We have a Shaw phone though I almost always exclusively use my cell phone. I have both Shaw and Telus for Internet. If you are lucky enough to be able to get Telus fiber there is nothing that can touch that in terms of performance (I get have a 100/20 megabit package, though closer to 90/30 real world) at the under $100 price point. If you care about sending data, Shaw has no package that even comes close at any price point. Otherwise Shaw is really the only choice from a performance perspective.
Telus is more militant about blocking inbound ports whereas Shaw is more lenient (port 80 and 443 for example) in this regard. Telus also enforces their data caps to the megabyte. If you exceed those caps they will bill you for the overages. Again Shaw is a little more lenient in this regard. All of the consumer ISPs here have poor edge connectivity to the rest of the Internet and no IPv6 support. Recently (in the past few months) both Telus and Shaw started peering with Google, which means that GMail and Youtube (not to mention all the sites that use google analytics) performance dramatically improved. Nucleus uses Shaw for their backhaul so I imagine this is also true for them. I loved dealing with Teksaavy though there product was painfully slow here (YMMV). Every time I look at the alternatives I come to the realization that we are lacking in real competition which means that the price performance ratio for these services is going to suck. In the short term you can get deals for retention (when you call and threaten to leave) and for switching. All of these deals are short term and eventually dry up (this is where I am right now). One ISP I have not tried is http://www.connections.ca/. Some of the guys in the OpenBSD crowd have had nice things to say about them. On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 9:49 AM, Wendell Nichols <wc...@shaw.ca> wrote: > I use Shaw for JUST internet, and I use Ooma for my phone. Works great > (with the exception that if there is an internet outage, you also have a > phone outage, but you probably also have a cell?). Ooma allows for lots of > call blocking options, vmail etc. Beats shaw phone in every way for the > princely sum of about $12 a month. > I've dumped cable tv for streaming services. I didn't save much money, > but I was far more interested in avoiding commercials. Now I simply cannot > tolerate normal tv anymore. > wcn > > > On 08/05/2015 05:47 PM, Joe S wrote: > >> I am interested in knowing what phone and internet providers that are >> available in this city. I have been using shaw, but they are charging >> more each bill. What other choices are there? I am looking for a >> landline and broadband internet. Are Shaw and Telus the only choices >> that are reliable? >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> clug-talk mailing list >> clug-talk@clug.ca >> http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca >> Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) >> **Please remove these lines when replying >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > clug-talk@clug.ca > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying >
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