MCSnet’s fixed wireless network covers the town of Barrhead and every hamlet around it, and our fiber build is now underway at Lac La Nonne and Thunder Lake. Plans start at $49.95/month, with speeds up to 940 Mbps today and fiber up to 1.5 Gbps coming.
CHECK AVAILABILITYWhich service reaches you depends on exactly where you are, and you do not have to guess: put your address into the availability checker and it will show you the service and speeds available at that spot, along with current pricing.
Live in Barrhead, Manola and Neerlandia. 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.
Our federally supported build covers Thunder Lake and Lac La Nonne, 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: Barrhead, Manola, Neerlandia, Thunder Lake, Fort Assiniboine. See the full rural Alberta internet guide.
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The County of Barrhead No. 11 covers 2,385 square kilometres of farmland, forest, and lake country about 120 kilometres northwest of Edmonton, home to roughly 5,900 people under Reeve Erik Munck. The town of Barrhead anchors the county, with the hamlets of Campsie, Manola, Neerlandia, and Thunder Lake spread across the townships around it, and Lac La Nonne straddling the county’s southern edge.
MCSnet, headquartered in St. Paul, Alberta since 1995, built the wireless network that covers this county today, and in 2022 partnered directly with the County of Barrhead to push fiber deeper into the region.
Every community below is covered by the MCSnet network. The linked guides go deeper on what is available where you live:
Also served: Campsie.
Part of the wider MCSnet rural Alberta network.
In 2022, MCSnet and the County of Barrhead partnered to build 58 kilometres of transit fiber connecting the Kiel Industrial Park with the hamlets of Neerlandia, Thunder Lake, and Manola, and the area around Lac La Nonne, improving wireless connectivity for approximately 1,000 households across the county.
That transit fiber is the backbone behind our fixed wireless network today, and it is also the foundation for the fiber-to-the-home build now underway at Lac La Nonne and Thunder Lake, part of a federally supported expansion reaching 3,401 rural households across the region, with construction scheduled to complete by March 2027. Follow the fiber projects here.
“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’s fixed wireless network covers the town of Barrhead and every hamlet in the county, with fiber to the home now under construction at Lac La Nonne and Thunder Lake. Plans start at $49.95 per month.
Fiber is expanding. MCSnet built 58 km of transit fiber through the county in 2022, and a federally supported fiber-to-the-home build is now underway at Lac La Nonne and Thunder Lake, with construction completing by March 2027.
Yes. Both hamlets are covered by MCSnet fixed wireless, strengthened by the transit fiber backbone built through the county in 2022. Check your address and we will confirm the speeds available at your home.
