Installation / Setup
For all areas: $300.00
Site assessments are $50.00
If installation occurs the same day then the site assessment fee will be waved. However, most of our towers have a red light on them. So if you can see the light within 300 feet of your building, then you can get our service!Included in the Installation:
- Mounting a small antenna on the outside of your house/building
- Cabling to your computer or router (after the first 100ft, $0.40/foot)
- All connectors and connections
- User instruction on how to use the service
- Setup of any initial email addresses from Columbia Wireless
Warp 1.5 $50.00
- 1500 Kbps (1.5 mbps) download
- 1000 Kbps (1 mbps) upload
- Unlimited columbiawireless.ca email accounts
- 20GB monthly traffic limit
- Unlimited hours of connection time
- High priority tech support
Warp 2.0 $55.00
- Clients within Nelson city limits get this package for $50.00
- 2000 Kbps (2 mbps) download
- 1000 Kbps (1 mbps) upload
- Unlimited columbiawireless.ca email accounts
- 30GB monthly traffic limit
- Unlimited hours of connection time
- High priority tech support
Warp 2.5 $65.00
- 2500 Kbps (2.5 mbps) download
- 2000 Kbps (2 mbps) upload
- Unlimited columbiawireless.ca email accounts
- 60GB monthly traffic limit
- Unlimited hours of connection time
- High priority tech support
Warp 3.0 $75.00
- 3000 Kbps (3 mbps) download
- 2000 Kbps (2 mbps) upload
- Unlimited columbiawireless.ca email accounts
- 90GB monthly traffic limit
- Unlimited hours of connection time
- High priority tech support
Upgraded Feb 2012! -Warp 5.0 $125.00
- 5000 Kbps (5 mbps) download
- 2000 Kbps (2 mbps) upload
- Unlimited columbiawireless.ca email accounts
- 120GB monthly traffic limit
- Unlimited hours of connection time
- High priority tech support
Email, Web, Domain Hosting $10.00
- 40GB monthly connection traffic to your website
- Hosted on extremely secure servers
- 100 email accounts
- Highest priority tech support
New - Inter Office Connections
- Please contact our sales office for more details: 250-505-4041
- OR: sales@columbiawireless.ca
Online Columbia Wireless forms and agreements:
Service Agreement
Pre-Authorized Payment Form
Monthly traffic limits explained:
Monthly traffic limits are in place because if clients use too much service, it is a form of abuse to our network. We pay a substantial amount of money to keep our infrastructure upgraded to handle the high demand of Internet use, but when clients use over their package limits it can cause slow downs to people in their surrounding area that are serviced from the same tower.
A few of the main causes for overages, and tips to help keep your account under its limit:
- 1.) Your wireless router has no password security on it and therefore your neighbours could be using your Internet connection without you knowing and therefore could be causing overages to be charged on your account.
- To resolve this, you should contact your routers manufacturer or a local techie to help you put a password on your wireless router's signal so that all computers connected to your service need a password to connect. ** Remember that sharing your Internet connection with your neighbour is in direct violation to your service agreement with us, and if you are found to be knowingly hosting a shared connection between neighbours, your service could be terminated with Columbia Wireless.
- To resolve this you need to open your file sharing program and look for a menu like "tools" and find a menu item which allows you to set your upload speed rate to 0 Kbps or the lowest it will allow you to set it. This will stop the program from using all of your bandwidth without you knowing it and which will save you tons of Internet traffic.
- To resolve this issue, please keep your virus scanner up to date. Also make sure your virus scanner is routinely performing a scan on your computer system. If you notice that your computer is slower to react than normal, you may also need to have a local techie clean up your computer so that you can experience the most out of your Internet connection.
2.) P2P file sharing programs such as: Bittorrent, Limewire, Bearshare, Kazaa - etc use all of your packages upload bandwidth 100% of the time when they sit open in the background or when in use while downloading a file without you knowing.
3.) Viruses can try to leak out of your computer by sending and receiving high amounts of data to the Internet.
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* Listed prices do not include HST.
** Prices are in Canadian Dollars.
*** Installation charges reflect typical installation only, additional charges may apply
dependent on site circumstances or locations requiring the use of extra equipment.