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http://xplornetsucks.blogspot.com/

This is the link to my speed test and the general complaints which is apparently growing..
 

Link saves taking up message board space for a long subject...

Back on February 5th, I had a call from a supervisor at Xplornet telling me that they were upgrading the equipment at the tower that services my area and it would be about four weeks before all the tests would be complete and fully operational. I know we have four more days to go, and I thought I would do another test. Here are the pitiful results...

::::::::::.. testmy.net test results ..::::::::::
Download Connection is:: 323 Kbps about 0.32 Mbps (tested with 386 kB)
Download Speed is:: 39 kB/s
Upload Connection is:: 403 Kbps about 0.4 Mbps (tested with 748 kB)
Upload Speed is:: 49 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net (Server 1)
Test Time:: 2007/03/01 - 10:29am
D-Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-8CS5WX36Q
U-Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-WTALHJQVY
User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070219 Firefox/2.0.0.2

Just adding another speed test..I am even having problems just loading this forum with the choppy speeds this evening.
9:22 pacific time

::::::::::.. Download Stats ..::::::::::
Download Connection is:: 152 Kbps about 0.2 Mbps (tested with 386 kB)
Download Speed is:: 19 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net/ (Server 1)
Test Time:: 2007/03/07 - 10:20pm
Bottom Line:: 3X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 53.89 sec
Tested from a 386 kB file and took 20.797 seconds to complete
Download Diagnosis:: May need help : running at only 14.64 % of your hosts average (barrettxplore.com)
D-Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-FQZ1UV78S

March 22-007
This is my speed test as of today and its one of of the better one i had lately, Im presently on 3Mbps and its very sad when you have an average between 230Kbps and 430Kbps and on a really good day 640Kbps and that is maybe ounce or twice a month, during peek hours connections kicks out, no connection expecially on weekends and peek time when there are more people on, must be someone to complain too and if anyone knoews would be much appreciated if you could let me know, talk to xplornet 150 times since before christmas, and even thoe they have nice staff it just doesn't go know where. same old story all the time.Would love to know how the guy from McGregor got 2.4GHz tower on 3mb package. but what i see is that they just don't have enough bandwidth  and when logged in too Canopy i can see the settings are set to 700Kbps Sustained Downlink Data Rate
        700 (Kbps)  And Downlink Burst Allocation
        30000 (kbits) Somehow this does not make sence to me but if someone can explain,

Speed Test
::.. Download Stats ..:::
Download Connection is:: 244 Kbps about 0.2 Mbps (tested with 386 kB)
Download Speed is:: 30 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net/ (Server 2)
Test Time:: 2007/03/22 - 7:28pm
Bottom Line:: 4X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 34.13 sec
Tested from a 386 kB file and took 12.968 seconds to complete
Download Diagnosis:: May need help : running at only 56.88 % of your hosts average (134.73)
D-Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-P38JX72K6
User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3 [/size]

Xplornet sure is looking to screw themselves over..If they don't have the bandwidth then stop selling new connections. Its that simple...Contact your local provincial government agency To get them to legislate minimum bandwidth for wireless/satellite providers..It's not regulation of the internet., It's having a useable speed..
Why pay for high speed internet when all you have is sluggish internet syndrome.

I've also gotten rid of the Xplornet KA band satellite service..Not worth the hassles..
You just don't know how stable dialup is until you try wireless/satellite providers.