GL: Verizon Broadband situation in Canada

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Colonel;s  Lady is lying calmly in Confederation Basin in Kingston,  Ontario, 
Canada, having made the passage across the lake with no problems  in seven 
hours at 7.5 knots.  Our triplog reflected 47 statute miles,  but the charts all 
show 55 miles across.  Go figure!  We found out  that the lake settles down 
about three hours after the sun rises and we  made the mistake of starting with 
the sun rising and paid dearly for it for  three hours of short chop.  Locals 
know of this idiosyncrasy of the lake  and will talk about it if asked.
 
We did change our Verizon cell phone to the new plan which included  Canada.  
They do not have a comparable plan for Verizon  Broadband. Warning, if you 
use your broadband while in Canadian  waters, there will be a .02 cents per 
kilobyte surcharge for both uplink  and download of data.    We applied that rate 
to our  last months Verizon bill and realized that we would have had to pay an 
 additional $ 58 for uplink data and $ 756 for downloaded data.  We called  
Verizon and suspended our Broadband without billing  for six months,  or until 
we re activate it.  To replace it I selected the WiFi service at  many of the 
marinas and locks on our route across Canada.  I selected the  daily rate and 
will activate it two or three times a week as needed for e-mail,  weather, and 
net searching at $ 10 a day.  Details can be obtained at 
_www.iwavecanada.com_ (http://www.iwavecanada.com) .  I have found  out that this WiFi is about 
ten times faster than the Broadband I had become  used to.  Wow!!
 
Heading further west to the Trent-Severn Canal and locations beyond.   Not 
too bad for a sexagenarion and a septuagenarion is it??  Can it get any  better?



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