Shaw Nitro

[sclitheroe]

Just curious if anyone out there has tried Shaw's newest high speed offering, Nitro, which runs at 25 megabits. I'm happy with Extreme-I, but 25 meg...wow

On the other hand, how many hours a day do you need to sit in front of your computer to justify $100 per month?

-Scott

[photon]

Yeah, the cost kills it for me.. if they bumped up the upload to 2Mb then I'd consider it.

[GoinAllTheWay]

Who is really ever going to need that kind of speed? Unless you are in the habit of d/ling huge files, like in the Gig range, then you really are never going to make full use of it.

Not even a hardcore gamer would use it, d/l stream is perfectly good for pretty much all games even at their regular speeds, u/l stream in most games is also minimal.

[ken0042]

A buddy I work with got it for 2 weeks and went back to I-Extreme.

He said he was unable to get it to go much past 13 or 14 mbps; even with multitasking. His thought were that if it was $20 more he'd have kept it. But it wasn't worth double.

Probably a scenario where it would be good is if you live in a household with 3 or 4 geeks sharing an internet connection; then you might be able to make use of it.

[sclitheroe]

Yeah, that's what I was thinking too, that it probably isn't quite as fast as advertised. I emailed Shaw to see if they'd let me try it free for a while to give it a whirl.

-Scott

Originally Posted by ken0042

A buddy I work with got it for 2 weeks and went back to I-Extreme.

He said he was unable to get it to go much past 13 or 14 mbps; even with multitasking. His thought were that if it was $20 more he'd have kept it. But it wasn't worth double.

Probably a scenario where it would be good is if you live in a household with 3 or 4 geeks sharing an internet connection; then you might be able to make use of it.

[Hack&Lube]

It's just a pathetic way to make more money for shaw. In advanced internet countries in Asia, such as Korea, you already have most lines at these blazing speeds without upload/download bandwidth limitations.

Shaw just throttles back everybody else on lite and regular.