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Is the investment in a satellite system is worth it or not.
If you are one of the many with problems...Contact your MLA or MP
http://www.canada.gc.ca/directories/direct_e.html
to get them to look into business practices of 'any' internet provider. Some government officials quote two year old information. Slow speeds and poor support can only be ignored for only so long. You want what you pay for. What if you were buy a gallon of milk and only get "up to" a gallon and only receive half a gallon..
And by the way..The 'up to' quote before each package speed is actually the "burst speed". But seems it would be more fair for Xplornet to quote the standard expected speeds on each package(The range of speeds expected and Honesty in advertising rules).. But that would not take into account over selling the spot beams,or not enough server bandwidth on the ground stations, resulting in speeds that get to be real slow during 'peak times'.
