Last Post.
Edit:::::: If some links do not work(since they are now old) you could use Google to find stuff. https://encrypted.google.com/webhp
Hi.
I may update some older posts..
End of line. Shutting down. Hibernate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
But you also have so much information available now in various places to make educated choices on the products, that was not there in the past.
Post your reviews of the Xplornet service at http://www.dslreports.com/reviewit
Please post a detailed description of your experience with the service and the speeds that you experience. And what particular method of transmission you are on(Telesat, Hughesnet, ViaSat's: ViaSat1, or Xplornet's various frequencies of wireless). And what is your package name.
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edit:july 16 2011
looks like xplornetsucks.com has had it's data base kicked off to the side.
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edit: august 4 2011.......
There is a new forum for Xplornet users(not much activity on it). no affiliation with this blog.
http://www.xplornetsucks.freeforums.org/
Also...
http://testmy.net/ipb/forum/110-xplornetcom-canada/
Edit: aug 25 2011: Hughesnet users.. Hughesnet owned forum.
http://community.myhughesnet.com/hughesnet/
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Edit: july 6 2011.... the blocked sites seem to be unique to the former everus wireless users.
http://www.xplornetsucks.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1341
Edit:::: june,22,2011.. As per a posting..."There still seem to be sites in the 119.x.x.x address range that remain blocked". Otherwise the 173. IP range is accessible again.....
Edit::: Any problems getting to Xplornetsucks.com or some other sites??? from about june 15th 2011???(posted on june 19 2011).
From a posting """Xplornet has blocked many servers in the 173.x.x.x range"""
It would seem that Xplornet blocked an IP range and is apparently 'working on it' to 'fix' the issue....
proxy servers are a nice way to get where you are going to, when an ISP makes it hard for the user to get somewhere.
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Check out,
http://www.xplornetsucks.com/forums/
For issues you may have, that others have experienced already.
ViaSat 1 specifications YouTube video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RA78RAnCJ8w
the specs in the video do not show the holes in viasat1 service area. so prairies, you are out of luck for getting service from it.
Canada's definition of broadband is 1.5Mbps minimum.(edit: and it may go to 4Mbps minimum) So that would assume no throttling to below 1.5Mbps, otherwise recipients of any Government money in rural expansion programs would be in violation of the programs criteria, if they allow or make speeds to below 1.5Mbps.
http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/719.nsf/eng/h_00001.html
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Edit: july 2 2011: xplornet has listed their traffic management policies for all platforms for public viewing.
http://www.xplornet.com/legal/xplornet-traffic-management-policy.aspx
dec 15 2010. Xplornets new wireless traffic management policy to take affect on March 1 2011.
march 4 2011, Caps delayed? http://www.xplornetsucks.com/forums/showpost.php?p=8016&postcount=14
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,25191677
And a new Petition to protest the new bandwidth caps. Feb.4.2011.
http://www.gopetition.com/petition/42649.html
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Feb 8 2010
And from the, 'Not this shit again' department. for Telesat satellite at least. And Wireless.
It's been confirmed that Xplornet is reducing download speeds on such sites as, RapidShare. The throttling lifts during the FAP free time overnight and is then reapplied.
So it's not you or the site. It's Xplornet.
It's one thing to throttle P2P, but when you make a site useless for what the site is, that is not right.
So whats next? Slowdown Windows updates? Which Microsoft would be all over in a heartbeat.
People are paying for the service at these websites, but can not use them, except when the cage door opens for a few hours overnight.
And to add.... A user posted this on Xplornetsucks.com for Telesat satellite -----
usage on your Xplornet account has been significantly higher than the usage of an average Xplornet customer (approximately 7GB/month). Therefore, Xplornet will be introducing a maximum monthly usage of 20 GB per month on your service beginning April 1st 2010. Xplornet will be monitoring the bandwidth consumption on your account over the next 30 days. We request that you work to reduce your usage to the above-stated level. If you do not reduce your usage, Xplornet will begin limiting your Internet access connection speed to a maximum speed of up! to 128kbps for any consumption beyond the monthly 20GB usage threshold. If you wish to return to your original package speed, you will have the option of doing so by purchasing additional bandwidth at a fee of $2 per GB.
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Canada's Privacy Commission and DPI(deep packet inspection).
http://www.priv.gc.ca/information/pub/sub_crtc_090218_e.cfm
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Dissolve the CRTC
http://dissolvethecrtc.ca/
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To check and see if a site is available to everyone but you......
http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/
Or if the site is just down to everyone.
