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Streaming in Saskatoon

Saskatoon has better fibre coverage than most Canadian cities several times its size, because SaskTel is a provincially owned carrier that built infiNET fibre out on a public timetable rather than a commercial one. The practical result is that a bad streaming experience here is rarely the last mile.

Internet in this market

SaskTel infiNET reaches a large majority of Saskatoon addresses, with Shaw cable and Access Communications providing alternatives. When streaming problems do happen in this market, home Wi-Fi and the player app account for almost all of them.

Providers: SaskTel, Shaw, Rogers, Access Communications.

What people watch

• Blades
• Huskies
• Rush

Local detail

The city's winter is severe enough that indoor viewing hours run well above the national average from November through March, and the student population at the University of Saskatchewan concentrates that demand further in the neighbourhoods around campus. Summer is the opposite — evening audiences thin out sharply once the light lasts until ten.

Population: 270,000 in the city, 330,000 in the metropolitan area

Saskatoon questions

If I am on SaskTel fibre, do I still need to test during peak?

Test anyway, but expect it to pass. Fibre's advantage is that evening throughput stays close to daytime throughput, so if something does degrade at 8pm on a fibre line the cause is almost always inside your home — the router, the Wi-Fi, or the device.

Does Saskatchewan's time zone affect scheduling?

Yes, and it catches people out. Saskatchewan does not observe daylight saving, so the province's offset from Toronto changes twice a year: two hours behind in summer, one hour behind in winter. Guide listings that assume a fixed offset will be wrong for half the year.