Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland

[mureninc at gmail.com (Constantine A. Murenin)]

On 26 June 2015 at 11:04, Hank Disuko <gourmetcisco at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Bell Canada is apparently gearing up to provide the good people of Toronto with the World's Fastest Internet?.
> http://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/2015/06/25/bell-canada-to-give-toronto-worlds-fastest-internet.html

Only 1Gbps?!

LOL, but US Internet offers 10Gbps!

    http://fiber.usinternet.com/plans-and-prices/

    https://lobste.rs/s/mv7bzs/us_internet_to_offer_higher-speed_10gbps_connections_in_minneapolis_for_400_usd

Yes, residential; yes, 10000Mbps; yes, only 399,00 USD/mo, which
amounts to 39 bucks per gigabit.

Bell's 1Gbps is by no means the world's fastest internet.

Not even in Canada:

    http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/small-alberta-town-gets-massive-1-000-mbps-broadband-boost-1.1382428

    http://montrealgazette.com/technology/canada-can-learn-from-olds-ab-the-city-with-the-fastest-internet-speed

>>>> While homes in cities like Vancouver, Montreal, and Toronto are toiling with maximum speeds only up to 100 megabits per second, in Olds Alberta ? 90 kilometres north of Calgary ? they have access to one Gigabit per second connections, and at the bargain basement rate of $57 per month, with no data caps.

Also, is Bell any different from AT&T and Verizon in that it doesn't
peer with like anyone?  Will most Canadian traffic still go through
Chicago or New York?

C.