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Got a question or problem with your Xplornet system? Post on DSLreports.com or Xplornetsucks.com
Also a quiet forum at DSLreports.com
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/cover,2584
Note: Xplornet Forum to be deleted soon, as not enough traffic to it(many quiet forums soon to disappear).
DSLreports Canadian broadband forum.
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/canbroadband
TestMy.net Xplornet forum.
http://www.testmy.net/ipb/forum/110-xplornetcom-canada/
DSLreports Hughesnet and WildBlue forums.
http://www.dslreports.com/forums/56
WildBlue Owned Forum.
http://www.wildblueworld.com/forum/
Hughesnet users forum.
http://thebetateam.com/forum/
Another one from the beginning of Xplornet. http://www.digitalhome.ca/forum/showthread.php?s=e3e52bcaaf6bc4b80bb23ecabd4ee391&t=47143
EDIT: March 31 2010. It looks like DigitalHome has decided that they don't like Ad blockers(FireFox AdBlockPlus and Chrome AdBlocker). The excuse is, they say the newish forum code is too blame.
I don't like ad's(so I block them) and I can't give revenue, due to never, ever clicking on Ad's. Clicking on ad's gives the site's revenue. Some ad's on sites make money via page views.
The blocking is the reading of the contents of threads if you are using an ad blocker.
And you can just go into blockable items and disable the "hidden" filter. Click the arrow next to the adblockplus stop sign, then 'open blockable items'. Should be the first one on the blockable items list. And right click to disable. And the thread contents show again without ad's.
Some have noted the code on the site shows whats up with posts not showing.
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Hughesnet Faq's pages.
http://www.consumer.hughesnet.com/faqs.cfm
Hughesnet newer usage meter.
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r23723844-Hughesnet-Download-Allowance-Status
http://services.hughesnet.com/service_tools/
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Canadian government website to find Internet, or complain about the Internet you have now from whatever provider.
http://www.ic.gc.ca/app/sitt/bbmap/hm.html?lng=eng
http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/ic1.nsf/eng/04943.html
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Dec. 2009.
Link to Xplornet's traffic managing information.
http://www.xplornet.com/legal/xplornet-traffic-management-policy.aspx
Edit: Dec 2010. So Xplornet is now hiding their traffic management polices from the public. You have to be a user of Xplornet(myxplornet.com) or know what questions to ask the call support agent on what type of throttling there is on the particular platform you intend to purchase/use.
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EDIT: jan 2010: Hughesnet(executive customer care) and WildBlue(executive escalations) in the States, now have teams to try and deal with customers Satellite Internet issues.
This is different from the normal script reader support, that some users find more frustration with, without resolving the users issues.
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A reminder that many Call Support Agents read from scripts and may not have any computer technical knowledge. And Xplornet(and some other ISP's) do not endorse or take any responsibility for what support tells you to do with your computer, as in upgrades, etc., to speed up your connection.
So you may be encouraged to spend a large amount of money on your perfectly working computer, for what is a ISP network problem.
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Edit dec. 2009: New Xplornet speed test site. http://speedtest.myxplornet.com
By the way. The Anikast speed test site is looking like it is now on the Telesat/Xplornet server. Meaning that is does not give Internet speeds. Just the connection between the user and the NOC(network operations center). So if the speed it shows is great(high) in PrimeTime and your websurfing is slow. Try a Internet based speed test to see your actual Internet speed.
http://www.testmy.net/speedtest/d_load.php
Make a donation for bandwidth if you can. With faster speed connections doing tests, it can eat up a lot of bandwidth.
And if you ever wondered how SpeedTest.net speeds can be wrong?
http://www.digitalhome.ca/forum/showthread.php?s=8e833bbb1528f97c61733c19ca9cd720&t=103314
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Xplornet also knows what parts of it's system have lots of bandwidth and what parts are short of bandwidth. It is all part of the system monitors/diagnostics/data logs. So if you notice certain times are slow, Xplornet already knows about it.
And everyone is a small program on the system. All your account settings are in there.
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Satellite latency????? Best is 600ms. But with various software on the system to allow for many, many users. It is more like 1000ms and up. That is a problem some have noted. Forget the text books on what satellite latency should be. It's all in the software of the system.
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EDIT: July 8 2009 Petition closed.
