01-22-2014, 01:37 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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I'm Moving To Olds! 1000 mbps down/1000 mbps up from $57/month
Small Alberta town gets massive 1,000 mbps broadband boost
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Ultrafast internet speeds that most Canadian city dwellers can only dream of will soon be available to all 8,500 residents in a rural Alberta community for as little as $57 a month, thanks to a project by the town's non-profit economic development foundation.
"We'll be the first 'gig town' in Canada," said Nathan Kusiek, director of marketing for O-Net, the community-owned internet service provider that runs the fibre optic network being built by the non-profit Olds Institute for Community and Regional Development in Olds, Alta., about 90 kilometres north of Calgary.
On Thursday, the board of O-Net gave approval for residents to get access to a full gigabit (or 1,000 megabits) per second of bandwidth for the same price that they currently pay for a guaranteed download speed of 100 megabits per second — $57 to $90 a month, depending on whether they have bundled their internet with TV and phone service.
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Huge thanks to Dion for the signature!
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01-22-2014, 01:39 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Sylvan Lake
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Still not worth it.
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01-22-2014, 01:58 PM
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Backup Goalie
Join Date: Oct 2008
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Needs to be that fast to be able to realistically imagine you don't live in Olds.
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01-22-2014, 02:12 PM
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CP Gamemaster
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: The Gary
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"We had engineering companies here who were sending memory chips by courier because there wasn't enough bandwidth to deal with their stuff," recalls Joe Gustafson, who spearheaded the project to bring a fibre network to Olds.
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Who calls Flash Drives/USB Sticks "memory chips"? Maybe in a fibre optic future, we have different terms for everything?
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01-22-2014, 02:16 PM
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Scoring Winger
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Why are you reading the news from July 2013?
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01-22-2014, 02:41 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: in your blind spot.
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Originally Posted by rain_e
Why are you reading the news from July 2013?
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Because it just popped up on the front page of Reddit.
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—Bill Clinton
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge."
—Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, former Librarian of Congress
"But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
—WKRP in Cincinatti
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01-22-2014, 03:15 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Not sure
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Would be handy to have a bit more upload speed but nothing out there is going to come close to utilizing that kind of bandwidth.
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01-22-2014, 03:18 PM
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Scoring Winger
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: In a van down by the river
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Originally Posted by rain_e
Why are you reading the news from July 2013?
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See, that's the problem with sending memory chips in the mail with news releases.
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01-22-2014, 03:22 PM
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#1 Goaltender
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: the middle
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House of four, lots of downloading, lots of netflix, lots of gamecentre and gaming, not a bit of lag and all cheaper than we could have gotten with Shaw.
It. Is. Awesome.
However it is the only thing I will miss when I'm done here in April.
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01-22-2014, 03:30 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Quote:
Originally Posted by rain_e
Why are you reading the news from July 2013?
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Sorry folks, I didn't realize this was old news. As was mentioned, it popped up on Reddit and I thought it was new.
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01-22-2014, 03:41 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: in your blind spot.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Nehkara
Sorry folks, I didn't realize this was old news. As was mentioned, it popped up on Reddit and I thought it was new.
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It popped up there because the Google Internet measuring tool.
In the discussion someone was saying how they wished Google fibre would come to Canada and that is when someone else posted the article about Olds.
So some enterprising sole submitted that to Reddit and here we are.
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"The problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence."
—Bill Clinton
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge."
—Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, former Librarian of Congress
"But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
—WKRP in Cincinatti
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01-22-2014, 04:21 PM
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#12
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Sector 7-G
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And in related news...Kleenex and tube socks sales are at an all time high in Olds....
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01-22-2014, 06:45 PM
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Late Bloomer
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Campo De Golf
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Move to Romania if you want fast internet. I don't think they throttle it at all.
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