07-13-2013, 06:12 PM
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Self Imposed Exile
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Calgary
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Shaw Internet slow
anyone else noticing very slow internet today?
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07-13-2013, 06:22 PM
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Crash and Bang Winger
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Yes.
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07-13-2013, 07:32 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
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Seems same as always here in the NW, FWIW
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07-14-2013, 09:18 PM
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Self Imposed Exile
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Calgary
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Weird, this holy weekend it has been off and on really slow
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07-15-2013, 08:10 AM
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Franchise Player
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Kavy
anyone else noticing very slow internet today?
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Have you checked the batteries in your keyboard?
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07-15-2013, 02:46 PM
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Basement Chicken Choker
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: In a land without pants, or war, or want. But mostly we care about the pants.
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I was downloading the Internet to my computer over the weekend, I'm all done now though so service should be back to normal. Sorry about that - I forgot we're all on a shared pipe.
If it happens again, just drop by and bring one of those new 1 GajillionByte memory sticks so I can make you your own copy.
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Better educated sadness than oblivious joy.
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07-15-2013, 02:50 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: San Fernando Valley
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Kavy
Weird, this holy weekend it has been off and on really slow
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I've noticed the past week has been slow in the NW. I'm not sure if they are having issues or making changes but I've been a user for years and last week was the slowest it's ever been. Apparently it's flood related as some areas have been re-routed or so I am told.
Last edited by Erick Estrada; 07-15-2013 at 03:02 PM.
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07-15-2013, 06:40 PM
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I've been having slow internet for a good two weeks now; I am attributing it to resources being used up more due to flooding impact.
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07-16-2013, 10:50 AM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Fantasy Island
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Unrelated to this (weird) thread, but my shaw connection is so terrible that when I try to remote log-in to work, the work network always kicks me off. I went through a big ordeal with IT and they did all these investigations and eventually determined that my Shaw connection was 100% the problem. When I phoned shaw to ask them to come and look into it the tech was super rude to me and ended up telling me to "switch to Telus". 
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07-16-2013, 10:58 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Marseilles Of The Prairies
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That's really bizarre. My VPN for work is slow doing certain tasks and fine for others (don't get booted though), but that's more due to Telus at work combined with our mediocre VPN software, rather than Shaw at home. Folks with Telus have an even worse time on the VPN.
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Settle down there, Temple Grandin.
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07-16-2013, 06:56 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Calgary
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^ What software? I have a love / hate relationship with ours, even after I upgraded my Internet speed.
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12-02-2013, 08:57 PM
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evil of fart
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Man Shaw still sucks. I had it working better for a while with a new router, but it's back to its super slow crappy ways. I'm paying for 50 Mbps and I'm getting like 0.8 in my basement. Is Telus better? Has anybody just said screw it to hardline Internet? I'm thinking of just buying a separate cell phone plan with a ton of data and setting it up as a permanent hotspot in my house. I get like 25 Mbps with my cell phone so I don't know why I'm bothering with Shaw at all.
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12-02-2013, 09:01 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Salmon with Arms
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Originally Posted by Sliver
Man Shaw still sucks. I had it working better for a while with a new router, but it's back to its super slow crappy ways. I'm paying for 50 Mbps and I'm getting like 0.8 in my basement. Is Telus better? Has anybody just said screw it to hardline Internet? I'm thinking of just buying a separate cell phone plan with a ton of data and setting it up as a permanent hotspot in my house. I get like 25 Mbps with my cell phone so I don't know why I'm bothering with Shaw at all.
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I had that issue until I downloaded wifi analytics on my cell phone and discovered the channel my wifi was on was super congested. I switched channels and now I get pretty decent speeds. Well, except when the node gets congested which is when Shaw definitely sucks
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12-02-2013, 09:06 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Marseilles Of The Prairies
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I decided that wifi is for chumps.
The PLSK400 is the best solution I've found, and its definitely faster than wireless-N.
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Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm
Settle down there, Temple Grandin.
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12-02-2013, 09:20 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
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200 mbps? Pfft, gimme that 802.11ac.
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12-02-2013, 09:20 PM
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evil of fart
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Originally Posted by PsYcNeT
I decided that wifi is for chumps.
The PLSK400 is the best solution I've found, and its definitely faster than wireless-N. |
What does that do exactly?
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12-02-2013, 09:23 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
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Originally Posted by Sliver
What does that do exactly?
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You plug it into a power outlet and run ethernet cable to it for networking.
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12-02-2013, 09:25 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Marseilles Of The Prairies
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It's an ethernet extender. Plug one into the socket beside your modem, run a cable to it, plug another one in a far away location where other ethernet devices are located (blu-ray player, PS4, HTPC, etc) and plug them directly in. Mine clocks in ~240Mbps (about 30 megabytes per second) on LAN based file transfers, and I see no difference on my 100Mbps internet between devices on that part of the network, and my direct connect PCs.
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Originally Posted by TurnedTheCorner
200 mbps? Pfft, gimme that 802.11ac.
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Give it a few years.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm
Settle down there, Temple Grandin.
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12-03-2013, 08:21 AM
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evil of fart
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Sweet, thanks man. I'll buy one.
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12-22-2013, 01:48 PM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Oct 2005
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A little bump. I've been having a few issues over the last two days. I lose connection completely, latency is horrible on games and Netflix has been stopping. Haven't had problems like these for a long while. A customer service call to Shaw has gone nowhere with their answer saying internet is fine, contact all the servers you are having issues with....
Anyone else with connection issues?
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