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shadow puppet of a posted:Can you blame him though? Its not easy keeping up with the Lance Cogeco's and Jeffry Chatr's of the world. He was only the 9th highest paid CEO in Canada last year. 9th!
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I already use shaw wifi more than anything on my phone.
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Reverse Centaur posted:I already use shaw wifi more than anything on my phone. I'm not going to be caught dead switching back to loving Shaw internet, so I don't use their hotspots.
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Dec 17, 2015 01:08
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Anyone using Koodo in downtown Toronto? I'm thinking of jumping ship to their 5gb data plan 300 minute calling plan since I go over my 2GB Virgin data cap regularly. Today I got the warning that I have 200mb left for December and I'm kind of ready to just find something that won't hamstring me. I forget what I'm paying base right now but I'm trying to keep it around $100/mo
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Martytoof posted:Anyone using Koodo in downtown Toronto? Yeah. You know where I live and work from the Toronto thread. Perfect service everywhere I go downtown. LTE on the 11th floor hits around 20-30mbit, at ground level I've speedtested around 60-70mbps. There's this weird data dead zone at King and University during rush hour but that's probably due to congestion. In fact, other than that, I can't remember a single time I've lost Koodo signal in Toronto other than obviously the subway and deep parking garages. It even works better in parts of my office building than the office WiFi does and we have some pretty beastly APs. So I would say it's good. I've been with them a bit over a year now. Can't really beat the price for big-3 service, then again I am on the SKMB plan so YMMV.
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Anyhow so what will the name be now Robeshus? Rawbelus? Roawbeus? Robelawus? I never was too comfortable with Bell getting three letters while the others get two.
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They're not going to cancel any upgrades to the network just yet, because the deal isn't going to close until the upgrades are half done.Pivo posted:Anyhow so what will the name be now I figured they got two and a half since L also applies to Telus. And the right answer is Shrobelus, because it sounds like an evil lich queen.
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The Four Horsemen. But not in the Pestilence, War, Famine, and Death sense but in the Ric Flair, Arn Anderson, Ole Anderson and Tully Blanchard meaning. Rogers being Flair (Being the dirtiest player in the game and all) and Bell being Arn with Ole as Telus given their fake kinship in LTE partnership. Shawind gets the Tully role.
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Dec 17, 2015 01:44
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mediaphage posted:the right answer is Shrobelus,
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CLAM DOWN posted:I'm not going to be caught dead switching back to loving Shaw internet, so I don't use their hotspots. Funny how different experiences are. I'd say the same about Telus and have been happy with Shaw.
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Dec 17, 2015 02:08
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I'm on Teksavvy and couldn't be happier, after experiencing Shaw's bullshit for years. I checked their packages too, I'd be paying double what I am now if I switched back.
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I have Shaw gigabit fiber unlimited, should I be worried?
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DocCynical posted:I have Shaw gigabit fiber unlimited, should I be worried? ... About what? I wonder if the new Canadian government will quash this deal. Harper-era lackeys probably would, I'd think.
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I'm on the 5GB MB/SK Koodo plan and I get great coverage everywhere. They're Telus's "budget" brand so they use the same towers as Telus.
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eXXon posted:... About what? Everyone is making GBS threads all over Shaw, I'm just wondering if I am missing something and am close to getting screwed or whatever.
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DocCynical posted:Everyone is making GBS threads all over Shaw, I'm just wondering if I am missing something and am close to getting screwed or whatever. I've been with Shaw for a decade and pretty happy with them in BC, Alberta and Manitoba. Closest thing to a complaint I have is getting lots of calls offering me cable TV for an extra $14/month.