Adding a link to an online Petition that someone has posted for Satellite users.
http://www.gopetition.com/online/24568.html
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Xplornet gets New Brunswick Government contract for final 100% Province coverage and a mandated "No Contracts". Back dated to July 1 2008 and speeds will soon be increased to 1.5Mbps at the price of $49.99 per month.(at least for the Spaceway3 platform, at the moment).
http://www.highspeednb.com/
Xplornet to be deploying 'up to' 200 hundred wireless towers.
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SaskTel is not going to provide 100% land based wireless/wired Internet. Refers people to Xplornet.
http://www.gov.sk.ca/news?newsId=3483cf76-a6f7-47fc-9eaa-7ddbbc30cf4f
SaskTel customers using Xplornet Satellite should do support via SaskTel to start.
Someone posted that 825Kbps is a minimum speed, even during primetime(evening), for Sasktel Satellite Internet customers.
Office of the President of SaskTel.
http://sasktel.com/forms/email-the-president.html
......Sasktel customers--call the Sasktel #1-800-727-5835 and use their menu to get to Xplornet tech support. There are few more steps, but when I did this this morning I got straight to level 2...
This avoids level one support and also lets SaskTel know there is a slowdown with your connection.
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Remember that if Xplornet over charges your bank account, by taking out more payment than Xplornet is entitled too. Xplornet is responsible for any banking overage charges.
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Update June 19 2009.
Hughesnet next KA band satellite to be launched in 2012. A third generation satellite to provide a large amount of bandwidth.
http://www.ssloral.com/html/pressreleases/pr20090616.html
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/hughes-to-launch-100-gbps-high-throughput-satellite-in-2012
Possibly a ViaSat1 satellite.
http://www.viasat.com/broadband-satellite-networks/viasat-1
Note that Loral will also have a ViaSat1 launched sometime in mid 2011.
EDIT: AnikG1 will go next to the AnikF1r. http://www.spacenews.com/satellite_telecom/100601-loral-build-anik.html
To possibly be called the AnikG1. And going in to the AnikF3 space slot.
Edit: note that specifications keep changing on where the satellite space slot will be.
Anik G1 to be new Shaw Direct satellite TV satellite.
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Hey look Hughesnet in the States doing bait and switch. 30 day guarantee applies there.
http://www.testmy.net/forum/index.php?topic=26554.msg307263;topicseen#msg307263
And an add on thought.
http://www.testmy.net/t-27068.msg313975#msg313975
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A rather interesting happening with Hughesnet users in the States who get the upgrade from the KU's to the KA HN9000.
http://hughesnet-internet.com/
New users are not being throttled in the evening on the same beam location, but upgrade users are being throttled.
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EDIT: July 8 2009 Xplornet to use Gmail as the email provider.
Here is the Gmail support pages link.
http://mail.google.com/support/?hl=en
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http://adstandards.com/en/
Or Competition Bureau , as they also take complaints of false advertising.
http://competitionbureau.gc.ca/eic/site/cb-bc.nsf/eng/home
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Public DNS servers
http://www.tech-faq.com/public-dns-servers.html
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Canada's Office of Consumer Affairs.
http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/oca-bc.nsf/eng/h_ca02149.html
With links to various Provinces.
http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/oca-bc.nsf/eng/ca02387.html#a38_2
Consumer protection BC
http://www.bpcpa.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=194&Itemid=132
Consumer Protection Alberta
http://www.servicealberta.gov.ab.ca/index.cfm?fuseaction=section:consumers/
Consumer Protection Saskatchewan
http://www.justice.gov.sk.ca/cpb
Consumer Protection Manitoba
http://www.gov.mb.ca/finance/cca/consumb/index.html
Consumer Protection Ontario
http://www.gov.on.ca/MGS/en/ConsProt/
Fixed the link..
Newer link..
http://www.sse.gov.on.ca/mcs/en/pages/default.aspx
http://www.sse.gov.on.ca/mcs/en/Pages/Cancel_a_Contract.aspx
Consumer Protection Quebec
http://www.consommation.info.gouv.qc.ca/en/index.asp
Consumer Protection Nova Scotia
http://www.gov.ns.ca/snsmr/consumer/
Consumer Protection New Brunswick
http://www.law.unb.ca/cpwala/moreinfo.htm
Consumer Protection Prince Edward Island
http://www.gov.pe.ca/attorneygeneral/index.php3?number=1006678&lang=E
Consumer Protection Newfoundland
http://www.gs.gov.nl.ca/cca/
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Open Office. Office application
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Bandwidth monitor.
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http://bccla.org/
