Fastest Internet Connection I Can Find

[maztraz]

I was wondering what would be the fastest/most performant internet connection I could find in British Colombia?

I've heard of www.shaw.ca .. is that any good?

Under 40$/mth is all I wanna spend...The cheaper the better and with LAN of course
(if you know any better please care to let me know)

Any one has any tips..?

Can't work without a fast internet connection at home..

peace

[neoh]

There's a new service provider in town that are knocking shaw out of the water in terms of pricing and speed.

http://www.3web.com

You can get a 7.0MBit line for $34.95/mo

I'm going to be switching soon.

[maztraz]

Originally Posted by neoh

There's a new service provider in town that are knocking shaw out of the water in terms of pricing and speed.

http://www.3web.com

You can get a 7.0MBit line for $34.95/mo

I'm going to be switching soon.

oh nice thanks...I heard you had rarely problemes with shaw
How trustfull is www.3web.com ?

[FeelGood]

shaw is decent, also check out telus.net for adsl.
3web, hrmm ill be looking into that.

edit: wow, 3web sounds tooo good to be true. question is whats their bandwidth restrictions compared to shaw?

[maztraz]

Originally Posted by eighty5

question is whats their bandwidth restrictions compared to shaw?

Its what I had in mind...
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[clevich]

Originally Posted by neoh

There's a new service provider in town that are knocking shaw out of the water in terms of pricing and speed.

http://www.3web.com

You can get a 7.0MBit line for $34.95/mo

I'm going to be switching soon.

3web is a shaw reseller.

[FeelGood]

Originally Posted by clevich

3web is a shaw reseller.

shaw it is.

[clevich]

Originally Posted by eighty5

shaw it is.

im not saying don't go with 3web, just when your connection goes down, don't expect fast support when you need it. :p

[FeelGood]

yeah but if they are a re-seller, and shaw is already jew'd out (no offense to any jewish ppl, i should actually edit that) when it comes to bandwidth restrictions, so i can't see 3web being any better then shaw.

shaw it is.

[neoh]

it's true, that 3web is a shaw reseller and uses it's same lines.

but it's cheaper for faster.

I'm not doing any convincing, do what you want.

[FeelGood]

yah it might be CHEAPER and FAST, but if they only let you have like 10gb a month then its a HUGE problem for me.

so QUICK, but it doesnt go far.

[maztraz]

Same I download Minimum 10GB month..:214:

[FeelGood]

im known as the bandwidth whore.

[neoh]

Originally Posted by eighty5

yah it might be CHEAPER and FAST, but if they only let you have like 10gb a month then its a HUGE problem for me.

so QUICK, but it doesnt go far.

god, suck on a seether dude.

It's the same as shaw.

And for an FYI, I downloaded 103GB last month. And I havent had a written or verbal warning regarding it.

[FeelGood]

well then you got lucky my friend.
pass the seether.

and who says they have the same bandwidth regulations?

[MC Hammered]

I use Shaw Xtreme and it's pretty quick. With Shaw it also depends who else is on "your" pipe that depends how much bandwidth you get as it is communal.

If you want real fast speeds find an office in Harbour Center and tap into the OC3 backbone that is there. It's retarded fast.

[MC Hammered]

Originally Posted by neoh

god, suck on a seether dude.

It's the same as shaw.

And for an FYI, I downloaded 103GB last month. And I havent had a written or verbal warning regarding it.

Shaw doesn't care about the downloading, they care about the uploading.

You go over your bandwidth and it's mostly uploading and they'll shut you down and question you like they did me. Why? They want to upsell you to more pricey server packages instead.

[clevich]

Originally Posted by MC Hammered

I use Shaw Xtreme and it's pretty quick. With Shaw it also depends who else is on "your" pipe that depends how much bandwidth you get as it is communal.

If you want real fast speeds find an office in Harbour Center and tap into the OC3 backbone that is there. It's retarded fast.

mmm peer1 bw... :D

[FeelGood]

I disagree Winston.

I used to download like a motherfucker when I lived in port moody, and id go over their limits on a regular basis and I used to get a phone call EVERY month and I did like NO uploading whatsoever, maybe 500mb-1gb?

Downloading, i was pushing like 30-50gb a month trying to stay under my limits when I first started, then i started going nuts averaging like 70-100gb a month, still with NO uploading, and then thats when the complaints started coming in.

In their privacy policy it says im given a 50gb per month (uploading and downloading).

[MC Hammered]

Wonder if it is different per city? :p

I download like a leech on meth and I've had no problems. Only when I started uploading when I run my p2p music search engine did they get on my case and had to monitor my usage patterns.

[FeelGood]

Hrmmmm. I know they dont like uploading, but did you still stay under your 50gb downloading limit?

I guess I shall find out soon, my billing cycle is up.
I know ive downloaded well over 150gb this month.

Just moved into my new place, and had to go nuts.

[MC Hammered]

Stay under?!?!? :haha:

[FeelGood]

hahahah

[sNyx]

yeah im a rage download, never had a problem w/ Shaw or Telus in my 4 (or 5?) years of switching between both periodically. plus I have been in multiple neighborhood from New West to Coquitlam, and Downtown. so... I donno about this capp stuff :p

[Cdn_Brdr]

Shaw Hi-Speed is like $40 a month and you get 30GB per month with a max speed of 5.0MBit

$50 will get you Hi-Speed Xtreme with a 50GB up/down limit and a max speed of 7.0MBit

For speed, Telus doesn't even compare.