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Zartans Lady Mask posted:Are there any ISPs I should know about in Vancouver, other than Telus, Shaw and Teksavvy? It looks like Bell and Rogers don't operate here? Depends where you live in Vancouver there are quite a few ftth services and some buildings have telus 100 mbit Ethernet service it really depends on where you live. Telus is the best tv provider but also the worst internet provider. Teksavvy cable is always the best price for mbit/cap because they off the 25/2.5 unlimited for 45 if you cant get any of the fiber or ethernet service providers.
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Zartans Lady Mask posted:I found Telus internet to be pretty good, aside from the fact it's twice as expensive as it should be and the router they force you to use sucks a dick. Telus internet is okay if you get the stuff that optik is on because their tv service goes over it so people would complain a lot of it was down at all so its up almost all the time same with shaws because it does all the digital cable stuff now but the cable stuff gets better price/speed. Just dont get lovely telus dsl the normal phone line stuff its junk.
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Aug 18, 2014 07:09
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Squibbles posted:Shaw's always been good to me but I just moved and I've never seen congestion this bad before. I'm paying for a 100mbps which I get in the mornings but in the evening the speed drops to 5mbps. As long as you dont order normal dsl and get the fast dsl/tv stuff its usually okay.
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Sep 18, 2014 15:26
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Mederlock posted:How do people find Telus' Optik internet versus the cable providers in their areas? I do like TekSavvy, especially the part where I'm not giving the incumbent telecom companies more money, but it sometimes has intermittent packet-loss and speed issues. I've used both they are about the same internet wise but the telus optik stuff lets you get tv if you want tv teksavvy doesn't let you get tv.
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Sep 18, 2014 20:26
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Coxswain Balls posted:
Shaw charges overages but forcing upgrades in your plan. If you constantly go over your limit they will force you into that auto upgrade thing i know i was told this by shaw and was forced to switch to teksavvy because of shaws outrageous prices.
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Sep 24, 2014 18:57
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Zartans Lady Mask posted:Telus Optik internet has served me so well for the past year, but then i move apartments and it starts looking like this. Yeah unless you have the TV service you are going to have a bad time with telus. But even in apartments you aren't going to have ideal telus usually because they overload the nodes.
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Oct 6, 2014 06:01
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whiskas posted:I'm in Calgary, given the news with Shaw, if I'm looking to jump to another provider which will seems the best in terms of consistency/reliability of service and ping? The teksavvy cable/dsl stuff is as reliable as the telus/shaw infrastructure in the area so if you are happy with your shaw service other then the price swtich to the cable package. The teksavvy cable unlimited package is from what i recall $10 cheaper then the dsl package at $45 for 25 unlimited for cable vs 55 for 25 unlimited for dsl.
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Dec 19, 2014 09:16
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ToxicFrog posted:My question has always been "why the gently caress is dryloop so much more expensive than just getting local voice service". Ah because the incumbent Telecom and complicated business crap about paying for the lines in the ground.
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Dec 21, 2014 00:05
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priznat posted:Fuckin' PoCo Well PoCo only has it because the city paid for it itself and deployed it itself without telus doing anything for it.
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Jan 13, 2015 23:23
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Volguus posted:Heh, Windsor. If the mayor of a city wants to do it. Its quite easy to setup a municipal fiber company and do it within a term.
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Jan 30, 2015 21:45
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Volguus posted:That google team has been in Kitchener for quite a while (few years at least). I would be curious to hear what would CRTC have to say against it though. Aren't there any other city-owned fibre in Canada? Yes there are a few like Port Coquitlam.
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Jan 30, 2015 22:38
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Kreez posted:Well I'm finally going to switch from the garbage Shaw network over to the Telus FTTN network. Tired of not being able to stream in HD at peak hours. How you could be having problems with the shaw network? its the most reliable/fastest home network in the lower mainland.
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Feb 1, 2015 00:59
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Kreez posted:I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or not, but my speeds for down to 6-8Mbit/s from 4pm onwards, and this seems to be accepted as a normal part of dealing with Shaw in older neighbourhoods. Sounds like bad wiring from either inside your house or to the road junction box. Or the circuit is so overloaded that there just isnt enough spare bandwidth but that is not the normal experience for shaw across most of the lower mainland from the 5 or 6 locations i've had it installed and used it.
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Feb 1, 2015 02:03
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priznat posted:About 10 years ago I called shaw's support line because my cable modem was crapping out. The tech asked me if it was raining there. I said "is that important?" He said yes it sometimes causes problems with their equipment. That's standard diagnosis for older homes with bad cables in the ground.
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Feb 1, 2015 02:46
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priznat posted:Do they run cable hookups underground? I've only seen them have overhead wires. Depends on the house i know my parents cable hookup goes under the ground same with their telephone both have been replaced in the last 10 years because of this exact problem.