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CLAM DOWN posted:I'm not going to be caught dead switching back to loving Shaw internet, so I don't use their hotspots. Just find a bro who will add your devices to his account's WiFi whitelist for a sixer. That's what the wife and I did and she survives with an old, cheap 50MB data plan because she's always near a hot spot or using the home connection. CLAM DOWN posted:I'm on Teksavvy and couldn't be happier, after experiencing Shaw's bullshit for years. I checked their packages too, I'd be paying double what I am now if I switched back. I joined Teksavvy a few months ago and it's been terrible. I get 2% of advertised speeds, when I get a connection at all, many days between 6pm and 11pm. Unfortunately, I'm using a $20 Craigslist Zyxel modem exploited to use bridge mode so I don't know if it's the line or the modem. My choices are 1) buy a new $130 modem from Teksavvy and if the connection is still poo poo I have to eat it, or 2) tell Tek to call in the Telus line inspectors and if they don't find anything wrong I'm stuck with the $150 bill and THEN have to try the $130 modem route. I hate Shaw and Telus but I'm still pissed.
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Dillbag posted:I joined Teksavvy a few months ago and it's been terrible. I get 2% of advertised speeds, when I get a connection at all, many days between 6pm and 11pm. Where are you located? I'm having the same problem on TekSavvy (on a Telus Zyxel and a Telus ALU) at the same times of day here in Victoria. When I called last night, the tech support person told me they've been getting a few of these reports in "the BC area". Today I checked it around 6pm and it was great. Then it was poo poo after that, until 11pm. Is Telus overprovisioning and loving over TekSavvy somehow?
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Weird how different our experiences can be, I guess. My speeds with Teksavvy consistently exceed what I pay for, and I never have any problems at any time of day. I have the DCM475 modem, and my building is quite new (2012), probably helps.
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Teksavvy is almost always over provisioned due to the fact they can't afford extra space in the POI for their customers. This has been a long time issue with all the resellers.
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CLAM DOWN posted:Weird how different our experiences can be, I guess. My speeds with Teksavvy consistently exceed what I pay for, and I never have any problems at any time of day. I have the DCM475 modem, and my building is quite new (2012), probably helps. My building is oldish, like 1970's construction, and TekSavvy cable thru what normally is Shaw is pretty excellent. My Internet was running terribly for a while, and me and my roommate thought our Internet was poo poo and we're going to switch, but we decided to buy a new router first. Lo and behold, a new router fixed our problem. I wouldn't be surprised that an old rear end modem could have the same effect
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sbaldrick posted:Teksavvy is almost always over provisioned due to the fact they can't afford extra space in the POI for their customers. This has been a long time issue with all the resellers. I thought with aggregate POI this is no longer a problem. Instead of a bunch of individual connections from a TSI POI to the Rogers last mile, there's just one fat pipe between Rogers and TSI. I was told that local POIs are no longer a thing. Of course this is just Ontario and rCable, I have no idea about sCable or vCable or anything else. Anyhow, the slow speeds guy was talking about DSL I believe, not cable. DSL is finicky at best and many things can cause problems - poorly shielded copper on Bell's end, poorly shielded/installed/etc copper on your end, distance to the DSLAM, quality of the modem... DSL has always been hit or miss for me too. Cable with TSI has always been great for me, EXCEPT when Rogers fucks up and we have to call them out to fix their last mile - that's always a bitch - but TSI's network has been solid.  Paying for 150/15, not too shabby eh
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Experiences with TSI will literally vary from neighbourhood from neighbourhood and between DSL and Cable. It all depends on who's infanstructure they are using and how old it is.
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experienceBeej posted:Where are you located? I'm having the same problem on TekSavvy (on a Telus Zyxel and a Telus ALU) at the same times of day here in Victoria. Commercial Drive area of Vancouver in a 10 year old duplex. Good to know it isn't just me. I found one report of my version of the airport express having problems with pppoe but it doesn't explain why it's always exactly at the same time every night. And it's definitely fine during the day, I've been off work for the last 2 weeks and would know if it wasn't. Back on topic, I hope Wind keeps their US roaming prices. It's the only reason I'm still with them.
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Lol if you think that Shaw isn't going to gently caress you over before long.
