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I am on satelite starter package, not happy with speed.Does anyone know of a different provider in Canada? I am just about ready to go back to dial up!
Bill   

With Xplornet(Telesat provides the service).

The Anik F2 is full or almost full on some of the beams.

The Anik F3 has two spot beams and is using them already).

 Hughesnet Spaceway3(Ka band) is providing some new capacity in the southern reaches of Canada(but is still being tweaked to work reliably for residential users).

Hughesnet KU band satellites are mostly full.

Nimiq4, which is for Bell satellite TV, may be running by early next year without major delays(has 8 KA band spot beams on it for Telesat, for use in Canada).

http://www.netkaster.com/
As the northern re-seller of Telesats satellite Internet.

And Telesats Fair Access Policy(FAP), is on all re-sellers. The below is from NetKaster. And you won't see Xplornet's version any where near this....

Benefits and Privileges. This Acceptable Use and Fair Access Policy (the “Policy”) governs the use of Telesat Canada’s (“Telesat”) satellite provided Ka-band high-speed internet service (the “Service”).

11. Excessive Consumption. In order to ensure fair access to the Service by all users, and to protect the integrity of the Service, Telesat shall be entitled to take steps to prevent improper or excessive consumption of Service bandwidth by users of the Service. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, Telesat reserves the right: (1) to limit throughput rates of certain bandwidth-intensive activities such as, but not limited to, audio and video streaming, and automatic file exchange applications; (2) to discontinue the provision of the Service via specific ports or communication protocols; and/or (3) increase or decrease the relative priority of any or all traffic flows.


And satellite internet providers do not want you to do anything more than basic web page surfing and email. So don't pay much attention to the advertising of 'fast' or 'High speed' internet, or 'discover the online world'.

And then call your local government representative to get the government grant moneys, to get hard wired internet in your area. But they won't care anyways......

Heres a link to various information links on my blog.
http://xplornetsucks.blogspot.com/2008/06/review-links.html
Some government complaint agency's and cellular internet links. Hopefully you are still in the one month guarantee period if there is something better in your area, that is not satellite.