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by sselinger

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I am looking for a provider for high speed SatelliteInternet access in CANADA. The service must be available in Canada. I have a few clients that need this access ASAP. Any help would be greatly appricated.

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by popekyle

MSN HAS SATELLITE ACCESS FOR MILLIONS OF PEOPLE WORLD-WIDE,SO THE BEST PLACE FOR YOU TO CHECK OUT FOR A GOOD AND FAST HOOK-UP IS AS FOLLOWS;HTTP://ESSENTIALS.MSN.COM/ACCESS/SATELLITE.ASP THEY 24 HOUR TECH SUPPORT FOR ALL YOUR QUESTIONS AND NEEDS!I CAN NOT TAKE IT ANY FARTHER WITH OUT KNOWING THE EXACT PROVINCE IN CANADA! FELL FREE TO EMAIL ME WITH ANY OTHER QUESTIONS REGUARDING THIS MATTER AT; POPEKYLE@HOTMAIL.COM!
SINCERELY,
KYLE POPE

by russ werner

Although you didn't state in your question whether or not you wanted a 2-way satellite internet connection, I am assuming you do. First off I had a Starband Satellite from Dish Network for the last 2 months. I would not recoment it to anyone. In fact I had it removed and accepted my losses as far as the required authorized installer's fee. Starband is not ready for the general public. The off-line time was almost as much as the on-line time. When it was on-line the download speeds varied from over 1 meg connection rate with over 100k/sec downloads to 100 K connection rate with not much better than a dial-up download. The upload connection rate was never more tham 15K with uploads around 7K/sec. This is a far cry from the advertized 500K down and 150K up. In adition to the varying speeds there is a latency issue they forget to talk about. I have waited 3 minutes for a web page such as the Tech Republic to appear on my screen, and when it did all the page frames did not appear. With this satellite you get used to the IE message "Page can not be displayed"!!!
The technical support people don't know much more than to tell you the system is down for an upgrade or to tell you to reboot your computer and your receiver and see if it works. I have talked to a cyberstar satellite represenative and he said the Directtv satellite is much better and is availabe now. I have ads from www.tigerdirect.com that show the price about the same as the Starband system. You can read about the Directtv satellite venture at the following url. Doesn't say much, but with AOL involved there will be no problem with financial funding, but it is all that I could find. Directtv is brand new. http://www.directv.com/press/pressdel/0,1112,198,00.html
Good luck with a satellite, and I believe it is the way of the future, but before it's time right now.

by popekyle

HELLO, IT"S ME AGAIN! AFTER SEARCHING FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE SATELLITE ACCESS IN CANADA, THE BEST I COULD COME UP WITH IS AS FOLLOWS;{http://www.cbsc.org/alberta}ALSO YOU CAN CONTACT A PERSON BY THE NAME OF (PAUL PIERLOT) AT pierlot.paul@ic.gc.ca/ AND ANOTHER SITE THAT IS SURE TO HELP ONE WAY OR ANOTHER IS {http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/networks} I HOPE THIS WILL HELP WHILE I SEARCH MORE IN-DEPTH ABOUT THIS MATTER! YOU HAVE GOTTEN ME INTERESTED IN THIS,SO I AM GOING TO CONTINUE WITH OR WITHOUT THE POINTS YOU HAVE OFFERED!

by popekyle

HEY,JUST ANOTHER SHORT NOTE!THE INFORMATION THAT I HAD GOTTEN WAS BASED ON A 1997 SURVEY OF CANADA AND AT THAT TIME THERE WAS OVER 150 ISP'S IN CANADA!BUT BY NOW THERE SHOULD BE TRIPPLE THAT AMOUNT,AND THE SATELLITE ACCESS,THOU NEW,SHOULD BE PROVIDED AT THIS TIME! CANADA IS COMMITED TO ADVANCING THE COMMUNICATIONS OF THE COUNTRY FOR ALL WHO RESIDE THERE!SO, GOOD LUCK & GOOD HUNTING!

by yucavt

check this site, tachyon.net, this company offer the service, but i actually asking if somebody now something about the company

by sselinger

Tachyon does not provide a service in Canada. I still have not found a provider of high speed satellite in Canada. Any help is appreciated.

by carrie.berry

Rumour has it that Star Choice will be the first to implement receive and send options but I haven't heard of a launch date...would like to know that myself.

by tholte

Bell Express View offers satellite internet access. However it is only on downloads and you need an phone connection for uploading. The down loading is faster then cable.

by cdeclercq

TELESAT is the place you need! www.telesat.ca (more below) Unfortunately it is very expensive! A 64K upload/download solution is about $4000/month. The 64k is very compressed and is capable of decent speeds for up to about 5 people. We have a good WAN access using VPN over satelite and though not what you expect in urban areas, it is high tech for here!

