6 weeks ago, I decided to try the Rogers High Speed Wireless product. Despite the fact that their coverage map shows that I am in an unserviced area, it seemed that I might be close enough to give it a try.
The first couple of weeks were erratic. Sometimes I had a really good connection, sometimes a poor one and sometimes none. The solution was to go back on the roof and move my directional antenna 90 degrees from the current direction of either East or South. It would work fine for a while and then fade again.
I was advised by others to be patient, that there seems to be a settling in that the technology requires. It has now been three weeks since I lumbered up the tower to the roof. The service advertises 1.5 megs down and 256 K up. It is delivering pretty much as advertised. Burst downloads will approach 3 megs and multiple downloads will aggregate at well over 1.5 megs. Rogers AUP allows 30 G of transfer per month (combined up and down) - and I am using an average of 4 G a week.
The only change that I can determine that has occurred to make the service more reliable is that the various speedtesting sites I use are indicating that I am in Vancouver rather than PEI. When service was erratic, the sites ‘knew’ I was in PEI and once the service settled down they ‘think’ I am in Vancouver.