Our options: Satellite, cable or Mage (point to point wireless)

How’s your internet service? Out here at the end of civilization we’ve struggled with slow, poor and expensive internet service for years. Our options include:

Satellite internet from Xplore or Starlink. Both are great if you can get them.

Cable – Only in the hamlet, you say. Telus hooked them up. 

The Mage network seems to have provided a viable alternative. It uses a  point-to-point signal using send/receive cones installed on power poles. If you can’t get or can’t afford a satellite service, try Mage.

Another alternative is cellular wireless. It’s expensive and limited, but it works.

The results from my home in West Bragg Creek

Satellite – Xplore offers satellite service all across Canada. They have promised to upgrade the service. The thing with satellite is the distance (35 miles) to the satellite. It takes time to start transmitting, it’s called latency.

But I get signal, 114 Mbps download and I’m happy.