MCSnet built 90 kilometres of new fiber into Athabasca County to bring GigAir to Boyle, Colinton, and Grassland, and our tower network reaches the lake communities and farms around them. From $49.95/month, speeds up to 940 Mbps.
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Live in Athabasca, Boyle, Colinton, Grassland, Rochester and the Athabasca industrial park. Our fastest wireless service, with speeds up to 940 Mbps over the air with a quick install and no trenching through your yard. How GigAir works.
This community is named in our federally supported fiber build, with construction required to be complete by March 2027. Follow the build.
Our tower network is built for the farms, acreages, and lake lots past where wired providers stop, with speeds up to 940 Mbps, enough for a busy household, and installation by our own crews.
MCSnet builds fiber, GigAir, and fixed wireless across rural Alberta, and the network keeps growing. See where fiber is headed next.
Community guides in this area: Athabasca, Boyle, Colinton, Grassland, Island Lake, Baptiste Lake, Skeleton Lake, Rochester. See the full rural Alberta internet guide.
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Dependable internet is not a luxury anymore. It is family movie night streaming without the spinning wheel, the kids gaming with friends two provinces over, a video call to a child working away, and a rural business reaching customers anywhere. It is a full house of phones, TVs, laptops, and cameras all running at once without anyone shouting to get off the internet.
MCSnet is built to carry all of it. Check what reaches your address and we will show you the speeds available where you live, then help you match them to how your household actually uses the internet.
Athabasca County stretches across 6,111 square kilometres of north-central Alberta, home to about 6,959 people spread between the Village of Boyle, eight summer villages, and hamlets like Colinton, Grassland, Rochester, and Wandering River. In 2022, MCSnet completed a 90 kilometre, $2.25 million fiber expansion, half funded by the federal Universal Broadband Fund, bringing fiber-fed GigAir service to Boyle, Colinton, and Grassland.
Where fiber has not reached yet, our fixed wireless towers cover the county’s farms, acreages, and lake cabins, and we keep expanding both networks every year.
Every community below is on the MCSnet network. The linked guides go deeper on what is available where you live:
Also served: Rochester, Wandering River, Meanook, Perryvale, Caslan, Atmore, Ellscott.
Part of the wider MCSnet rural Alberta network.
Athabasca County has more named lake communities than almost anywhere else in MCSnet territory: the Summer Villages of Island Lake and Island Lake South on Island Lake, Sunset Beach, Whispering Hills, South Baptiste, and West Baptiste around Baptiste Lake, and Mewatha Beach and Bondiss on Skeleton Lake. The county runs its own campgrounds at Island Lake and Baptiste Lake for day visitors and campers.
Cabins and lake lots are exactly the kind of address our tower network was built for, and Mewatha Beach and Bondiss are named communities in our current fiber expansion, with construction scheduled to complete by March 2027.
MCSnet installed complimentary GigAir Wi-Fi hotspots at three Boyle community facilities: the Community Centre, the Curling Rink, and the Arena at the Millview Recreation Complex. Village of Boyle CAO Warren Giffin said reliable internet “makes our community more accessible and more interconnected.” It is the kind of project we take on because we live in these communities too. See the full story on the Boyle page.
“Great internet service provided for rural users. We have been with MCSnet for over a decade and have absolutely no reason to change. From getting an actual live local person on the phone when you call for support, to friendly and professional technicians, MCSnet is a great value for the service received.”
Jennifer Waddington“Easy to reach customer service, dependable wifi in the country, upgraded equipment.”
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Learn moreMCSnet builds and runs its own network across rural Alberta. GigAir, fixed wireless and fiber to the home are our last-mile technologies, the final link into your home. GigAir and our newest fixed wireless run on two proven gigabit wireless platforms, with fiber to the home where available.
Up to940 Mbps
Built on Terragraph mesh technology, cnWave 60 GHz powered the first GigAir network and delivers gigabit wireless with no trenching through your yard.
Watch how GigAir works · Airspan (formerly Cambium Networks)
Up to940 Mbps
Our newest fixed wireless uses Tarana next-generation fixed wireless, which delivers gigabit-class speeds even where trees or terrain block the line of sight, and reaches areas 60 GHz cannot.
Up to1.5 Gbps
A dedicated fiber line into the building, built by MCSnet as our fiber network grows across rural Alberta.
High speeds at your home start with a fast network behind it. MCSnet runs its own fiber optic network linking many of our towers together, so the last-mile wireless and fiber that reach you are backed by a high-capacity fiber backbone. How fiber to the tower works.
Many areas are served by more than one technology. The speed you can get depends on your address, so check your address to see the plans available to you.
CHECK YOUR ADDRESS Learn more about our internet technologiesPlans start at $49.95 per month, and right now new customers get three months of unlimited internet at that price. Exact pricing depends on which service reaches your address, so the availability checker shows your options and their prices in about a minute.
Enter your address on our availability page. It checks your location against our network and shows what reaches you, along with the speeds and pricing available at that address. You can also call our local team at 1-866-390-3928.
GigAir and fixed wireless reach speeds up to 940 Mbps, and fiber to the home reaches speeds up to 1.5 Gbps where available. The speed at your home depends on your address, so check your address to see what you can get.
MCSnet delivers fiber, GigAir hotspots, and fixed wireless across Athabasca County, including Boyle, Colinton, Grassland, Island Lake, Baptiste Lake, Skeleton Lake, and the Town of Athabasca. Plans start at $49.95 per month.
Not to the house yet, but the county is well served. MCSnet’s 90 kilometre, $2.25 million build in 2022 ran fiber to the towers serving Boyle, Colinton, and Grassland, which is what powers GigAir there. Mewatha Beach and Bondiss on Skeleton Lake are named in our current fiber expansion, completing by March 2027.
Yes. Our fixed wireless network covers all three lake areas today. Check your address and we will confirm exactly what reaches your lot.
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