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Wind didn't have the assets or enough pull with creditors to get the kind of capital financing needed to advance much further in a reasonable time table vs its competitors...but yeah it feels like a pyrrhic victory considering that Shaw will probably butcher their value.
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I'm guessing Shaw and Rogers will do some sort of swap or deal and Shaw will focus on building towers in the West and Rogers in the East ala Bellus dealings
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mediaphage posted:Just desperately hoping that it doesn't simply end up being the fourth option with all the same plans, now. I fully expect it. It was nice having "unlimited" (5gb) data and unlimited talk and text for $30 while it lasted, I guess...  shadow puppet of a posted:The Four Horsemen. But not in the Pestilence, War, Famine, and Death sense but in the Ric Flair, Arn Anderson, Ole Anderson and Tully Blanchard meaning. Rogers being Flair (Being the dirtiest player in the game and all) and Bell being Arn with Ole as Telus given their fake kinship in LTE partnership. Shawind gets the Tully role. The Cartel™. (wrestling-wise, I always liked "The Legion of Doom", myself) Rogers delenda est Mister Facetious fucked around with this message at 03:47 on Dec 18, 2015 |
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Mister Macys posted:I fully expect it. That's pretty much the only reason to stay with them  I"m going to hate having to play double for half as much data
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Seriously the affordability is the only reason why I'm still with Wind. Bad coverage be damned.
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If I outright buy a Moto X Play from any of the carriers, all I need to do is unlock it and my Mobilicity SIM should work fine right?
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This past week I switched from Mobilicity to Wind because Roger's data network is loving terrible, only to find out that Wind doesn't give me reception anywhere in my apartment.  I finally nutted up and switched to the Koodo $48 SK/MB plan and ported my number over. 
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McGavin posted:This past week I switched from Mobilicity to Wind because Roger's data network is loving terrible, only to find out that Wind doesn't give me reception anywhere in my apartment. Ahahaha what? Rogers' data network isn't terrible, though the part of it you use as a customer of Mobilicity (post-acquisition) might be. The two cannot remotely be compared, and Rogers' network is loving amazing compared to the awful shitshow that is Wind's. Good to know the Koodo plan trick is still working; I'm going to try it when I get back home from holiday traveling.
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Bad things about Rogers: prices, customer service, level of giving a poo poo, speed of update approvals, basically everything Amazing things about Rogers: their network speed/quality/coverage
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Pro: Roam like Home is actually not a scam and works as advertised. Con: All the stuff that makes you able to call that a pro.
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mediaphage posted:Ahahaha what? Rogers' data network isn't terrible, though the part of it you use as a customer of Mobilicity (post-acquisition) might be. The two cannot remotely be compared, and Rogers' network is loving amazing compared to the awful shitshow that is Wind's. The Rogers network they put the Mobilicity customers on is absolutely horrible. Also Roger's network in western Canada is nowhere near as good as it is in the east. McGavin fucked around with this message at 06:35 on Dec 21, 2015 |
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McGavin posted:The Rogers network they put the Mobilicity customers on is absolutely horrible. Hahaha did they actually put Mobilicity customers on a different network, what the gently caress
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CLAM DOWN posted:Hahaha did they actually put Mobilicity customers on a different network, what the gently caress Yeah, they put Mobilicity customers on the 3G roaming network.
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Weren't Mobilicity customers mostly using handsets on different frequencies? (AWS, etc) I don't know how much tower sharing they and Rogers were doing before the buyout but I can imagine the experience being different between the two sets of customers for some time. Not that I have any evidence that this is the case - even if they did already transition everything properly, McGavin's would still have the problem that Rogers has worse network quality in the West than they do in the East.
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Dallan Invictus posted:Weren't Mobilicity customers mostly using handsets on different frequencies? (AWS, etc) I don't know how much tower sharing they and Rogers were doing before the buyout but I can imagine the experience being different between the two sets of customers for some time. Mobilicity and Wind phones use different frequencies from any of the other carriers, so their customers can't use Rogers' main network to begin with. I had to get a new phone to switch to Koodo.
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