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Mkay, a rundown of the situation:
My parents built 'The Chalet' as a temporary living space until the big house was fully built. It had internet, landline, one modem and a wireless router. Once the big house was finished, my parents and brothers moved into it and I got The Chalet. Telus (our internet and... I think phone provider) came over and rerouted the internet to the big house, setting up the wireless router for my laptop in The Chalet.
The problem:
The internet has to travel sooooo far that it's pretty much Dial-Up at it's worse and constantly fading at best (or not even connected). The area that I get the best signal in is constantly changing so I can't set up my Laptop somewhere and leave it.
1. I run Vista on my main laptop and it doesn't like my wireless signal. However, I have fiddled with it enough that I'm positive what I am getting now is the best I can get. Even when I plug in my XP netbook the signal isn't that good (despite being better than Vista).
2. The wireless router is oooooold. But, at this point I don't think upgrading would make much of a difference.
For temporary fixes I'm going to get my parents to try and get a directional antennae for it and maaaybe try my hand at a cantennae (which will probably fail knowing my utter lack of building skillz)
So, in short, I've began looking for a naked DSL service and I was hoping people here could help out. I have no desire for VoIP, by the way. Oh, right, and I live in British Columbia, Canada. And I also need a service that is on all the time as I work until midnight and am usually online until 4am or so.
My internet usage is... I suppose over average. I browse sites like Fanfiction.net, forums, e-mail, and Google (I use google a LOT) often. My current internet is unsuited to video/streaming but when I did have reliable internet I watched a lot of videos online. My p2p torrenting is occasional and usually not anything overly large (mostly fandubs of Japanese Anime). Direct downloading (rapidshare etc.) is usually more. Sorry I don't know the exact amount but with three computers on our network I can't tell. Uploading is pretty nonexistent with the occasional exception...
The one I've been interested in the most is lightspeed as they seem to have good rates and a 200GB cap seems like a lot. Most of the jargon is lost on me, however... Like 'dry DSL' or what 6000/1000 speed means.
Ah, long and probably boring post. Well, can anyone help me? I'm kinda confused...
My parents built 'The Chalet' as a temporary living space until the big house was fully built. It had internet, landline, one modem and a wireless router. Once the big house was finished, my parents and brothers moved into it and I got The Chalet. Telus (our internet and... I think phone provider) came over and rerouted the internet to the big house, setting up the wireless router for my laptop in The Chalet.
The problem:
The internet has to travel sooooo far that it's pretty much Dial-Up at it's worse and constantly fading at best (or not even connected). The area that I get the best signal in is constantly changing so I can't set up my Laptop somewhere and leave it.
1. I run Vista on my main laptop and it doesn't like my wireless signal. However, I have fiddled with it enough that I'm positive what I am getting now is the best I can get. Even when I plug in my XP netbook the signal isn't that good (despite being better than Vista).
2. The wireless router is oooooold. But, at this point I don't think upgrading would make much of a difference.
For temporary fixes I'm going to get my parents to try and get a directional antennae for it and maaaybe try my hand at a cantennae (which will probably fail knowing my utter lack of building skillz)
So, in short, I've began looking for a naked DSL service and I was hoping people here could help out. I have no desire for VoIP, by the way. Oh, right, and I live in British Columbia, Canada. And I also need a service that is on all the time as I work until midnight and am usually online until 4am or so.
My internet usage is... I suppose over average. I browse sites like Fanfiction.net, forums, e-mail, and Google (I use google a LOT) often. My current internet is unsuited to video/streaming but when I did have reliable internet I watched a lot of videos online. My p2p torrenting is occasional and usually not anything overly large (mostly fandubs of Japanese Anime). Direct downloading (rapidshare etc.) is usually more. Sorry I don't know the exact amount but with three computers on our network I can't tell. Uploading is pretty nonexistent with the occasional exception...
The one I've been interested in the most is lightspeed as they seem to have good rates and a 200GB cap seems like a lot. Most of the jargon is lost on me, however... Like 'dry DSL' or what 6000/1000 speed means.
Ah, long and probably boring post. Well, can anyone help me? I'm kinda confused...