Last Updated: 10 April 2024
Compare home internet providers & home internet plans in Canada. Find out which internet ISPs offers the best and cheapest internet in Canada. We offer a brief review of most of the larger internet carriers in Canada, plus comparative information on our own home internet plan offerings in Canada. WRS Web Solutions Inc. is one of the best home internet providers in Canada that offers fast and cheap unlimited home internet plans in most cities and urban areas in Canada. No term contracts.
Good internet speeds. We want to be your home internet provider. We can service all homes which can be reached over coax cable TV lines for Rogers internet plans, Rogers internet packages, Shaw internet plans, Cogeco internet plans, Videotron internet plans. (We also offer a home internet plan over Eastlink cable TV lines in Ontario and The Atlantic provinces.) If your local cable company has already told you that their lines cannot reach your home, sorry, but we will not be able to service your address for cable internet plans either, as we use their lines. Below on this page, we have tried to offer you multiple methods, to allow you to look up home internet plan availability from providers of internet:
Below, grouped by province, are some of the cities and larger towns in Canada that we service for unlimited home internet plans. (For each province you can see a much longer list of place names by clicking on the province name.) Clicking on a place name will take you to that place name page, which will show you the home internet plans we offer in that place. We hope you find the below useful.
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The second method is immediately below (followed by other methods). These are the networks that we use to deliver our unlimited home internet plans over. Please click on one of the buttons below for instant info (use only if your address has, or had, or you know for sure that it is able to have):
Our home internet plans do not include cable TV channels (we do not offer TV channels), but our cable internet plans do include the use of the actual cable TV line that each cable internet plan is delivered over (as we pay the cable company for the use of that line). We do not require term contracts, and we do not have termination fees. We use cable company installers, (and we pay the cable company for that work). In terms of small business internet plans, we do our best to allow small businesses to order our home internet plans, (subject to some limitations imposed upon us by the cable TV companies). WRS Web Solutions Inc. has been in business since 2010 and we are regulated by the CRTC. We are one of the few remaining independent internet service providers, (not owned by the cable or phone companies). We are Canadian owned, and Veteran owned.
The home internet plans we offer vary by the cable TV network we use to deliver them, (as our wholesale costs and agreements vary by network). This means that the plans offered may vary by province and place name, which is why we have a separate page for each province on our website. Each province page then has links to separate place name pages, so you can more easily see which home internet plans we offer in the place that you live in. We service a lot of places, which is why our website has so many place pages. Our third method of looking up service availability is below. Please click on your province or territory below:
In addition, we also offer DSL internet plans in Alberta and BC, over Telus DSL capable phone lines, and in Ontario, Quebec and The Atlantic provinces over Bell DSL capable phone lines. (Not all phone lines are DSL capable. DSL internet speeds and availability will vary by address.)
Our fourth method is a lookup by Postal Code. It is not perfect, as the cable and phone companies are unwilling to share any bulk address or Postal Code data to populate and update our database with, as that is considered to be 'proprietary', so our requests for bulk data were declined, and one must assume that the CRTC is cool with that. We had to find other sources for data. The CRTC says the cable and phone companies have to allow companies like us a degree of access to their networks, but it did not say that those companies had to make things easy! (They are both our 'Vendors' or 'Suppliers' and our 'competitors', it is a unique situation which luckily we do have in Canada to provide some degree of competition to Canadian consumers, and unfortunately such competition does not exist in the USA, so we were not able to expand into the USA, which means that American internet providers should not be allowed into Canada until we get access down there.) We do the best we can within the limitations imposed on us. Also, if your Postal Code is new, it might not be in our Postal Code database.
As a sixth method, questions are welcome (by email or help desk ticket, rather than by phone, as in an effort to keep down costs, we do not operate a sales call centre or retail locations). It can also take some time to properly research internet availability for an address, so it is best not done while someone is waiting on the phone expecting a quick answer.
