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Ceyton posted:At least the USA has pockets of good service here and there. Show me a place in Canada where I can get a fiber circuit to my house for less than the equivalent of a full-time salary. Or even a 20+ mbps unmetered connection. Here in BC telus offers their Optik which is either 19/1 or 25/3 it isn't capped and doesn't have and bandwidth limits.
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Nov 8, 2010 21:51
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frumpsnake posted:Yeah, and it's about the same price as Shaw's lovely 15/1 (125GB) plan that never gave me speeds over 7Mbps. I've tested my connection many times and i always get my 19/1. But i also use it for their TV service and i am able to record the 2 HD channels and 1 SD channel at the same time.
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Nov 8, 2010 23:49
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less than three posted:Optik™ High Speed Yes it says that but it doesn't track it at all on their web page. No traffic what so ever so it nothing is there you can't be billed for it. Anyways it might be because i have the tv stuff too that they aren't monitoring it.  Its like this for every month. I've easily used 200-300 gigs from downloading stuff from steam the first few months and i haven't heard a thing from them or had an overages billed. Sprawl fucked around with this message at 05:12 on Nov 9, 2010 |
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Nov 9, 2010 05:08
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Its always had the 720p movies for me.
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Nov 23, 2010 17:56
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priznat posted:So I just signed up for the Telus Optik High Speed + TV bundle, free PVR rental and XBOX 360. Since I'm paying $57 a month now to shaw for their xtreme-I (15Mbit) paying telus $60 for their 15Mbit and their basic cable seems like a bit of a no brainer. The set top box has a much better interfaces then shaws. the only thing is dont set too many shows to record in prime internet using time or you get sub dsl speeds when doing stuff.
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Jan 17, 2011 22:39
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SeventySeven posted:Follow up to my Telus install: I plugged my computer directly in to the router and my speeds basically doubled from 6Mbit to about 13Mbit. So I guess the wireless on the Actiontec router is kind of poo poo. Either that or I could try change the channel or something, because my building is saturated with wireless signals (downtown Your Telus guy didn't splice the telephone wires into a home network for you? The installer did that for 4 rooms when i had mine installed.
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Feb 23, 2011 00:41
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). It's not a huge deal because I was planning on running ethernet to everywhere it was needed anyway and for $15/month I can't bitch too much.
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less than three posted:I'm on Telus Optik Turbo and occasionally I still have to buffer when watching HD on Youtube. Speeds are fine at the same time to any other site, so I think it's more an issue on Youtube's end rather than Teksavvy/Telus. Well since its regional it might just one of the local mirrors.
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Mar 21, 2011 23:27
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VERTiG0 posted:I'm probably gonna get Teksavvy's dry-loop DSL set up in my new condo when I move in a few weeks. $10.22 is the band rate for my area, so $56.69 all in for the unlimited bandwidth package. Doesn't look like it they only have the 3 modems on their page and they wont likely support others but it looks like the support a lot of different kinds of cable modems.
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Mar 24, 2011 23:52
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Yea those prices are still dumb. I can buy bulk bandwidth at my datacenter for a quarter of that price.
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Mar 29, 2011 16:58
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priznat posted:So I finally got around to logging into my Telus (optik tv+internet) account to setup payment plans etc, and I was checking out the Usage stats. No i don't believe that tracking has ever worked i've had the service for ~8 months now and i've definitely gone over the limit and my traffic has never gone above 0.00 gb.
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Apr 4, 2011 20:41
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priznat posted:Ah that's nice. Are they like shaw was, if there is someone using a large chunk of bandwidth they call them up first rather than just applying charges automatically? Yea and you have to go over 3 months before they even bother you, with shaw that is. I dont know their policy about overages and billing.
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Apr 4, 2011 20:50
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StealthArcher posted:Alright, home issues solved (yay), new issue arises. http://www.canadianisp.ca/cgi-bin/ispsearch.cgi?f=ShowDetail&ispid=115&city=Winnipeg&busper=P&serv_type=ALL&prov=MB That dry loop/dsl look good for the price. There are more then a few of those in the peg.
