A message from the District of Muskoka
Broadband access has been identified as a key priority for both residents and businesses by the District and the Muskoka Economic Recovery Task Force (MERTF). Several federal and or provincial funding programs are anticipated, including the one recently announced by the federal government.
To help position Muskoka to take best advantage of these broadband funding programs, MERTF is working with partners to identify needs through speed testing and gap analysis. To help with that work, the Task Force is encouraging all residents and business owners in Muskoka to test the speeds of their current internet service using a tool available at engagemuskoka.ca/broadband
“The District recognizes that access to broadband is an essential service for our area as it enables local communities to develop, attract, retain and expand job creating businesses,” said District Chair John Klinck. “We also must ensure that all Muskoka families have access to high-quality, affordable internet service to meet their children’s online learning and training needs.”
“Speed testing is an important data point to help planners understand and profile the District’s broadband capability,” said David Sword, MERTF Lead. “Speed test data can also help further any future applications for broadband funding assistance from the Federal and Provincial Governments.”
Residents and businesses can use the test tool to measure actual internet speed at their properties (the speed to both upload and download data) and are encouraged to take several speed tests to capture the variation in speed associated with different times of day.
For more information about the internet speed testing and broadband gap analysis work underway, please visit engagemuskoka.ca/broadband and sign up for updates.
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David, how are you streaming Netflix at that speed?
We recently went from 3-4 mbps download (1 mbps upload) to 12-17 mbps download (1 mbps upload) and can only just stream provided no other device in the house is accessing the internet. When our internet is functional, the speed is great now, but the signal is low so it drops out service regularly.
When the vast majority of internet users are seasonal and not able to do a speed test in the winter, this is a very silly time to do the survey.
I can see from the above comments why people are complaining.
I am 6km outside Huntsville and use Cogeco cable.
I receive download 62 Mbps and upload 10Mbps.
Guess I can’t complain.
Biggest problem here is the hydro.
Hydro goes and sometime its 24 hours befors any cable is restored.
Maybe if they were allowed to charge ripoff prices the service would suddenly get better?
Time will tell!
This is after stopping and starting the modem. So we are getting 0.68 Mbps download and 0.22 Mbps as upload, with latency of 58 ms. That’s Bell “high speed” Internet on Harp lake. Barely enough to watch Netflix for example. Pathetic really.
There are 134 users along our 2 miles of road.
I am 7mg down and 1mg up..and have no internet on an average of once every two weeks because of break downs. We need better service!
I sincerely hope that the study will take into account those who do not report speed even though they would like to simply because they DONOT HAVE ANY INTERNET TO TEST!!!!