Having dependable home internet is ever so important these days. People simply can't get by without internet for home. We would all be lost without our stable home internet connection. It would not be a pretty sight to be sure! Without home internet of some type, people would not be able to watch Netflix, read news online, view and update their social media, or even do their online banking, and that is before we even consider students doing school online or people working from home. Having good internet for home is a necessity of this modern age.
Many people take an interest in the topic of internet speed, whether because they are shopping for internet plans in Canada, or they are simply curious. Most home internet plans in Canada are marketed on the basis of the internet plan download internet speed (on a 'up to' basis), as that it the internet speed that the majority of Canadians are most interested in, because most uses of the internet, for example streaming involve downloading. Few uses involve much uploading, with the notable exceptions of video conferencing like Zoom meetings, as well as serious online gaming. Most ISPs offer home internet plans with a range of unlimited download internet speed plans that you can choose from, and those home internet plans in Canada are very much priced according to each internet plan's download internet speed.
Due to this reason, most networks over which home internet plans in Canada are delivered, are thus configured to maximize the download internet speed, which is why most home internet plans in Canada have much higher internet download speed than they do upload internet speed. The exception to this convention is fiber optic internet plans, which tend to have either the same or similar download internet speed and upload internet speed. If doing an internet speed test, you may note that the actual plan download speed that you will get with your home internet plan might not be the full amount of the plan download internet speed, due to various technical factors beyond the control of your home internet service provider, and often changing ISPs will not increase the actual download speed, if the second ISP is using the same network as the first ISP. (Though you might or might not get a better internet plan price.) Connecting to your modem with an Ethernet cable as opposed to wirelessly may increase your download internet speed, as WiFi connections can be subject to interference from other devices in your home, or your neighbour's home.
What is a good internet speed? A good internet speed is an internet speed that meets your needs, and your budget. For example if all you need to do is stream Netflix, then a home internet download speed of 5 mbps will meet your need. Most people get a home internet plan with more download speed than that, and other streaming service may need a high home internet download speed plan. A home internet download speed plan of 30 mbps would meet the needs of most single individual homes. In a home where there is more than one person using the internet at a time, you may want a higher download speed of perhaps 60 mbps or 75 mbps. If you will be doing any Zoom meetings, then 100 mbps or high downlaod speed is recommended. A 100 mbps home internet download speed usually can meet the needs of several people in one home at the same time. If you are not sure which dowload speed will best meet your needs, start with a lower dowmnload speed plan (which will be less expensive), and try it out. If you decide it is not fast enough for you then ask your ISP to move you up to the next fasest download speed plan. If needed, repeat that process as many times as you need to.
Now that we have told you a little about WRS Web Solutions Inc. (and how we can service most urban addresses in Canada for unlimited high-speed home internet plans over fibre-powered coax cable TV lines) we think it is only fair that we tell you a little about some of the other internet providers in Canada (all of whom are our competitors, and none of them own us). While this may seem like an unusal thing to do (and our marketing people agree with that statement), and likely it is, we will give it a try, to help you get a better idea of your home internet plan options in Canada. Don't worry we will be both gently and polite!
These Canadian Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are commonly referred to (though often these are not their full legal names) by many people as Rogers Internet, Shaw Internet, Bell Internet, Starlink Internet, Videotron Internet, Vigin Plus Internet, Fido Internet, Oxio Internet, Cogeco Internet, Purple Cow Internet, Primus Internet, Xplore Internet, EBOX Internet, Eastlink Internet, and TekSavvy Internet. In doing so, in the form of a brief review of each Canadian ISP, we aim to be informative, objective, and fair. We hope you find the information informative and maybe even helpful. When deciding on an internet service provider in Canada, it is always a good idea to compare Canadian ISPs and compare their home internet plans in Canada.
This list if not complete. There are other ISPs we have not yet reviewed. In each review below, we have done our best to include a link to that company's website, as well as a link to the corresponding home internet plans that we offer over their network (or the networks that they use), so that you may more easily compare their home internet offers with ours. For simplity sake, in this ISP comparison we will refer to our own company as WRS (short for WRS Web Solutions Inc.), and in that same spirit of things, you can also call us WRS Internet if you want to.
