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:Anyone who knows about the Internet in North America knows that CANET 
:(what you refer to as the Candian Backbone) is nearly irrelavant. It is 
:slow and so expensive that no ISP that wants to make money would use it. 
:The only place where CANEt gets used is places like Edmonton that are 
:Small Internet Markets. A large like market Calgary (3 times the size of 
:Edmonton in terms of paid accounts the only real yard stick) uses 
:American Backbones such as ANS, SPRINTNET, MCI, and UUNET almost 
:exclusively. ANSnet that AGt uses is known for

:provding one of the fastest Backbones in the US. Being 14 ot 15 hops of the
:Canadian Backbone and on the US backbone is major advantage. Only 
:someone who wants a slow connection would use an ISP on the Canadian 
:Backbone. Don't expect this cange any time soon, not until government 
:gets their fingers out of the works.

  I think you're confusing your facts just a little bit.  The inherent
  problem with internet connection in Calgary is that they are all routed
  through a slow 10MB/s (or was it only 1MB/s) line to Edmonton.  Edmonton 
  however, is located on a much higher bandwidth line of CANET.  This is 
  the reason that Calgary providers are hooking up with the US backbones.

  My computer is on a 10Mb/s ethernet hooked via fibre optics to the
  main ARNET (now renamed with a new owner) routers at the U of A.  The
  transfer rates I get to local servers are usually in the order of 200kB/s.
  My transfer rates to large US and even UK servers often reach the same
  speeds, From this I can conclude that CANET is no slower then the
  backbones to which any of those other large sites are connected.  

  Sure CANET does not have the bandwidth of the major american networks, 
  but it does have enough bandwidth to support the current usage.

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Steve

Around the LAN, through the proxy, down the fibre, off the router,
  -- Nothin' but Net ....