Cabin and cottage country in the County of Barrhead. MCSnet fixed wireless covers Thunder Lake today, and it is named in our fiber build completing by March 2027. From $49.95/month.
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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.
Part of our County of Barrhead coverage. Nearby: Barrhead and Manola. See the full rural Alberta internet guide.
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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.
Thunder Lake Provincial Park sits on the lake’s north-western shore, about 20 kilometres west of Barrhead, established January 28, 1958 on 208 hectares. The lake itself covers 7.03 square kilometres with a maximum depth of 6.1 metres, and the park’s 127 well-treed campsites, including 66 powered sites, fill up all summer with boaters, water-skiers, swimmers, and paddlers. Canoes, kayaks, and paddle boards are available to rent right on site, and anglers come for northern pike and yellow perch.
The small hamlet of Thunder Lake sits just south of the park on the lake’s eastern shore, unincorporated and governed by County of Barrhead Council.
Thunder Lake is a named community in MCSnet’s current federally supported fiber expansion, the same 3,401-household build that covers Birch Cove, Nakamun Park, and Lac La Nonne, with construction scheduled to complete by March 2027. MCSnet already built transit fiber to the Thunder Lake hamlet in 2022 through a partnership with the County of Barrhead, and that backbone is now the foundation for bringing fiber all the way to the home.
Until fiber lights up, fixed wireless keeps cabins and cottages connected today. Follow the build here.
The town of Barrhead is about 20 kilometres east, with Manola and Neerlandia nearby and Lac La Nonne also on the fiber list. See the whole region at the County of Barrhead guide, every speed and price on the plans page, or start at rural internet in Alberta.
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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
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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 Thunder Lake today, and it is named in our fiber expansion completing by March 2027. Check your address and we will confirm what reaches your lot right now.
That is what it is built for. Fixed wireless handles video calls and remote work today, and once fiber reaches the shoreline, Thunder Lake internet will match anything in the city.
The project’s construction deadline is March 2027, with communities lighting up in phases as the build progresses. Checking availability now is the best way to be notified when your address goes live.
One quick check covers today’s options and tomorrow’s fiber.
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