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May 5, 2011 21:35
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StealthArcher posted:It's capped, so gently caress them, I refuse to support the practice anymore. Okay well these guys have uncapped. http://www.canadianisp.ca/cgi-bin/ispsearch.cgi?f=ShowDetail&ispid=67&city=Winnipeg&busper=P&serv_type=ALL&prov=MB That dry loop is a really good deal if thats a true 5mbit.
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May 5, 2011 23:31
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drcru posted:Did anyone else's Telus bill go up this month? Yea it looks like they did something loving shady as poo poo. They upped the month charges for Optik high speed services $2 and added a back dated charge for last month on this months bill and did a $3 charge for their "essentials" optik tv charge.
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May 11, 2011 23:33
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drcru posted:I don't even have Optik TV, they charged me an extra $1.30+ and then my bill did look higher too. I usually only pay ~$80/month for homephone and 15MB/1MB (which really only gets 12/0.4..) but this month it was ~$85. Login you the telus.com website and look at your current bill internet price.  see if there is a charge like that and then click up top and click previous bill and see if the base price for the service is different. 
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fishmech posted:Why is the upload speed still under a megabit? Because uploading is for pirates.
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May 20, 2011 18:21
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priznat posted:Does anyone know if Telus is actively improving Optik service in areas? I'd like to bump up to the 25Mb "Turbo" but it wasn't available when I had it installed. 2HD and 1SD is the standard 15/1 optik If you got to your tv and click menu system info and then connection info it should tell you the supported streams.
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May 27, 2011 02:07
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Lone Rogue posted:I can't for the life of me understand why anyone would be happy or content with $60 internet that has to be bundled with television. Because the only other option is telus which is $40 internet bundled with tv.
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May 28, 2011 19:47
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Vehementi posted:I threw together a speadsheet comparing ISPs available in Vancouver (that I know of) Some 5000 people are looking at this spreadsheet. You dont have the telus optik or the Teksavvy options their cable ones are quite good compared to shaws prices. Sprawl fucked around with this message at 22:36 on Jun 9, 2011 |
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Jun 9, 2011 22:29
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Vehementi posted:No it's just anonymous user #5000 They teksavvy cable options are much better then shaws in terms of price point btw you should put those there.
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Jun 9, 2011 22:37
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Vehementi posted:Is that available in Vancouver? I checked my postal code and it said No. Is it these listings? http://www.teksavvy.com/en/res-internet.asp -> Cable Make sure you change your province to BC, it was available at my house yes. edit: you just put in the ontario rates bc ones are different.
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Squibbles posted:Hmm looking at the Shaw 100mbps prices is quite tempting since I already have cable. Wireless or wired?
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Jun 10, 2011 00:38
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Squibbles posted:Ideally it would have some sort of wifi but speed is not important on that part. All the actual PC's are wired. We'd just use wifi for phones and the laptop for light surfing duties.
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Tagra posted:Sorry to interrupt the Teksavvy chat with something about Telus Yea no its fine. You can record 2 hd tv shows 1 sd channel and still have about 10mbit left over for internet, atleast thats what i have here on on that plan.
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but I live out in the sticks and Telus/Shaw are literally the only options I have.
"my 25mb internet is only getting 19mb while the TV is on"
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Tom Swift posted:I'm in Vancouver and need a Internet Service Provider want to do Xbox Live and a lot of browsing with Moderate downloading. What's my best option/price? Depends where in vancouver but likely if you dont want TV service tekksavvy. Make sure you choose bc as your province as each province has differnet speeds and rates. The cable packages are the best speed/prices.
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Jun 20, 2011 20:24
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random nickname posted:It's CRTC in Canada. I wonder if there's a Consumerist equivalent in Canada though? If you had a "previous" business relationship with them its "legal" for them to call until you tell them to knock it the gently caress off.
