Shaw internet speed increases are live

[onetwo_threefour]

Finally! Just regular high speed.

[Ducay]

Im pulling 14Mbps pretty constantly from Speakeasy Seattle. On Extreme

[Dan02]

Originally Posted by ken0042

To me your issue sounds like too much going on over your neighbourhood's network; either somebody is hogging the bandwidth or for some reason there isn't enough bandwidth between HD and internet going to your house.

I've got a feeling that this is the issue to, or as a friend said maybe there's a loose connection outside the house somewhere, now if there is any reasonable solution to this i don't know, but if they don't find a concrete problem and just suggest swapping out the modems again, i'll be calling telus. Any idea how long it would take to get Telus installed?

[ken0042]

Telus took about 7 business days to enable the modem, but that might also have something to do with me also switching from Shaw Phone to Telus for home phone as well.

[Buff]

Wish my speeds were half as good at home as they are at work:

[Hack&Lube]

Originally Posted by onetwo_threefour

Finally! Just regular high speed.

That's nuts for regular highspeed

[Hack&Lube]

TBQH, I have no idea what to download with all this speed.

most places won't support it. It's not helping Hulu or Atdhe streams. Those are stick around 120 kb /s. Atdhe is still performing horribly for me, freezing every now and then and buffernig like mad. Sure I can pull over a meg a second from maybe usenet but I don't know what to do with it otherwise and important stuff like watching hockey online isn't improving at all.

[CubicleGeek]

Other than Usenet, Bittorrent benefits from this. That's about it. And even then the benefit is only apparent if you download multiple torrents at a time or in the rare case you happen to be connected to very fast seeds and peers.

There are only a very select few direct download sites that might provide enough bandwidth to fill the pipe (such as Microsoft Update).

For things like streaming video/audio bandwidth doesn't matter so much as latency and quality of service. Unless you're streaming uncompressed HD.

[I_H8_Crawford]

Wow, I was getting 5K 4 days ago.

[Rathji]

On the University wireless:



Hardwired into the Comp Sci lab network:

[onetwo_threefour]

Originally Posted by Hack&Lube

That's nuts for regular highspeed

I thought so too. I ran it three times and all three were over 20000. This was at 730 this morning. I think I benefit from living in the north end of Fairview in a fairly small community with many older folks. I doubt if there's a lot of community traffic on my subnet. I'm just hoping it stays this way and doesn't get throttled back since yesterday I was getting about 4800-4900.

[onetwo_threefour]

I can't.believe I'm getting better DL speeds than the university hardwire
for $32 a month.

[onetwo_threefour]

Just tested at work twice ...

Higher upload but slower downaload than home... Wow. I'm sure we pay more at work...

Nice pings though

[Dan02]

Originally Posted by Rathji

Hardwired into the Comp Sci lab network:

Managed to dig up some old results. We managed to get 48 Mbps down in that same lab a year and a half ago.

[photon]

Originally Posted by Hack&Lube

That's nuts for regular highspeed

Keep in mind they have that boost feature where the bandwidth is huge for the first 5 or 10 seconds, so that affects the speed tests as well I think.

[photon]

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/02/18...ps-experi.html

Slightly related.

[Rathji]

Originally Posted by Dan02

Managed to dig up some old results. We managed to get 48 Mbps down in that same lab a year and a half ago.

Yeah I am surprised it is as low as it is. I tried 2 more times and did get 13k+ down and 8k up, but still way lower than I expected.

Did another one and broke 15k..

[Madman]

[Barnes]

Madman's 15 feet closer to the server room than me...

[Dan02]

Originally Posted by ken0042

My parents in Winnipeg had the same issues (35 year old house) when they got HD- and Shaw had to burry a new line from the junction box to their house. If they offer to to that, get it in writing when they will complete the burrial of the cable. Another friend had cable running across his back yard for 2 years before they got around to permanantly burrying it.

So tech came by, fiddled with some of the connections in the main box, and replaced some connectors. Said this was the 3rd house in our community he visited today, which was very abnormal especially since we live in a pretty small community.

Anyways he ran a line test or whatnot, and the signal strength is fine but apparently there is significant signal loss. So much so that if i wanted to upgrade to HDTV i wouldn't be able to. So he basically said they needed to replace the line, however, due to our location on our street he can't put in a temporary line and we won't likely be able to get a new one buried until summer 2010.