question about downloading

[sidekick]

how many megabytes or whatever are you allowed to download a month before shaw calls you and tells you to piss off?

i've been raping that mixingbowl.org website for the past few days and would like to know when to expect my phone call :)

[NekoRaver]

I think we got the phone call after downloading gigs of movies and music. Not sure how much though. They can be bitches once you've surpassed your limit, Good luck :)

[sidekick]

oh well, i haven't been downloading gigs i don't think...maybe one gig so far.

[mapleleaf4ever]

When you hit around 6Gb I believe they get cranky.

[NekoRaver]

One gig is nothing, you shouldn't be worried about that. Don't quote me though

[FireWire]

With the basic Shaw package it is 7 GB download and 2 GB upload.

With the Shaw Extreme package it is 50 GB download and upload combined.

[sidekick]

i just counted and i'm at like 1.5 gigs right now. so i'll stop at 6.

thanks guys :)

[sh4un]

with dccnet its 10gb download and 3gb upload a month.

and ive been over so many times and ive never been charged :)

[FireWire]

I used to have Telus and I noticed that they never warned or charged me. I was ALWAYS over (by A LOT) and never got any warnings or had to pay any extra.

[dSl-DuDe]

yup, Firewire is correct with Telus

Its supposed to be "5 gig download, 1gig upload per month"

On average, i do around 40-60 gb of uploads per month, since i run a server, Been doing this for 4+ years. Telus has never said a thing

SHAW can kiss my ass, as none of our money goes to them anymore..I HATE their services. Currently on Bell ExpressVU for tv/HDTV and Telus for phone and internet

[Mr.Wrong]

i just went through this with shaw

think i have the basic deal but not sure...
whatever i have.. is 20gig per month (upload and download combined)
and it took using 115gigs over two months for them to call

they were saying they would cut the internet if it kept up at that rate
you can monitor how much your using at secure.shaw.ca

[Electroflux]

Go to secure.shaw.ca, and have a recent bill ready.

There is an internet usage chart on here somewhere, and after you've set up an account, you can come here and see how much you've been using.

I always thought the limit was 40GB down, as this is what a Shaw representative told me, and each time I went over that, I'd come home to a disabled modem.

I'm now on Telus, and I don't think I'd switch back.

[penguinabc123]

what is that site you mentioned jake? i cant find it or what its for

[sidekick]

www.themixingbowl.org

it's a site where you can download torrents of tons of mixes. mostly from BBC radio, but some live sets as well. they have so many essential mixes. it's fucking awesome.

[narc]

Shaw Internet
High-Speed Lite $24.95/month
Download Speed - Up to 3.5 Mbit
Web Space - 20 MB/email address
Personal Email Addresses - 1 (100MB space)
Price Without Basic Cable - $29.95/month
IP Addresses - 1

High-Speed Internet $34.95/month
Download Speed - Up to 5.0 Mbit
Email Accounts - 10MB (100MB space)
Web Space - 20MB with email address
Personal IP Addresses - 2
Price with Purchased Modem - $37.95/month ($5.00 more if you don't buy modem)

for $10.00/month more
High-Speed Xtreme I
--same as above--
Download Speed - Up to 7.0 Mbit
Upstream & Downstream Traffic Combined - 50GB


Acceptable Use Policy

Bandwidth, Data Storage and Other Limitation
....guidelines for Bandwidth Usage/month for each service package are the following: Shaw High-Speed (with Xtreme-I) - 50 GigaByte; SOHO - 50 GigaByte; Professional - 70 GigaByte; Business - 100 GigaByte (combined download and upload). Business services which are combined with the Xtreme-I upgrade retain the stated Bandwidth Usage/month guidelines....
....Residential Shaw High Speed and High Speed Lite services do not have specific guidelines of this nature as the Services is not intended for business applications....

To find 'Shaw's Bandwidth Monitor' goto https://secure.shaw.ca/
-ACCOUNT SERVICES
----My Shaw Internet Services
------Shaw's Internet Services
------Your Modem Usage

if you don't have a shaw email, they can't contact you to 'warn you' of your exceeded bandwith.

you can also just go find a bandwidth monitor program

[FeelGood]

If you pay around $35-40 a month then its 50gb upload and download.

[tvmann]

They don't seem to have a "Modem Usage" link there anymore.
I notice they now let you have 10 email/web accounts now, each web account is 10 MB, previously it was 7 accounts.

Originally Posted by Narc

Shaw Internet

To find 'Shaw's Bandwidth Monitor' goto https://secure.shaw.ca/
-ACCOUNT SERVICES
----My Shaw Internet Services
------Shaw's Internet Services
------Your Modem Usage

[narc]

Originally Posted by tvmann

They don't seem to have a "Modem Usage" link there anymore.
I notice they now let you have 10 email/web accounts now, each web account is 10 MB, previously it was 7 accounts.

The 'Modem Usage' link is there, I'm looking at it right now. Although if you've never registered an @shaw.ca email/webspace account you won't see it.

Since @Shaw provided internet I've always had 10 email addy's available, but now they upped the Webspace Account from 10mb to 20mb's space. And instead of 10MB limit on each email account, it has been changed to 100MBs

[Cdn_Brdr]

I just checked my usage with Telus and I've consistently been at about 400% my allowable BW for the past 6 months.... not one call.

Telus is pretty lax when it comes down to it.

[tvmann]

Wierd - I've been using those extra accounts for 5+ years so am registered but it still doesn't show the modem usage link. But it looks like they increased my webspace to 20 MB in the last week or so :) - good for posting little videos or a few mp3sl, although it would be better if they just let us have one big 200 MB webspace instead of 10 little ones.

***EDIT*** someone said in another forum that sometimes you need to email Shaw to get them allow you to see the modem usage link.

Originally Posted by Narc

The 'Modem Usage' link is there, I'm looking at it right now. Although if you've never registered an @shaw.ca email/webspace account you won't see it.

Since @Shaw provided internet I've always had 10 email addy's available, but now they upped the Webspace Account from 10mb to 20mb's space. And instead of 10MB limit on each email account, it has been changed to 100MBs

[narc]

Great Resource for ISP information and troubleshooting...

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/telus

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/shaw

http://www.dslreports.com/forums/23

[LDUB]

For all those speaking about how relaxed TELUS is, that was probably because up until this year they had never bothered to even monitor usage. Now that they have customers have been segregated depending on usage and they have started warning, but they are starting from the top and working their way down... so if you are a little over it will be a while before you receive any sort of warning.