Telus vs Shaw

[TorqueDog]

Originally Posted by Shazam

When I switched to Shaw from Telus DSL they offered me $40/mth for internet and TV. Thing is the 10mbps upstream was killing us.

I'm all for upstream and downstream being symmetrical, but what are you doing that you can't get away with 10 Mbps upstream?

[Shazam]

Multiple video meetings suffer greatly.

[Acey]

I know the general sentiment is that everything sucks but my Telus fiber has been great, stupendously fast at 900+ up and down with no variation in speed. If Telus TV sucks, I wouldn't know because I've never had TV service with anybody and don't intend to.

Originally Posted by Fuzz

Curious what the difference is...

I'm on Shaw and get 25ms to google.com, and 11ms to ucalgary.ca. If there are other good benchmarks to try, let me know. How much better is Telus?

I get 16 ms to google.com and 2 ms to ucalgary.ca on Telus fiber in the airport area.

[Mull]

Originally Posted by Acey

I know the general sentiment is that everything sucks but my Telus fiber has been great, stupendously fast at 900+ up and down with no variation in speed. If Telus TV sucks, I wouldn't know because I've never had TV service with anybody and don't intend to.

I get 16 ms to google.com and 2 ms to ucalgary.ca on Telus fiber in the airport area.

I want to be part of this data experiment!!
From south of the belt line I got:

Google.com- average 19ms
ucalgary.ca - average 2ms

On Telus fibre 1gig up 1 gig down. Lan connection in my house, not sure if it impacts ping vs wireless

19 vs 16ms average to google is actually quite a large % difference, no?


edit: now my ads on CP include Fibre fast downloads from a company called light speed ha

[Fuzz]

At those ping times it's pretty irrelevant. Unless you are gaming, anything under 100ms isn't going to make much of a perceptible difference.

[chubeyr1]

Some posting on here should be telling us if their computer is using a wired connection or wireless. It can make a massive difference.

Are you using a VPN?

[Mull]

Originally Posted by chubeyr1

Some posting on here should be telling us if their computer is using a wired connection or wireless. It can make a massive difference.

Are you using a VPN?

Oh but I did note wired or wireless!

Wouldn’t a vpn make the ping numbers irrelevant to this discussion?

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

You'll know. They'll come to your door 3 times a month.

Friday night in the middle of summer. Bold strategy.

[topfiverecords]

You just need to disconnect your doorbell and cover your door in spikes like I did.

[Fuzz]

I saw the Telus lanyard and and "absolutely not interested" followed by a swift closing of the storm door was enough for him to know he didn't stand a chance.