A brief review of Shaw internet. Shaw is an internet service provider that operates from North-West Ontario to the Pacific Ocean, offering shaw internet plans off of it's fibre-powered coax cable network, (which was originally a cable TV network). It has been around a long time. On April 3, 2023 after a couple of years of paperwork etc, Rogers announced that it had bought Shaw, with the intent of gradually merging it into Rogers. Shaw offers a wide range of Shaw home internet plans throughout most of the urban areas of Nort-West Ontario & Western Canada, with the notable exceptions of Brandon, Manitoba, as well as Regina, Saskatchewan, and parts of southern Saskathewan. Shaw Internet is a good company, good bunch of people, with good home internet plans in Ontario, Manitoba, Alberta, & BC.
The Shaw Internet website is located at www.shaw.ca, and the competing home internet plans that WRS offers over the Shaw Internet network can be found at: Internet Plans & Prices - Over Shaw Cable Network. If Shaw Internet can service your address for fibre powered coax cable home internet, then so can WRS. Our plans are very comparable to Shaw internet plans in terms of plan speeds and reliability.
A brief review of Bell internet, (including Bell Aliant). Bell offers Bell internet plans over a variety of very different technologies, which include Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) internet which is an older technology, fiber optic internet which is a very modern technology, mobile wireless internet, and fixed wireless internet. Bell is a pretty good company. It is a big company. It started out as a phone company, but it managed to make the transition to other technologies and markets before most people gave up using copper phone lines in favour of mobile phones. The fastest home internet plans in Canada that Bell offers are their fiber optic internet plans, which are some of the fastest internet plans in Canada.
The Bell Internet website is located at www.bell.ca, and the competing home internet plans that WRS offers over the Bell DSL Internet network can be at: Check Our Plans Availability - Over Bell DSL Networks. If Bell Internet can service your Ontario, Quebec or Atlantic Canada address for DSL home internet, then so can WRS (except in Manitoba).
A brief review of Rogers internet packages & plans. Rogers has a long history, which includes some interesting periods of change. They are a good company. They have good people. Rogers seems to have started out as a cable TV company, and transformed over time into a mobile phone company that also happens to also offer fibre-powered coax cable Rogers home internet plans, and some fibre optic internet plans. That said, for those who may not know there are alternatives to Rogers internet plans and packages. (Likely every other ISP on this page would be happy to have you transfer from a Rogers internet plan to one of their home internet plans.)
Rogers internet recently bought Shaw internet, (and not long after sold their significant interest in Cogeco). Rogers internet is gradually merging Shaw internet into Rogers internet, though both have retained separate websites for the time being. They have a wide range of Rogers internet plans in most of the urban parts of Ontario, especially Rogers home internet plans in Toronto and the GTA. The recent Rogers Internet purchase of Shaw Internet, and subsequent merger of the two companies, in effect gives Rogers Internet a firm, ready made foundation for it to expand it's mobile phone network into Western Canada, including for 5G.
The Rogers Internet website is located at www.rogers.ca, and the competing home internet plans that WRS offers over the Rogers Internet networks can be found at: Check Our Plans Availability - Over Rogers Internet Networks. If Rogers Internet can service your address for fibre powered coax cable home internet, then so can WRS.
A brief review of Telus Internet. Telus Internet is based in Vancouver. It began as a telephone company in BC, that later merger with the phone company in Alberta that was once know as Alberta Government Telephones (AGT). Long story short, along the way the name Telus was adopted and is very much their brand name. They also use the brand name PureFibre and are rather protective of that trade mark. PureFibre refers to the fiber optic Telus internet plans that they offer in various parts of Canada, primarily in their Alberta & BC service areas. With the extensive roll-out of their fiber optic Telus internet plans they have very much changed the internet landscape in BC and Alberta, for the better. They also offer some Telus Internet plans in Quebec. Of course they are also a major mobile phone company Canada wide. Telus Internet owns Koodo and Start Internet. Telus is a major player in the home internet marketplace. Telus internet plans have good prices. Telus is known for good customer service. Telus also offers other services such has home security.
