[Discuss] Shaw regular average speed vs. Telus?

[Adam Parkin]

Consolidated replies below...

Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> playing bandwidth-intensive games, but I am not.  My last ordinary phone
> modem was 14.4 Kbits/s = 1.8Kbytes/s so I continue to be grateful that Shaw
> is as fast as it is.

My *first* modem was a 14.4 and I used it for a good 6 years before 
trading up to high-speed (well, technically I was on a 50Kbps one for 
about a month before going to high speed).  Ahh, the good old days of 
BBS's and the like.  Legend Of the Red Dragon anyone? =8->


Murray Strome wrote:

> I usually average about 80-90MBS with Shaw for downloads. An awful lot 
> depends upon the load on the server from which I am doing the download.

Woah, hold on a second, 80-90 *MBS*?  As in megaBYTES per second?  As in 
you download a 700MB iso file in less than 10 seconds?

I'm definitely with the wrong ISP if that's the case. =8-p


Scott Petersen wrote:
> range. Remember, this was with regular Shaw service at the time. Shaw's
> download speed has gone up for their regular service and their extreme
> package is even faster. I now live in New Westminster and I regularly see
> 1000 KB/s download with extreme. I think the best that Telus offers is 6
> mbps (approx 550-600 KB/s) for the same price point.

1000 KB/s!!?!?!?  Holy fsck, I really am with the wrong ISP. =8-D

Just out of curiosity, how do BitTorrent transfers go with Shaw?  I 
originally heard that Shaw was throttling BitTorrent traffic, do they do 
this, and if so, how much so?

On a related note to that, although I don't know if it's applicable to 
the original poster, Shaw's monthly bandwidth limits are *much* higher 
than Telus' (with standard Telus DSL you get 30GB of traffic "allowed", 
although I've gone well over 100GB in a month and never had any complaints).

> On another note, I have received great service from Shaw when they do
> installs or something is broken. My experience with Telus for my phone is
> not as good. Not really bad but I would choose Shaw between the two.

Very true.  Telus has a standard "just release and renew your IP 
address" or "just power-cycle your router" stance that is very annoying 
(and rarely solves any problems).  *Every* time I've called Telus 
support I have had problems (and no solutions).

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