Shaw users in Canada

[silverpig]

I'm on Extreme-I for cable and we got a bump to 10/1 today for free. Hurray!

I think the standard users get 7/1 (former Extreme-I speeds) too, but I'm not sure.

 

[Iron Woode]

Rogers here in London gave us Express users a free speed boost to 5/384 from 3/384.

I am considering Extreme.

 

[sandorski]

do Lite users(me) get anything?

Hmm, maybe i'll check it out for myself....

....doesn't seem like it

 

[dighn]

Originally posted by: silverpig
I'm on Extreme-I for cable and we got a bump to 10/1 today for free. Hurray!

I think the standard users get 7/1 (former Extreme-I speeds) too, but I'm not sure.

that happened for me like half a year ago

the monthly traffic allocation also got doubled (60gb regular, 100gb extreme-I)

I <3 shaw now

 

[imported_LoKe]

How much do you pay for Shaw?

 

[dighn]

Originally posted by: LoKe
How much do you pay for Shaw?

$43 canadian. but there's a bundle.

 

[imported_LoKe]

Originally posted by: dighn

Originally posted by: LoKe
How much do you pay for Shaw?

$35 canadian. bundle pricing.

It's cable, not DSL, right? Is it available in all Ontario (London)? :shocked:

 

[dighn]

Originally posted by: LoKe

Originally posted by: dighn

Originally posted by: LoKe
How much do you pay for Shaw?

$35 canadian. bundle pricing.

It's cable, not DSL, right? Is it available in all Ontario (London)? :shocked:

my mistake it's not 35. actually 43. but it's part of a bundle so I always remembered the equivalent price... anway it's cable. shaw is west only as far as I know

 

[dawks]

Originally posted by: dighn

Originally posted by: LoKe

Originally posted by: dighn

Originally posted by: LoKe
How much do you pay for Shaw?

$35 canadian. bundle pricing.

It's cable, not DSL, right? Is it available in all Ontario (London)? :shocked:

my mistake it's not 35. actually 43. but it's part of a bundle so I always remembered the equivalent price... anway it's cable. shaw is west only as far as I know

West to Thunderbay.

Its $43 via renting the modem, but if you buy it its $38.. and on a package deal with tv it works out to more like $28... also the extreme-I is an extra $10 a month so its $48/month CND for 10/1mbit with 100gigs alotted.

I've been raping newsgroups getting 1.2megabytes a second.. it owns.. a gigabyte of data takes 14 minutes!

 

[silverpig]

Originally posted by: dighn

Originally posted by: silverpig
I'm on Extreme-I for cable and we got a bump to 10/1 today for free. Hurray!

I think the standard users get 7/1 (former Extreme-I speeds) too, but I'm not sure.

that happened for me like half a year ago

the monthly traffic allocation also got doubled (60gb regular, 100gb extreme-I)

I <3 shaw now

Well extreme-I was originally 5/1 but several months ago it got upped to 7/1. Just a few months ago we got our monthly bandwidth "restriction" upped to 100 GB. This 10/1 thing is new for all shaw users (check out the dslreports.com forum for shaw).

shrug

 

[clickynext]

I have regular Shaw, how do I tell its been bumped, and what do those numbers (7/1) represent?

 

[Pepsi90919]

Originally posted by: LoKe

Originally posted by: dighn

Originally posted by: LoKe
How much do you pay for Shaw?

$35 canadian. bundle pricing.

It's cable, not DSL, right? Is it available in all Ontario (London)? :shocked:

do you ever get out of london? lol

 

[Pepsi90919]

and yeah cogeco got a speed increase as well

 

[silverpig]

Originally posted by: clickynext
I have regular Shaw, how do I tell its been bumped, and what do those numbers (7/1) represent?

Pull the power cord on your cable modem and then plug it back in. Then go to speakeasy.net and do one of their speed tests. 7/1 refers to the download/upload speed in megabits per second (Mbit/s or Mbps). Speakeasy will give it to you in kbits so you should be 7000/1000 (more realisitically around 6900/950 or so).

 

[clickynext]

Originally posted by: silverpig

Originally posted by: clickynext
I have regular Shaw, how do I tell its been bumped, and what do those numbers (7/1) represent?

Pull the power cord on your cable modem and then plug it back in. Then go to speakeasy.net and do one of their speed tests. 7/1 refers to the download/upload speed in megabits per second (Mbit/s or Mbps). Speakeasy will give it to you in kbits so you should be 7000/1000 (more realisitically around 6900/950 or so).

lol, I got 2/0.5

 

[NathanBWF]

Is this Canada wide?!? I'm on there site right now and it still says 7Mbps for Extreme-I (which I have)...

 

[silverpig]

Originally posted by: NathanBWF
Is this Canada wide?!? I'm on there site right now and it still says 7Mbps for Extreme-I (which I have)...

Apparently it is. And yeah the site hasn't been updated, but do a test after rebooting your modem and see.

 

[NathanBWF]

Originally posted by: silverpig

Originally posted by: NathanBWF
Is this Canada wide?!? I'm on there site right now and it still says 7Mbps for Extreme-I (which I have)...

Apparently it is. And yeah the site hasn't been updated, but do a test after rebooting your modem and see.

Sweet! :beer:

 

[mwtgg]

LOL, you guys have caps. Enjoy them.

 

[silverpig]

Originally posted by: mwtgg
LOL, you guys have caps. Enjoy them.

They're not hard caps. They're 'guidelines' for appropriate use... and for some reason it doesn't count newsgroup downloads

 

[WobbleWobble]

Originally posted by: silverpig

Originally posted by: mwtgg
LOL, you guys have caps. Enjoy them.

They're not hard caps. They're 'guidelines' for appropriate use... and for some reason it doesn't count newsgroup downloads

They count, I've been caught for excessive bandwidth mainly from using Shaw's own news servers.

 

[silverpig]

Originally posted by: WobbleWobble

Originally posted by: silverpig

Originally posted by: mwtgg
LOL, you guys have caps. Enjoy them.

They're not hard caps. They're 'guidelines' for appropriate use... and for some reason it doesn't count newsgroup downloads

They count, I've been caught for excessive bandwidth mainly from using Shaw's own news servers.

I had a month where I pulled 212 GB off of my giganews account, and shaw's stats have me at 60 GB for the month...

 

[Aquaman]

I wish telus would give me a speed boost for free

Cheers,
Aquaman

 

[silverpig]

You'll just have to be creative Aquaman

 

[Aquaman]

Originally posted by: silverpig
You'll just have to be creative Aquaman

will my wireless Z^2 router reach from South Van to Surrey

Cheers,
Aquaman