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Tagra posted:I was dicking around with the Telus site to see my bundle options for upgrading, and apparently even though Optik TV is available for my address, Optik internet is not? They are the same thing but they are bundled services and you can't buy one without the other.
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triplexpac posted:What kind of upload speed should I be expecting from Teksavvy cable internet? Right now I have 26 down and 0.9 up. That really depends on your province. Check the http://teksavvy.com/en/res-internet.asp for your province and see if the numbers your paying for match. Anywhere around 80-90% of max is normal.
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Drakkus posted:Yeah, should be 'fairly?' soon. I can't give a timeframe because I don't have one, but it'll be soon. We're hugely short on SMCs and nobody likes those anyway, so I'd expect it to be in the wild pretty quickly. The model number isn't public, but, seriously, the list of docsis 3 cable modem + routers that cisco provides is a really short one. Really short. Are the moto modems not good or something? is there a reason they are not using them anymore?
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Jul 6, 2011 17:23
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kuddles posted:It entirely has to do with supply. (TekSavvy no longer offers them either.) Motorola stopped making the SB6120 ages ago, and planned on replacing it with the SB6121 immediately. For various reasons, production of the SB6121 was delayed for months and then they seem to have had other issues ever since because they've been incapable of keeping up with demand. Well those are the only modems available here in bc when i ordered so its why i ask. I'm supposed to have one of those shipped here.
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Well after dealing with tekksavvy for 2 days on orders i can't even believe i bothered with this. Now i'm out $300 i wont have service for upto 2 weeks and i get a lovely old modem that i will have to throw away in a year. Really there is no reason at all to bother with this company.
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Rawrbomb posted:One bad thing happens, we don't have the full details of either side, and we're supposed to abandon a great company? Sorry, not happening. 1 bad thing? no there was a series of 4 bad things. I was supposed to get a dociss 3 modem and now i'm going to be stuck with a SB5102 They went ahead and billed me for that modem and said oh you should get a credit the next bill. Because on my original order i was getting a different one. It was supposed to be installed tomorrow ish, now its delayed upto 2 weeks and they'll get back to me. And the tech that did all that didn't even bother to try to phone me to explain what in the hell was going on. I saw a few emails go by and one said they couldn't get a hold of me despite the fact i had my phone beside me the entire time. Just a really shady loving company. I never had any of these issues with telus or shaw despite the gently caress they are both shithole companies.
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Lone Rogue posted:http://teksavvy.com/en/res-internet.asp What ontario only?
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What really surprised me about that crtc thing is that shaw and telus said yea its no big deal with just upgrade our stuff.
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drcru posted:There wasn't a Cable/Digital TV thread so I guess I'll put this here. Ah as far as i can tell a dct2000 is just a viewier no recording so it would likely be their default one which is a dct 700
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Lone Rogue posted:"Netflix is eating up too much Internet." Shaw and telus both never complained in those sessions about netflix or ubb. Just so you know.
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ZShakespeare posted:It's still anticompetitive bullshit. Yes that is but wouldn't the single rents of their VOD stuff count too because those also dont count against your data cap. And after reading some articles it says that its only available to shaw customers which means it wouldn't reach the anti-competitive level because no one else can use it. Sprawl fucked around with this message at 17:00 on Jul 15, 2011 |
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Lone Rogue posted:Shaw is by no means the worst monster in this, but they were also the second company after Bell to implement UBB immediately after the CRTC ruling in November. iirc as far back as 5 years ago they have had posted limits on data. I dont really see data caps especially when they offer unlimited plans as a big deal. But they also aren't the ones complaining about guys like tekksavvy and needing to charge them more.
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Godinster posted:Got an email from Shaw, now they've got a 50 megabit connection for about 50 bucks a month which isn't bad. I wish we had TekSavvy in the area but I can't even get Telus Optik right now in my apartment. I actually quite like Shaw's speeds in the area too. The only Bad thing about shaws services as far as i can tell is that it will always be bundled with cable tv you can't get internet without paying $30 a month for lovely tv.
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