A brief review of Starlink internet. Starlink Internet is an American company which has launched an ambitious project of ringing the Earth with a literal ring of low orbit satellites to offer home internet plans in Canada and literally around most of the world. Starlink is registered in Canada with the CRTC as an internet service provider. Starlink Internet's expansion into Canada has been an extremely helpful expansion of high-speed internet availability in Canada. Starlink internet plans have been very well received in Canada.
Starlink is quite impressive, and offers a range of fast internet speeds, though it is not cheap internet. For many people in rural areas with few (if any) other home internet plan options, Starlink internet plans might be their best home internet plan option. That said, for Canadians living in urban areas, they would likely find fibre-powered coax cable internet plans (which is the type of internet that most Canadian ISPs on this page offer) or fibre optic internet plans (if available) to be cheaper internet than satellite internet from Starlink internet. The Starlink Internet website is located at www.starlink.com. WRS does not offer satellite internet.
A brief review of Videotron internet. Videotron offers a nice range of fibre-powered coax cable home internet plans in Quebec (Monteal and most urban parts of the Province of Quebec, though some parts of Quebec are serviced by the Cogeco Internet instead, and in a few places it is a mixture of the two networks). The prices of these Videotron internet plans are reasonable, and the service is good. Service in the English language might not always be as fully available as you might wish, but that it not uncommon in the Province of Quebec.
Videotron is based in the Province of Quebec, and as per the French language laws of that Province it operates mostly in the French language, though an English language version of the Videotron Internet website is located at www.videotron.com/en, and the competing home internet plans that WRS offers over the Videotron Internet network can be found in English at Internet Plans and Prices - Over Videotron Networks. If Videotron Internet can service your address for fibre powered coax cable home internet, then so can WRS. (WRS does offer email support in your choice of English or French, and we use Videotron installers.)
A brief review of Virgin Plus internet in Canada (which has been owned by Bell since 2009), not to be confused with the company in the UK (which is not owned by Bell). Virgin Plus internet plans are only available in Ontario and Quebec, and it appears to only be available over the Bell DSL network, (and perhaps over the Bell fiber optic, but we were not able to confirm that from their website). You can check your address for availbility and plan speeds on their website. The Virgin Plus Internet website is located at www.virginplus.ca/en/internet.
A brief review of Fido internet. Fido Internet is owned by Rogers Internet. If you click on the internet plans menu on the Fido Internet website it will take you to the www.rogers.com website. The competing home internet plans that WRS offers over the Rogers Internet network can be found at Check Our Plans Availability - Over Rogers Internet Networks. If Fido Internet / Rogers Internet can service your address for fibre powered coax cable home internet, then so can WRS.
A brief review of Oxio internet. Oxio has a rather unique looking website. Oxio internet plans have good internet speeds. They have good customer service. Oxio is owned by Cogeco. Oxio uses the fibre-powered coax cable networks of Cogeco, Videotron, Rogers, and Shaw, as does WRS. The Oxio Internet website is located at www.oxio.ca/en/internet, and the competing home internet plans that WRS offers over those respective network links higher up on this page, for the Cogeco Internet, Videotron internet network, Rogers internet network, and Shaw Internet network. If Oxio Internet can service your address for fibre powered coax cable home internet, then so can WRS.
A brief review of Cogeco internet. Cogeco Internet, more formally known as Cogeco Connextion (they very much prefer if you use the French language pronunciation of 'Ko Ji Ko' rather than how the name would seem to sound in English). No matter, once you get corrected on how to pronounce it the first few times, you will catch on. Cogeco Internet is based in Quebec, and operates in Quebec and Ontario, almost as it it were two separate companies. Service in English in Quebec is touch and go, though the French speaking staff do try to help as best they can with whatever English they might happen to know, otherwise best hope that you speak French. French and English service is available in Ontario. They do offer well priced home internet plans over fibre-powered cable internet networks. Cogeco internet plans have good internet speed.
