841-6001
- City of Ottawa project:
- Wireless receiver or satellite 67 cm dish (where wireless can't be used)
- $30-$50/month, installation $100-$200
- 2005 Kemptville tower serves Kars, Leeds and Grenville
- Coverage map
SATELLITE WIRELESS NETWORKS:
Wireless satellite-based service requires an outside antenna connected to special equipment attached to your computer network card or network.
RAMTelecom <www.RAMTelecom.ca>- 747-1836 GPatterson@ramtelecom.ca
- 2003 First satellite-based Wi-Fi service
- Launched by Hughes Network Systems
- covers North America
- 822-0177, 727-0741
- INetVU Wireless Internet satellite-based service
- Packages with Start Choice TV
- Digital TV and high speed Internet to companies
- Satellite Anik F2 based all-weather service
- 247-8023 andre@digital-city.ca
- 1-866-841-6001 info@xplornet.com
- City of Ottawa project to service Rural Ottawa (see top)
- Aug/2005 Anik satellite service
- Satellite 67 cm dish (also Fixed Wireless)
- Technology: Telesat Ka-band, DirecWay Ku-band system by Hughes Network Services, Tachyon Networks Inc. technology
OTHER NETWORKS:
Portable Internet - Rogers Yahoo! <rogers.com/portable>- No antenna or wires
- requires external modem plugged into a 110-volt plugin in the coverage areas
- coverage in 100 Canadian cities (coverage area)
- uses Inukshuk network, a national wireless broadband network
- 1.5 Mbps / 256 kbps up
Area code 613 must precede local phone numbers.
Free Internet Access
- Libraries and municipal offices have free Internet access terminals.
Links
- Ottawa's Rural Communities Network (ORCnet) - creating high speed Internet service for Ottawa's rural areas with 2,359 sq. km. and a population around 77,400. Wireless service began near North Gower in January 2002.
- OCRI / SmartCapital - online services for Ottawa
- Networks Ontario expands access to remote and rural communities
- National Capital Freenet - non-profit community ISP, dialup (text or Internet) and broadband (ADSL)
- First Line Road Internet - First Line and Century Road East including Waterson Corners [map]
- Internet Safety Information - how to net-proof your kids (Google.com)
- iOptOut.ca - extension of Canada's "do-not-call" registry
- Traffic shaping by ISPs degrades Internet usage:
- Fair Copyright for Canada (Facebook Group)
Copyright law is a way to protect creators' rights to be in control of the use anyone makes of their creations. In other words, you may not use another person's creations without their permission even if you credit them. (Links and short quotes for reviews are permitted.) The creator may choose to grant you permission to use specific written words or art for free, but it is their decision, not yours. --Pat Drummond
Internet Statistics
- A directory of Canadian Internet Statistics from GDsourcing.com
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Statistics Canada's Household Internet Use Survey 2000 (graphs
and statistics by access location, province, income, age, and privacy
concerns)
Highlights:- Internet use took its biggest jump ever in 2000. 51% of all Canadian households measured had at least one member who was a regular Internet user from one location or another, up from 42% in 1999.
- The biggest percentage of use was from home. About 78% of households were connected to the Internet by telephone, and the remainder by cable.
- In 1999, 65% of households had at least one person who regularly used the Internet from home a minimum of seven times a week. In 2000, that proportion was 71%.
- In 1999, about 47% of households had someone who spent 20 hours or more a month on the Internet. In 2000, it had risen to 61%.
- Statistics Canada's Canadian Internet use survey 2005 indicates nearly 7 million adult Canadians bought goods and services worth $7.9 billion on the Internet in 2005. 41% of Canadians who used the Internet, made a purchase.
Area code 613 must precede local phone numbers.
Manotick Ontario
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