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Feb 1, 2015 02:50
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Acer Pilot posted:wild rear end guess but maybe the telus office in vancouver is some important hub for their service. Yeah that knocks out the ah Harbour Center sometimes but that should have all the backups because its a backbone of the internet type building.
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Feb 1, 2015 03:36
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slidebite posted:Yeah, that's true but you do get a discount for a new client... $20 or something..? Not like that would probably make a difference to you in your situation. You can probably pick up modem for a bit cheaper though if that helps. Well the only reason to go with teksavvy is to get unlimited internet for a reasonable price you have to go with telus/shaw to get tv.
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Feb 6, 2015 07:36
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less than three posted:Even then Telus doesn't care if you exceed the bandwith allocation. Or if you're in ETTH/FTTH they literally don't track your bandwidth usage. Well you can get 50 down from teksavvy on cable even 100 from what i recall depending on the area.
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Feb 6, 2015 08:12
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infernal machines posted:Frankly, in Ontario at least Teksavvy's service (both the actual internet service and the support provided for it) has not been that great for some time. Well their service is only as good as the company providing it.
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Feb 7, 2015 08:12
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infernal machines posted:Yes, this is a problem, but it doesn't need to be my problem. It's like every other thing they blame on the incumbents from missed service visits, to botched installs, to major network fixes that take literal weeks to resolve, if they have so little control over their own business then why am I using them? Its only as good and reliable as the incumbents allow it to be.
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Mar 5, 2015 22:13
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Skandranon posted:And they have a screenshot of a 90mb Harry Potter MOV file. How did they even find something so old? I bet that a trailer from apple for the movie not a pirated copy.
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Apr 11, 2015 22:55
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slidebite posted:Noticing my evening 25/5 DSL is really taking a dump the last few nights in particular. Seems fine in the lower mainland. 
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Apr 15, 2015 09:48
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Mantle posted:Ok, so I will be moving to Richmond, BC next month and am thinking of trying out Teksavvy DSL for the first time. Is there anyone out there that has a DSL modem that will work with them they aren't using and wants to sell it? Bonus if you are local. Did you check out the Cable service? It will allow you to get better/cheaper service.
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Apr 16, 2015 00:13
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StealthArcher posted:So, looking at who's available as options when I get my own single apartment instead of rooming. Anyone ever heard of or tried unmetered.ca? They look like a chinese run telus/shaw reseller given their location, service areas and tv channels displayed on that front page.
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Apr 16, 2015 12:13
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StealthArcher posted:That's 2am, you're waaaaaay out of anything approaching 'peaktime'. Try doing it again around 6-9pm your time and see then. 
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Apr 17, 2015 02:15
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8ender posted:I think the only way Google could competitively do it here would be to team up with a company like Wind and actually help them build out their network. Well give n the foreign limits on investment moblicity would be a better choice.
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Apr 26, 2015 20:44
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8ender posted:I'd just want to see how Bell and Rogers would justify the new 100 mbit no caps plans they'd roll out in the Google Fiber areas in light of all the QQ'ing they did to the CRTC over wholesale pricing. Well thats exactly what the 3 large american companies do every time google fiber is about to roll out to a new city.
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Apr 27, 2015 07:05
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quote:Wednesday, May 6 & Thursday, May 7 between 2 am and 6 am It looks like teksavvy is going to be upgrading their hardware these days to solve the telus issue.
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May 6, 2015 17:38
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Sappo569 posted:Hi fellow Canadian Goons, Well check what's available in your building depending on the location in Toronto there are some decent fibre solutions but otherwise teksavvy is usually cheapest.
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May 7, 2015 22:43
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infernal machines posted:This has not been true for quite some time now, for any speed tier. Why would you pirate anything speed affects many more things then that .It is easy as poo poo to blow those 100 gig caps on netflix alone by yourself let alone with other people using your internet. They are almost always the cheapest for unlimited cap/bandwidth combined unless you need upload.
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May 7, 2015 23:34
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StealthArcher posted:So Telus gave us a runaround and surprise, 100 osmt available, only 25. Shaws cable service is usually quite reliable but their prices are undesirable now that they have switched over to the digital cable stuff.
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May 15, 2015 15:19
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Tagra posted:I waffled between posting here or in the haus, but it's kinda Telus specific so maybe you guys have some immediate ideas. We've got Optik and the lovely Actiontec V1000H modem/router that comes with it. We want to set up a dedicated server for smaller games like Terraria so that friends could log in and tinker even if we weren't playing at the time, but unless we're using a tunnelling program our friends can't connect to it at all. Everything is set up properly, and sites like yougetsignal even report the ports as open and the server records the hit from them, but external connections are still bounced and we have to tunnel them into the LAN. Google suggests this is common with the Actiontec piece of crap and it's simply impossible because of the way it's set up by Telus. http://telusinternet.blogspot.ca/2012/10/using-your-own-router-in-tandem-with.html You can set it up in bridge mode if you want to use another router.
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