jondaryan

SaskTel Internet powered by Xplornet/Telesat/Hughesnet is satellite. So those that converted their billing over to Sasktel from Xplornet and then still get billed by Xplornet are supposed to get a minimum speed of 825Kbps.

It's part of the SaskTel corrupt 100% high speed Internet coverage in Saskatchewan. Some small towns were supposed to get bids from other third parties for wireless towers(WISP's). Otherwise they might get suck with satellite in the long run.

Yes I was told by Xplornet of the minimum speed B.S. too. The satellite option for rural users around here is the only option because we live in a part of Saskatchewan that has hills, unlike other parts of the prairies. Therefore we are stuck with Satellite, even though I can look out my window right now and see a wonderful Sasktel cell phone tower that could be dishing up Sasktel wireless service to rural customers too. Unfortunately Sasktel does not think there are enough customers for them to make the effort to try wireless instead relying on their wonderful crap service from Xplornet to bring "Higher Speed" internet to all rural Saskatchewan.

My Speed as of tonight.

Your connection is: 346 Kbps or 0.3 Mbps

You downloaded at: 42 kB/s

You are running: 6 times faster than 56K and can download 1 megabyte in 24.38 second(s)

Member Ident: CompID:1.90849586805E+13

Test Time:: 2010-03-28 01:37:48 GMT

Test Browser and OS info: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/532.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/4.1.249.1042 Safari/532.5

Test ID: 5ZS73KLTE (if this is a screenshot go to testmy.net to see if this is fake)

Diagnosis ^info^: May need help : running at only 39.72 % of your hosts average (barrettxplore.com)

This was tested from a 1013 kB file and took 23.964 seconds to complete

This is supposed to be the 1.5 Mbps package from Sasktel (xplornet) and is probably what we average most of the time except in the evenings when it gets worse than this.

:::.. Download Stats ..:::

Download Connection is:: 487 Kbps about 0.5 Mbps (tested with 3064 kB)

Download Speed is:: 59 kB/s

Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (Main)

Test Time:: 2010/01/12 - 9:18am

Bottom Line:: 8X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 17.36 sec

Tested from a 3064 kB file and took 51.542 seconds to complete

Download Diagnosis:: May need help : running at only 55.59 % of your hosts average (barrettxplore.com)

D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-L3XTNECAR

User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.17) Gecko/2009122116 Firefox/3.0.17 [!]