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rwbradley
Sep 07, 2014Explorer
Davydd wrote:
Since the subject is campground wifi and not 4G cellular it was my experience in Canada that wifi in campgrounds was vastly inferior to the already bad wifi offered in the United States for the most part. Drive the Alaska Highway and tell me different.
I guess I was not describing my slightly off topic point very well:
- I believe in Canada, the crappy WIFI in campgrounds is more often due not to lack of available capacity, but by choice. Whereas in the US I believe crappy WIFI in campgrounds is due to unavailable infrastructure to provide higher speeds.
- If you take a look at a cell coverage map of Canada you will get a fairly good idea of where high speed internet is available, the map will be similar to the cell coverage map. That map does show the lower portion of the country as being mostly covered, where as the arctic has little to no cell/high speed internet.
- BC actually has the worst coverage in Canada due to the Rockie Mountains
In your example, you travelled thru the worst covered province BC (by area), followed by one of the Territories which would have almost no coverage, and would rely almost exclusively on Satellite links for all its telecom connectivity.
Not to pick a fight ie "my country is better than yours". We both have our issues. I have just found that in my travels, Canada seems to have coverage nearly everywhere I go where as in the US I cannot seem get decent internet or cell service unless I am on an Interstate or in a big city. It is just disappointing that in the world we live in with all the high tech equipment many of us carry in our trailers, in many places on the most technologically advanced continent on earth, there are so many places were we can buy the newest tech we cannot do simple things like check our email. And when we find somewhere to check, it is so slow because everyone else like me is trying to get their tech fix
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