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Grobyc
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Canada18410 Posts
March 16 2010 22:47 GMT
#1
Before today we had Telus as our provider for internet and cable, which was not great to say the least. Internet was pretty slow(cannot buffer YouTube videos at 360p to keep up with the playback, slow downloads, etc), television crapped out all the time, and the house phone didn't even work. A couple weeks ago we decided to switch over to Shaw, and while I was at college today they came and installed/switched over everything.

Internet feels 20x faster, and now I can even watch YouTube vids on 1080 and still buffer way faster than it plays and downloads are very fast. The cable is really nice, as we get two receivers with fancy ass remotes, we can pause TV, etc.

The phone... Now I thought the problem with our house phone had to be on our end, because we had Telus send someone over to diagnose the problem 3 times, and each time the different person would say he doesn't know what's wrong, and that the problem is on our end. The person from Shaw took a look at it after some testing with devices he found out the one of the circuits was short in the box that Telus owns outside our house, and that that is why the phone wasn't working. Since that is Telus' and not Shaw's, he installed whatever he was supposed to originally, and now the phone works! Turns out the problem is on Telus' end and always has been, and we've been paying the package that include phone service from Telus the whole year the phone hasn't been working(since march of last year). That kind of irritates me, and we are going to complain about that. Anyhow, extremely happy that we switched over ^_^

With my beefy new internet I'll be able to do a lot more (lag-free) streaming of WL/OSL/MSL/etc and my own SC games, so look forward to that!

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Husky
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
United States3362 Posts
March 16 2010 22:52 GMT
#2
I dont know anything about Canadian internet companies, but for American, Telus sounds like Comcast and Shaw sounds like.... some non existent make believe company.

Hopefully it keeps working well for you
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semantics
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
10040 Posts
March 16 2010 22:55 GMT
#3
Comcastic i really believe their stupid fast, so many times that fast Internet was no where to be found probably too stupid to find it's way to my house. Moved back to dsl got a 12mb connection from at&t a bit more costly for the speed but it's been far more reliable and crap.
FragKrag
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
United States11552 Posts
March 16 2010 22:59 GMT
#4
God, I hate the bay area because all there is to choose from is AT&T shitty internet, and Comcast -_-
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semantics
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
10040 Posts
March 16 2010 23:08 GMT
#5
Blame the old excising lines running though the area. Bay area dail-up is pretty much 28.8k actually not 56k
IskatuMesk
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
Canada969 Posts
March 16 2010 23:13 GMT
#6
<3 Shaw. </3 Telus. All there is to say about it. I feel a little sorry for Americans who don't have access to Shaw.
mOnion
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States5657 Posts
March 16 2010 23:15 GMT
#7
google isp soon pleeeease! im jealous of ur healthcare and internet now too

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ii.blitzkrieg
Profile Joined November 2006
Canada1122 Posts
March 16 2010 23:20 GMT
#8
I switched from Shaw to Telus a few months ago ($) and I haven't noticed any significant difference with internet.

Shaw cable is like 1000x better though
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d(O.o)a
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Canada5066 Posts
March 16 2010 23:30 GMT
#9
Which shaw internet did you get?
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PH
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United States6173 Posts
March 16 2010 23:31 GMT
#10
Shaw sounds like something out of a daydream fantasy...
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Manifesto7
Profile Blog Joined November 2002
Osaka27148 Posts
March 16 2010 23:34 GMT
#11
Sonuds like a fucking miracle. Shaw and Telus are basically the only two gigs in town, and because of the lack of competition they can easily give bad service / hike rates / cap your internet with little to no punishment.

It is really sad how far behind Canada is on developing its high speed infrastructure. Cell phones are the same way too, Canadian companies working under a government imposed monopoly.
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semantics
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
10040 Posts
March 16 2010 23:42 GMT
#12
Oh it's going to get worse in the US unlimited plans for verison will go bye bye with their adding of 4g networks so no 4g plan will have unlimited data plans for it only rate based lol so all the speed but it's going to cost you.
Graham
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
Canada1259 Posts
March 16 2010 23:46 GMT
#13
Canada is really bad for internet/telephone monopolies.
Grobyc
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Canada18410 Posts
March 17 2010 00:19 GMT
#14
On March 17 2010 08:30 d(O.o)a wrote:
Which shaw internet did you get?

In order from cheapest to most expensive it goes:
High-speed lite > High speed > High-speed extreme > High-speed warp

I have the 2nd one, regular high speed. I lol'd at how they named high-speed warp though hahaha
If you watch Godzilla backwards it's about a benevolent lizard who helps rebuild a city and then moonwalks into the ocean.
SanguineToss
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Canada815 Posts
March 17 2010 00:55 GMT
#15
Im with telus right now and its gay im gonna change too soon !
Never.Die
Profile Joined March 2010
Japan189 Posts
March 17 2010 03:16 GMT
#16
I have like 2.6mb download speed and only 65kbps upload speed lol and this is with bloody roadrunner
EvilTeletubby
Profile Blog Joined January 2004
Baltimore, USA22254 Posts
March 17 2010 03:18 GMT
#17
On March 17 2010 07:52 HuskyTheHusky wrote:
I dont know anything about Canadian internet companies, but for American, Telus sounds like Comcast and Shaw sounds like.... some non existent make believe company.


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SonuvBob
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
Aiur21549 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-03-17 04:56:34
March 17 2010 04:54 GMT
#18
On March 17 2010 12:18 EvilTeletubby wrote:
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On March 17 2010 07:52 HuskyTheHusky wrote:
I dont know anything about Canadian internet companies, but for American, Telus sounds like Comcast and Shaw sounds like.... some non existent make believe company.



You're on the wrong team. :p OP reminds me a lot of my switch from Comcast to FiOS.
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