THE BEST Method is telesat, though the setup can run $25,000 in equipment. I work at the north pole and our 64K frame-relay over satelite is not fast, but it is a pleasure to have vs. a 4800 baud phone connection that can only be maintained for minutes at a time. All phone companies have solutions like this, they are just not utilized all the time due to the cost. There are two things to consider. Dedicated or shared. If you want dedicated bandwith, then you pay 24X7 and this is ussually not to useful for most people if you run a small system. Shared on the other hand is. Using a digital switch, the bandwidth being used in low periods is reduced, and in high times increased. We could have shared ours by tapping into some of the 250 unused phone lines at our site.
Bell Express VU provides only 1 Way satelite transfers, you still require a land line for outgoing packets. It is a very cheap cost effective solution that works where you can achieve at least 28,800 bps on the phone line. You can get about 500kps of download on the satelite. Bell uses Direct TV. You can only use this on one machine, but if it is a proxy server, then you can rollout the connection to everyone easily. Bell does not support networks, so don't tell them.

by cdeclercq

Don't forget, ADSL is out over the whole province of Alberta in the next two years, so any satelite system will be obsolete in short time, so don't invest big bucks today, cause ADSL is the way to go tomorrow. The Provincial goverment is paying forthe infrastructure for everyone in the province. If you have to, have the Fiber run from your site, to the nearest phone switching station, you will have internet in no time!

by eansor

You already have quite a few replies to this question, but I think you might like to also check out the Israeli VSAT system. You can find them at www.gilat.com/gilat

This from their page:

"Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. (NASDAQ: GILTF), with its global subsidiaries Spacenet Inc., Gilat Florida/Latin America and Gilat Europe, is a leading provider of telecommunications solutions based on VSAT satellite network technology. With product development and service operation under one roof, Gilatprovides an "instant infrastructure" that is ubiquitous, reliable and easy to deploy.

The Company delivers satellite-based, end-to-end enterprise networking and rural telephony solutions to customers across six continents, and markets interactivebroadband data services. Gilat is a joint venture partner, with Microsoft Corp., EchoStar Communications Corp. and ING Furman Selz Investments, in StarBand Communications Inc., the world's first consumer, nationwide, always-on, two-way, high-speed satellite broadband Internet service provider."

Hope it helps!

Gary

by pbgerrard

Try Microsoft Network. I am not sure i it is tue, but I have heard they offer satellite internet access worldwide. Also unlike the small providers, you can get almost certainly get technical support if you need it for free so long as you subscribeto MSN.

by jfunke

Vancouver Teleport provides nation wide bi-directional satellite Internet service. They are a big Cisco partner and have some big names for customers. I know the the Manitoba Goverment is using them for some VPN and VOIP solutions in remote areas ofNorthern Manitoba.

http://www.telesat.ca/network/net2.html

by gbjoe

Hi sselinger,

My name is Guy Bigras and I work for Telesat Canada. I'm answering you quickly here so I don't have prices and all that much info.

What I suggest is to look at other means before going with satellite Internet access. Satellite equipment and space segment is very expensive. The cheaper satellite sollutions are usually one-way only. That is the internet requests are made using land lines and the downloads or the incoming traffic is over satellite.

If you absolutely needtwo way satellite access, that is outgoing and incoming traffic is over satellite then we can help you. We've setup already alot of remote communities with numerous services including telephone (yes, some northern villages have no phones), Internetand television.

If you need more info please call me at 613.748.8700 ext. 2503 and I will put you in touch with the right people (I know we have a teleport in Alberta so you might be able to talk to our contacts over there)

thanks and good luck

by ridire

Globalstar introduces Internet access on satellite network

The
Globalstar 48 low-earth-orbit (LEO) satellite constellation and land-based
gateways are designed to provide service to more than 85 percent of the
world's populated areas. Currently, there are 24 gateways in operation around
the globe including the High River, Alberta gateway, which covers Western
Canada and the Northwestern United States and the Smith Falls, Ontario
gateway, which covers Eastern Canada and the NortheasternUnited States.
For more information, visit Globalstar's web site at www.globalstar.com.

--Paul

by howied

Hi,

You could use the Inmarsat GAN system, this is a pay as you go system, that will give you a duplex 64Kbps circuit to any ISDN end point you choose to dial. You can then subscribe to a routed ISDN service at an ISP and you're in business. MostInmarsat Land Earth Stations (LES) also provide Internet access although usually only with POP3 mail not full SMTP feeds.

Cheers,

howie

by peter ritchie

Bell expressvu is currently offering "high-speed" internet access with their system.

The access is through the DirecPC system (includes DirecPC card and software).

More information can be found at http://www.expressvu.ca.

The draw-back is that it's currently one-way and you need phone/ISDN dial-up for the upload. But, DirectPC as recently (in the past year) announced two-way communications in the States.

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