How does wireless broadband Internet compare with Internet delivered over dial-up, cable-modem, ADSL, air card and satellite?
Dial-up (the service available to most rural Albertans) is the lowest cost service and also the slowest service with speeds rarely exceeding 56 Kbps. Cable and ADSL are typically available in most urban centers; they have a limited range and are typically not available outside of towns and cities. Both cable and ADSL provide streaming speeds ranging from 512 Kbps to 10Mbps that require hard line in the ground. In some cases there are long wait times for hard line installation in newer urban sub-divisions in smaller centers. Satellite and air card services also range from 512 Kbps to 3Mbps of burstable, not streaming, speed and can have costly per-month charges and most have limits on service. Generally speaking the challenge with satellite services is that they are reasonably fast in the downstream direction, but as slow as (or not much faster than) dial up in the upstream direction. Air card services use cellular towers and can be subject to additional fees if package limits are excee
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