Telus hub
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Mike270412
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It's just like any other "rural internet " ;it sucks. Ours was awesome when we first got it and Telus claimed they weren't going to over sell it. But. Guess what. They lied . They only time we get decent service is mid day during the week and probably in the middle of the night.
Mike270412
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Results probably vary depending on location but out where I live it sucks.
pfi572
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Yep ? Sign up and service is great for about a month .
Then they cut you back and feed you full of excuses .
All are the same crap. IMO
Then they cut you back and feed you full of excuses .
All are the same crap. IMO
eclipse1966
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I got one for the lake spot (Shuswap) and was great April - June then when the tourists came it went for crap. I called Telus and they admitted there was an issue and said it will be fixed in time for next summer as the tower was not designed to run the capacity it was doing. Time will tell. Otherwise, I use it for back up at our rural home in Armstrong and works good when I need it.
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skegpro
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If you have a Telus cell phone it will be the same as the LTE you get with the phone.
Do a speed test and see for yourself.
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When we had wireless ? Not a chance of watching Netflix.
eclipse1966
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I found if speed is min 2-3 mbps you can watch Netflix with some streaming taking place but ideally you need min 5.
For me it sucks just a little less than the explorenet I had.
Net flicks or you tube is day by day. If the hub is in a good mood it will stream, if it’s not in a good mood it won’t even load.
I recently added a cell booster to try and help. Signal strength increased from not measurable (below -124 dbls) to very strong (-71 dbls). Quality of internet had no improvement.
Probably shatter now. Cell phones were not useable in my basement. Phones would switch to wifi calling to make any calls. Now with the booster the internet service can not even handle a wifi call. But now I do have cell service in my basement.
DRD
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^^^ /what Tchetek. Sucks just a bit less than xplornet.
I put in a booster a week ago. Been doing speed tests like crazy, with it on, and off,
Check cell service vs smart hub, vs wifi router plugged into hub.
Speeds are all slow. 3 tests on the same system back to back to back.
Range from 1mb-10mb. Right after each other. Don’t think the test proves too much, if it is intermittent it is gonna suck.
Today was the first I have seen double didgets, but I still have had to turn off my wifi assist feature to actually have a cell call.
Cdnfireman
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I have one at my farm....typically non peak times, 15meg down, 2-3 up.....peak times 2-4 down, 1 up.....definitely loads up and slows down during peak times like most other places not hooked directly to fibre....
tex78
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We got one 1.5 years now, Mabe it's been a year
Works great, can have 2 Netflix going and surf without any buffer
This is speed test at 6:00 pm
And only 1 bar cell lte I noted too
Works great, can have 2 Netflix going and surf without any buffer
This is speed test at 6:00 pm
And only 1 bar cell lte I noted too
skid
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We also have the Telus hub and it's 10x better then explornet, but the amount of people on it probably isn't a lot so it works great and we can watch all the Netflix we want with no buffering
DaveB
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We've been on CCI Wireless in rural Red Deer for 5 years and it's been pretty good. Streaming is no problem. Unlimited data. Looks like there should be coverage in Leduc area.
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