telus vs. shaw internet

[esoter1c]

Originally Posted by ebbomega

Pedophiles giving kids candy to get them to come into their van are no better than pedophiles who don't....

:285:

So Telus is Paedophilic then ?

[decypher]

Originally Posted by matéo

I have had shaw for a while now and I'm very happy. Fortunately I am able to package cable tv and internet together for about 100 bucks a month. Whenever I have any difficulty with a connection or a question regarding a bill, etc Shaw is just a call away. Telus on the other hand! I can never get through to telus whenever I call them wether it be about a business cell phone or the internet. meh.

No doubt, telus customer service is atrocious. You can't even call the individual stores to ask something because all the numbers direct you to the automated system. I'm beginning to believe that their customer service division is actually a single answering machine in a warehouse somewhere.

[LastWerd]

shaw digital all the way!

includes long distance in candad and us.
voicemaill and caller id
call waiting
411
911
calling out side north america only 3 cents a minute!

i pay 30 bucks a month for phone and my internet is 35

oh and free set up for the phone, and they came the next day!

telus has to give shit away cuz they suck.

[LastWerd]

Originally Posted by decypher

No doubt, telus customer service is atrocious. You can't even call the individual stores to ask something because all the numbers direct you to the automated system. I'm beginning to believe that their customer service division is actually a single answering machine in a warehouse somewhere.

ya they suck. when I call shaw they say "hello ms.hanson how are you today?" and you never have to wait! their online billing rocks too. its so user friendly

[Senior]

Maybe I should dump Telus.

[zarlon]

Originally Posted by Revolver

dude how do you do that?.....speeding up torrents against shaw.

im on shaw now and my torrent downloading is painfully slow.

fucking shaw bastards...i wanna switch over to telus.

its called "ellaquoya" (i cant spell it)

and yes it does cripple torrents at times

[Goodfellow]

Originally Posted by matéo

I think that the product itself is pretty much the same at both companies.

false

shaws newest extreme line is faster than anything Telus offers

[tiedye]

Originally Posted by BongMan

it all depends really ADSL is great if you are close to a switching station further away the slower ya go, where cable you get the same speed no matter the distance though you could slow down during peak hours so on and so on. Personally I have and always will be a cable subscriber it does the house hold very well fast speeds and never any bog down times. but I would suggest getting pamphlets from both Shaw and Telus and wiegh the pros and cons yourselfe..

I always thought it was the other way around. ADSL is partitioned relative to how many users are active, whereas cable is relative to how close you are. I might be mistaken though

[ppcock]

I work for Shaw jake

Telus: slower bandwidth, you've gotta wait for a port to open, the techs are idiots, you do get a free flatscreen lcd but you have to be connected with them for 3 years, horrible congestion

shaw: you can get a home bundle that includes highspeed, free antivirus, free service calls (in case a tech needs to come look at the lines), way faster speed and less congestion.

I'd go with shaw because telus are a bunch of tards.

[Royal_Phunk]

ive had shaw forever no problems. I like the extreme speed interschvuntzen crazy fast and depending on where you are and the node is .. rediculously fast.

[decypher]

Shaw throttles bittorrents making the uploads really slow. Just so you know

[Royal_Phunk]

not if you change your port to something un default but still within the range of working. But yeh if your downloading 30 movies they will be able to see. I can still get 1mb/s a second from torrents.

[ppcock]

you have bandwidth caps that's about it.

Extreme and highspeed caps are rediculosly high but lightspeed is ass.

[crookedking]

Originally Posted by ebbomega

Pedophiles giving kids candy to get them to come into their van are no better than pedophiles who don't....

yeah they are. i know if i was a little kid who was going to get molested, i'd definately want something sweet to ease the pain.

[optimum sound]

The telus cap is about 100 gigs a month. Somehow I managed to pull that off in 2 weeks once.

Originally Posted by stringbeans

unless you're doing MASSIVE downloading (and i mean a lot), it really doesnt matter. apparently telus doesnt give you a cap on bandwidth or something, but im with shaw and i download a lot of movies + music as well as play games online so you can imagine the bandwidth i go through.

but yeah, either or is fine just for casual browsing and downloading. in your sitch i'd go with telus just to get free shit.

[clevich]

Originally Posted by stringbeans

i dont think they throttle against torrents, but just the port that most torrent programs use. try downloading a torrent program that randomly chooses a new port every time, or atleast lets you change the port. im with shaw and my torrent downloads are pretty fast

Originally Posted by decypher

Shaw throttles bittorrents making the uploads really slow. Just so you know

na, they block the packets, not the port. programs like utorrent are starting to encrypt their packets so shit like this can pass through. www.utorrent.com

[decypher]

^know of another program like that for osx?

[ppcock]

Originally Posted by optimum sound

The telus cap is about 100 gigs a month. Somehow I managed to pull that off in 2 weeks once.

at a whopping 50K/sec?

hah :)

[C_squared]

Originally Posted by ppcock

shaw: you can get a home bundle that includes highspeed, free antivirus, free service calls (in case a tech needs to come look at the lines), way faster speed and less congestion.

too bad their anti virus and firewall software sucks some major ass.

[clevich]

Originally Posted by ppcock

at a whopping 50K/sec?

hah :)

mmm.. more like 174kb/s on their residential 1.5/768 line. IMO telus has better quality bw. you can get upto 300-400kb/s on their business lines, just a tad costly ;). I'm thinking of switching over to the Xtreme-I, can you quote me a price which includes modem rental,shaw inet line,basic cable vs modem purchase/inet/basic cable?

[esoter1c]

Originally Posted by ppcock

at a whopping 50K/sec?

hah :)

Shaw propaganda minister @ work.

[clevich]

Originally Posted by decypher

^know of another program like that for osx?

http://www.afterdawn.com/software/p2...nt_for_mac.cfm

azureus for macosx

[pbreak]

Originally Posted by sidekick

okay, so i'm moving at the end of april and have to hook up high speed internet at my new place. just wondering what you guys think of shaw vs. telus internet.

right now i have shaw and it's good, but i wanted to hear some people's thoughts on telus. just to see if i want to switch.

both plans are about 39.99/month.

Here's the real issue.. to get ADSL you MUST have a telus home phone line as well... so if you only use a cell phone the choice is obvious.

I've never had a problem with my cable connection and although I really don't know the speed difference between the two and don't even care to look, cable is plenty fast... besides, most of the time the download speed is dictated by the download site and not your connection anyway.

[sidekick]

^yeah, i have a telus cell phone, but not a landline.

i'm probably going to go with shaw.

[ppcock]

the shaw secure does suck major balls.. you have to uninstall all virus software
but have you ever looked at f-secure's site?! they're the leading company in antivirus software.
Secure does suck.. but F-secure is amazing software.