The Cogeco Internet website is located at www.cogeco.ca/en, and the competing home internet plans that WRS offers over the Cogeco Internet network can be found at Our Internet Plans & Prices - Over Cogeco Networks. If Cogeco Internet can service your address for fibre powered coax cable home internet, then so can WRS and we use Cogeco installers, but we do offer support through our website in your choice of English or French, even if you live in the Province of Quebec.
A brief review of Purple Cow internet. Purple Cow's service area comprises parts of Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island & Newfoundland. They use the Eastlink fibre-powered coax cable network. Purple Cow has a lot of very positive reviews for their customer service and their very distinctively branded Purple Cow internet plans and plan prices. The Purple Cow Internet website is located at www.purplecowinternet.com/internet/, and the competing home internet plans that WRS offers over the Internet network can be found at Our Internet Plans & Prices - Over Eastlink Networks. If Purple Cow Internet can service your address for fibre powered coax cable home internet, then so can WRS.
A brief review of Primus internet. Primus Internet is owned by Bell. From what we can determine, Primus internet plans appear to use the Rogers fibre-powered coax cable network in Ontario and the Rogers owned Shaw fibre-powered coax cable network in Western Canada. The primus internet plans seemed reasonably priced, but be sure to read the fine print about the terms and prices before you buy. The Primus Internet website is located at www.primus.ca, and the competing home internet plans that WRS offers over the Internet network can be found at Check Our Plans Availability - Over Rogers Internet Networks. If Primus Internet can service your address for fibre powered coax cable home internet, then so can WRS.
A brief review of Xplore internet. The Xplore Internet website is located at get.xplore.ca. Xplore has been around a number of years, they have good advertised internet plan prices. Please note that with any satelite internet service, skyward obstacles such as trees (especially with leaves on them) may affect service availability or quality. It is suggested that you ask them questions, and be sure to read all of the fine print before ordering, so that you know all of the details of what you are agreeing to, and what you should be expecting.
A brief review of EBOX internet. EBOX Internet is owned by Bell Internet. EBox Internet is based in Quebec, and serves Quebec and Ontario. EBOX uses the Bell Internet, Rogers Internet, Videotron Internet and Cogeco Internet networks to deliver its home internet plans EBOX internet plans are fairly priced. The EBOX Internet website is located at www.ebox.ca, and the competing home internet plans that WRS offers over each of those network can be found from links on this page, or by clicking on your province then the name of the place that you live in. If EBOX Internet can service your address for fibre powered coax cable home internet or DSL internet, then so can WRS.
A brief review of Eastlink internet The Eastlink Internet website is located at www.eastlink.ca, and they offer a range of Eastlink internet plans of varying speeds at decent prices. The competing home internet plans that WRS offers over the Eastlink Internet (but only in Ontario and The Atlantic Provinces) network can be found at Our Internet Plans & Prices - Over Eastlink Networks. If Eastlink Internet can service your Ontario or Atlantic Canada address (but not west of Ontario) for fibre powered coax cable home internet, then so can WRS.
A brief review of TekSavvy internet. We actually like TekSavvy Internet, they had some really neat marketing images on their website, the whole spaceman theme was fun. They are a good bunch of people, with a lot of knowledge and experience, and TekSavvy internet plans have good prices. We enjoy competing against their home internet plans. TekSavvy Intenet is available over most fibre-powered coax cable internet networks in Canada.
The TekSavvy Internet website is located at www.teksavvy.com/, and the competing home internet plans that WRS offers can be found by clicking on your Province then the the name of the place that you live in. If TekSavvy Internet can service your address for fibre powered coax cable home internet or DSL internet, then so can WRS.
A brief review of The Urban Internet Company, which can service most urban addresses in Canada over fibre-powred coax cable networks. They are a nice bunch of people, very knowledgeable, and offer good customer service. They have good prices on home internet plans in Canada. The Urban Internet Company website is located at www.urbaninternetcompany.ca, and the competing home internet plans that WRS offers over the same Internet networks can be found by Province (above on this page, click on the Province name to see an expanded list of places that we service by province). If The Urban Internet Company can service your address for fibre powered coax cable home internet, then so can WRS.
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