pkphilip

The Telus wireless gateway has multiple disconnect issues and very little things you can do about it. I would avoid that caz if you by any chance have a bad one, you need to have a long chat with Telus before they will replace it.

I have way too many clients given a run-around with Telus. So many cases where my clients ask me to check the NIC on the computer and they are in fact fine. Also, their eProtect and e-advisor is a load of garbage.

Ever since Shaw has the 50% speed increase and power-boost, my download can go over 1.5Mb/s in any time. Torrents now can get over 600kb/s most of the time. I am more than happy to stay with Shaw. Still, Shaw Secure sucks.

Let's put it this way, unless Telus can move up the turtle speed from 1.5M line to 3M, they will be losing A LOT of business. 1.5M is so far behind the North American standard (based on Speedtest.net). Even an iPhone 3G tethering is faster than Telus ADSL.

Philip

pkphilip

I was playing around one day by encrypting my downloads (SSL connection), I got over 24Mbps... :-)

From that, we can see that Shaw does throttle traffic.

Philip

pkphilip

Compare to other places, we are still far behind... sigh...

Philip

pkphilip

Since Shaw throttle traffic, you can prevent throttling by encrypting the packets. I use usenet a lot, and I subscribe to usenet servers with SSL, when I download large files like Windows 7, I can pull the files at 18Mb/s for about 3-4 min, then constant at 8Mb/s when the modem caps kick in.

Philip

pkphilip

I just have standard high-speed, can't justify to get Xtreme-I. If I get higher-speed, I will most likely will be adding another 2TB storage into my 2.5TB system already.

8Mb (megabit) is constant.

Usenet is my favorite because it is not monitored by Shaw at all. I went over 80GB on usenet and the usage wasn't even registered on the usage log.

Philip