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Just wondering what everyone uses for internet in the rural or country. Pros and cons. Does anyone have the RFnow fibre optic internet? How do they like it and does it have decent download and upload speeds.  
Has anyone had any luck with Explorenet for internet speed? Any info is appreciated.  
thanks

well we have netset/xplorenet and since the take over June 1 we have had the worst internet we have ever had. i called tonight because we had a very weak signal and the wait time was going to be almost 2 hours to talk to someone. we are lucky to get 12 - 15 mbps out of 25 . i ran a speed test after unplugging and rebooting the router and modem and get 8.77 mbps

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For the last 2 days we were getting disconnected and getting speeds of under 1 MBPS, continiously have to unplug the system and reboot it they say up to 25 but good luck with that.

R.M of Yellowhead has their own internet - high speed, great service, inexpensive

Family members have the RFNow fibre optic and they love it. Over 100 up and 100 down. Much better than there other service

I have to agree with the other Netset/Xplornet customers on here. Since June 1, service has been terrible with slow internet speeds, having to reboot, and ridiculous wait times for tech support.  
 
We've been Netset customers since they first came to the area, and had always been happy with them. I don't know what Xplornet did to screw things up, but since their takeover I wouldn't recommend their service to anyone.

A wired fiber connection will always beat wireless internet. Fiber is the latest and greatest tech I would recommend the rf fibre I tried it at a buddies house and it is leagues ahead of xplornet.

RFnow is vastly superior to Xplornet. They’re not even in the same league. It’s like comparing a Ferrari to a donkey cart.  
 
I had the displeasure of experiencing xplornet for a couple months while waiting on RFnow to get municipality’s permits to lay cable in my area and, let me tell you, having no internet would have probably been better because I wouldn’t have had to be constantly aggravated by that joke of a service... and my house is literally a half mile direct line of sight to a tower.  
 
The problem with xplornet isn’t that it’s not capable of the speeds they claim, it’s that it’s so inconsistent and dependant on traffic on the tower. Having a 25mbps connection is worthless if it fluctuates between 25 and 2 fifteen times an hour. It’s absolutely maddening. The support is useless. The techs seem like they don’t really know what they’re doing. I suspect that If it weren’t for the fact that many rural customers have no other options, they’d be going out of business quickly. I honestly hope RF ensures that.  
 
Now that I’ve had RFnow for about a week I am very happy with the service. Consistently getting 100mbps up and Down give or take 10 mbps in either direction. Last night while downloading a 12gig patch it was running on average 110 mbps download. I can live with that.  
 
The install tech was very helpful and told me to text him speed test results personally if I ever wasn’t getting speed and he’d tweak it remotely. That’s much better than being told ‘too bad, nothing I can do, the tower is overloaded’.  
 
There’s an installation cost with RF now, and depending on what you have for wifi equipment you might need to upgrade that as well but it’s well worth it if you actually use the internet for anything more than looking up the weather.

Totally agree. Although we had some issues with INetlink/ Netset over a 13 year period, we were always able to speak to someone reasonably quickly.

"good" rural internet - it all sucks. We have been with Inet, xPlornet etc. & now with Rogers; they're all aggravatingly bad. I keep hearing these politicians warble on about how they're going to improve internet speed, coverage etc. for rural areas but nothing gets done. I'll be pushing up daisies before decent Internet gets to rural Manitoba! The worst thing about Rogers is that they don't give customers unlimited internet & it is such a pain to have to keep an eye on usage.

those with fiber, what was your install total cost? cant seem to get answers

What did it cost you to get RFNow???

Would like someone who is praising RFNow to tell us what it costs???

We were quoted $700 install with RFNow fibre plus $130 a month for the service. And we live in the town of virden. I can only imagine how much it costs to install rurally with those outrageous prices.

Its 700 to install and 130 per month

It cost us the same out in camp Hughs area between Brandon and carberry.