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Mar 10, 06
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telus vs. shaw internet
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. 
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Mar 10, 06
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haha, i knew that was going to happen. i would end up more confused about the decision than i was before.
yeah, i heard about that monitor thing...but that's only if you sign two year or three year contract with them. i might not even be living in my new apartment in three years. probably not actually.
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Mar 10, 06
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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..
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Shaw all the way....
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Mar 10, 06
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Tel-ASS is more lenient with bandwith overuse.
Shaw Xtreme is way faster than anything Tel-ASS has. I'm with Shaw since Tel-ASS doesn't have ADSL where I am in N. Van so they fucked me over good and I lost all my website material becuase it all got deleted because I couldn't tranfser my service.
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Mar 10, 06
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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.
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Mar 10, 06
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go with Telus... 3 year contract-- no problem! I believe its a 'rate protection' plan which is cheaper than Shaw, It'll save you over $100/yr! They'll give you the flat screen monitor which is a sweet deal. (I got a free iPod with my subscription) and if you move they'll move with you.
But if you decide to go with Shaw, just make sure you don't use their firewall or anti virus software... Use your own cause what they give you is wack.
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Mar 10, 06
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Shaww all the way.. I got The new xtreme or w/e line .. and holy shyte its so fast. I get like 200-600kb/s downloads all the time. Ive been through shaw at one place, telus at another, shaw etc etc and Shaw I found best to deal with and this one is so much faster than any DSL line you can get. No brainer
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Mar 10, 06
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big fan of shaw, faster speed, better support, but you have to encrypt your torrents, they use throttling for bittorrent, easily passed soon as you figure how to get by it.
Shaw has been my fav since telus fucked me around...
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Mar 10, 06
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haha we should get the telus drone George in here to pump up the crowd.
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Mar 10, 06
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im on shaw now and my torrent downloading is painfully slow. fucking shaw bastards...i wanna switch over to telus.
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Mar 10, 06
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Telus has shit for customer service.
Once I tried to call them to get a couple things done. Every time I called they'd only ever do one thing at a time. First time it was to cancel, but they instead just settled my balance and didn't bother cancelling my service. The second time they refunded me the money they charged me since I was supposed to cancel. The third time they actually cancelled my account. Their customer service apparently is great if you only want to do one thing at a time. Shaw has been a lot more receptive. Right now we're having some issues with brownouts, but it's only brownouts, never full service disconnections. Back when I was with telus adsl, we'd have the internet be down for days at a time. If you want reliable faster service (I don't care what you say, ADSL is slower) and support that's not outsourced to india, shaw all the way.
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Mar 10, 06
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yeah, i'm on shaw right now and it's fine. i download a lot and i'm fine with the speed and everything. maybe i will stick with shaw.
i don't want to switch to telus and find out what you guys are telling me is true: that telus is slower. ME NEED SPEED. thanks guys.
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Mar 10, 06
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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.
I think that the product itself is pretty much the same at both companies. The thing to keep in mind is who provides better service and who is cheaper. Locking in with telus for 3 years would suck seeing as though they're always restructuring their company but who knows, Shaw could be in the same situation tommorow.
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