Recently I was working with a new customer whose Calgary business was looking for an E10 Fibre internet connection. Unfortunately, the install for Fibre was cost-prohibitive: we could deliver a Full Duplex Fibre service, but the $15,000 cost to bring Fibre into their building from the street exceeded their budget. Because of their location, they ...
Last month I wrote about how to test for and correct congestion on your local area network. Our next step in trying to determine where congestion might lie is to look outside your local network and use traceroute tools to find congestion points on the Internet. To do this we’ll use a few software tools which are ...
I’m about to start out on another one of my three part-blog posts. In the next couple months I will be looking at packet loss and Internet congestion but today we’ll start with the congestion that forms behind your internet connection – right there in your own network — and we’ll use an Internet Speed ...
Skyway West is now accepting orders for High Speed Cable Internet Services. Skyway cable internet services differ from Shaw cable internet services in many important ways. We add value to make cable an enterprise-grade service. Connection to a Multi-homed, Multi-Peered network Block of real Static IPs that will not change. You can also move to ...
Changing your voice communications infrastructure means thinking about things way beyond voice: network infrastructure, bandwidth, video conferencing, messaging and hardware to name a few. Over the years I’ve observed businesses often avoid big changes until events force their hand. An office move; expansion; new management; old gear that breaks a little too often to fix. ...
“It’s the economy, stupid” was a phrase Bill Clinton used during the 1992 Presidential Campaign. I often think of it when I hear all the requests we’re getting for more and more speed when companies are searching for business internet services. Most I.T. administrators and System Integrators, however, recognize that it’s not just about speed, ...
Last week the CRTC announced its long-awaited decision on the rates Telus and other large providers can charge for wholesale high speed ADSL services sold to independent ISPs like Skyway West. While we’re happy that the decision effectively rejected Bell’s request to charge independents based on GB usage, it also unfortunately has the effect of ...
A more reliable high speed Internet connection with increased bandwidth. With Skyway West’s T1 Xstream, you can combine connections from multiple network providers like Telus, Allstream and Shaw into a single service that is both faster and more reliable. Combine Skyway or Telus ADSL, Shaw cable and fixed wireless from different providers, and reduce the risk ...
The big, iconic brands I recall from my youth (before it had been misspent): Coke, Tide, Esso, GM, Ford and Chrysler. Coke’s easy to understand, Mom always used Tide, while Dad always filled his Buick with Esso gas. Most of you are too young to know how big a deal the “Big 3” automakers were. ...
Many of the network connections Skyway West provisions for customers are based on Telus ADSL. Like all network technologies, the ADSL link introduces latency into the network path. That latency is the result of a number of causes. The single largest cause of latency on Telus ADSL is the data interleave configuration on the DSLAM ...
