[Discuss] Shaw problems/slow?

[Daniel M German]

 Alan> On 2007-12-24 07:08-0800 brent sirna wrote:
 >>> On Dec 23, 2007 11:36 PM, Daniel M German <dmgerman at uvic.ca> wrote:
 >>>> Has anybody else have problems with their shaw connection?
 >> 
 >> HI,
 >> 
 >> If I encounter speed problems with my Internet connection the first
 >> thing I do is pop over to www.speedtest.net and check my connection. I
 >> use the Vancouver test site as my reference. Now I just tried my
 >> connection an I got the following readings.
 >> 
 >> Download 26.3 MB/s
 >> Upload 972 KB/s


 Alan> Because of the download speed for Shaw depends on local population density
 Alan> and time of day, I have attributed the declining speed problems to Shaw
 Alan> network bottlenecks for certain neighbourhoods.  I am not talking about the
 Alan> bandwidth of the cable attached to individual houses here.  Instead, I am
 Alan> talking about the bandwidth of the link or links used to transport the
 Alan> combined neighbourhood cable bandwidth to Shaw's Victoria office.  For lack
 Alan> of a better term, I will call this the Shaw infrastructure bandwidth, and it
 Alan> appears from the consistently declining speed that in our neighbourhood and
 Alan> until last month they had not improved that since they installed the service
 Alan> almost a decade ago.

 Alan> That said, it turns out that Shaw is capable of improving their local
 Alan> infrastructure bandwidth, and that has recently happened for the Glanford
 Alan> district. I am now getting consistent 300-500KB/s download speeds from good
 Alan> sites during most of the day with a drop to maybe 100KB/s during the
 Alan> critical hours after work.  This is a huge improvement over what I was
 Alan> getting a month ago.

Last night and today the connection has improved. It wasn't even a
problem of bandwidth, rather, connection failures. Many Web pages
would just time out.

Today I run the "Speedtest": I am getting around 3kbs
(~300kB/s). I'll have to keep an eye on it.

But I certainly agree and I'll try to push Shaw to give us a "better" service.



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