Two summer villages share this shoreline, Island Lake and Island Lake South, and MCSnet fixed wireless covers both today. From $49.95/month.
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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 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.
Part of our Athabasca County coverage. Nearby: Athabasca and Boyle. See the full rural Alberta internet guide.
Reliable Alberta internet that is down to earth. Claim the offer when you check availability at your Island Lake address.
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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.
Island Lake sits about 20 km northwest of the Town of Athabasca, near Highway 2. The Summer Village of Island Lake, on the lake’s western shore, incorporated in 1958. The Summer Village of Island Lake South, on the southern shore, is a separate, independently governed village, though both share the same lake, just under 8 square kilometres and dotted with small islands.
Athabasca County runs its own campground here too, with unserviced sites, a boat launch, and a fish cleaning station for the day-trip crowd.
Island Lake’s own community website calls it a nature lover’s paradise, rolling hills and forest filled with deer and moose around a lake built for swimming, boating, and canoeing in summer, then cross-country skiing and ice fishing once it freezes. Island Lake Bay Days brings the community together every summer.
None of that changes what a cabin needs from its internet: enough speed for a video call, enough reliability for a security camera through the winter, and no hassle getting it installed.
MCSnet fixed wireless reaches cabins around both Island Lake and Island Lake South today, the same tower network that covers the farms nearby. The Town of Athabasca and its own page, Athabasca high speed internet, are about 20 minutes away. Explore the rest of Athabasca County or the wider MCSnet network, and see every plan on the plans page.
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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.
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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.
Yes. MCSnet’s fixed wireless network covers both the Summer Village of Island Lake and Island Lake South today, with plans starting at $49.95 per month.
No. They are two separate, independently governed summer villages on the same lake, Island Lake on the western shore and Island Lake South on the southern shore.
Yes. Our fixed wireless network is built for exactly that, video calls and steady connections whether you are there for the weekend or the whole season.
One quick check, and a straight answer from a team that knows these shorelines.
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