ISP choices

[sabbySC]

Are there any other ISP choices locally, other than Shaw and Telus? I'm thinking a change may be in order, but I don't know my choices. I know alot of you are techies and maybe someone here knows something I don't.

[MusicalGenius]

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Business, personal, in town, in the boonies?

[RONDAL]

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What are your requirements, how much do you download/upload, when do you do it, etc? You want TV as well with it?

[sabbySC]

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personal, 150gb/month minimum, located downtown, no tv.

Google tells me I'm pretty much stuck with shaw as telus doesn't offer better than high speed in my area at 8mbps max

[cam_wmh]

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personal, 150gb/month minimum, located downtown, no tv.

Google tells me I'm pretty much stuck with shaw as telus doesn't offer better than high speed in my area at 8mbps max

where downtown?

[sabbySC]

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8ave se and 6 st, east village

[aliencurv]

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Yeah I was gonna say shaw. Ur screwed if u care about performance because nothing competes with shaw broadband100 or 50. If ur simply trying to fight the man and just don't want to support telus/shaw then there are local dsl options. But! They go through shaw or telus

[R_Ethug]

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agreed

your pretty much stuck with shaw or telus.. roll the dice..

i'd take shaw over telus.. even with the new pricing its still good.

[longsock]

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agreed

your pretty much stuck with shaw or telus.. roll the dice..

i'd take shaw over telus.. even with the new pricing its still good.

x2

[MusicalGenius]

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They're changing up their tiers in the near future though.

[aliencurv]

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Telus can change all they want. They can't compete with the frequency range of broadband. Dsl was great as a highspeed alternative to dial up. But now it's costing too much for the hardware to increase your speed. You may not see the costs in your monthly bill now, but you will when data transfer is billed.

[Ur0Drivr]

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I'm using Telus right now with optic cable and the connection is much faster than what I had with Shaw and it's less money a month. Plus I got an X-Box in the deal.

[sabbySC]

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It's looking like I will be sticking with Shaw. I was looking around because they continued billing me at an inflated rate even though their pricing has changed months ago. Telus doesn't offer high speed optik in my neighbourhood.

[aliencurv]

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It's looking like I will be sticking with Shaw. I was looking around because they continued billing me at an inflated rate even though their pricing has changed months ago. Telus doesn't offer high speed optik in my neighbourhood.

Call shaw support and complain. They are actually pretty understanding. They have decent ethics regarding billing. I was one of the original 100mb testers. When I had speed issues, they would bill me for a lower teir. Then when the package pricing was changed, I phoned and was put on broadband 100 with new pricing and they deducted the difference.

You just have to ask

[FlyBoy]

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I spent 3 hours over 2 days on hold with shaw to get them to fix my cable. Took 10 days to get a tech over, 5 minutes to fix, turned out they unhooked the wrong house when someone moved. Then 2 more hours today on hold to get a refund on the time I was without service. I asked about a discount, Telus has better TV rates for the channels I want, they said I was not eligible for any discounts on my account and they feel their services are worth what they charge. Then he suggested I package internet and phone with them to save some money. I pointed out I would have been extremely pissed off if I had no phone or internet while the cable was out.

Will be changing over to Telus TV pretty soon, they have 25 Mb Optic TV and Internet now, which will suit me fine. Looking forward to 2 more hours on hold to cancel with Shaw.