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In article <4aut6o$hhk@doctor.nl2k.edmonton.ab.ca>, doctor@nl2k.edmonton.AB.ca 
says...
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>Big deal, you guys are 14 to 15 hops off the main Canadian backbone.
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>Not good for a 'local' InterNet Service Provider.

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 change any time soon, not until government gets their fingers out of the 
works.