Telus TV

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

Well, I finally got my Telus TV installed today.

My installer works for Telus & is NOT a contractor, so that was a huge plus. He's been doing this for 29 years, so he's very experienced. Great guy, easy to talk to & willing to set up everything the way I wanted it. (ie. now I can run a line out to the deck in the back & watch TV in the summer outside)

Tested the speed & I'm gettin 11 mbs on the high speed internet consistently. Woohoo.

Can't wait to use my free PVR.

I got to watch the Canadians destroy the Russians in High Def, as well as Cdn women win Gold & Silver in Bobsledding & Silver in Speedskating Relay.

Awesome. Very, very happy that I made the switch so far.

I'll still be saving close to $700 over the next year over my Shaw bill.

I now have highspeed wireless internet for my wife and her 11 mbs will NOT slow down my own internet connection.

And after they come disconnect & pick up their equipment, I won't have to deal with those liars at Shaw. This whole situation has really soured me on Shaw.

Can't wait until I can bundle my Telus Mobility & Telus internet/tv/digital phone together & save even more.

Anthony

Originally Posted by SeaHorse_Fanatic

Well, I finally got my Telus TV installed today.

My installer works for Telus & is NOT a contractor, so that was a huge plus. He's been doing this for 29 years, so he's very experienced. Great guy, easy to talk to & willing to set up everything the way I wanted it. (ie. now I can run a line out to the deck in the back & watch TV in the summer outside)

Tested the speed & I'm gettin 11 mbs on the high speed internet consistently. Woohoo.

Can't wait to use my free PVR.

I got to watch the Canadians destroy the Russians in High Def, as well as Cdn women win Gold & Silver in Bobsledding & Silver in Speedskating Relay.

Awesome. Very, very happy that I made the switch so far.

I'll still be saving close to $700 over the next year over my Shaw bill.

I now have highspeed wireless internet for my wife and her 11 mbs will NOT slow down my own internet connection.

And after they come disconnect & pick up their equipment, I won't have to deal with those liars at Shaw. This whole situation has really soured me on Shaw.

Can't wait until I can bundle my Telus Mobility & Telus internet/tv/digital phone together & save even more.

Anthony

Telus has only been doing this version of their TV for the last 8-10 months so he is not as expierionced as you thing. IPTV is a whole new ball game I worked fro MTS in Winnipeg and installed their TV. MTS TV is different and is a better product one reciever can conect as many TV's as you want but you can only watch different programming on 3 for the TV's at the same time wireless removes you do not have to be in the same room to change chanels.

Telus TV can only have 2 boxes working at one time because they work on the ADSL network and have to be hardwired to the router that is installed. When I worked at Telus in Edmonton I was one of the first 7 to start getting the training for Telus TV but the union put a stop to Telus TV. Telus TV could be a better produce if they used the Fiber that us contractors have put in and go with active filters run a net drop to the house and then you could have as many TV's as you want on the system. Telus did this in Edmonton and Calgary back in 1995-2000 then Entwhistle scrapted the project. Apparently there was alot of people that were mad over that as the end product was way better than what Shaw had. I even believe that there was one customer that wanted to buy the system off Telus. Telus said no and it sat. I do believe the headend equipment in Edmonton and Calgary are now being used for the new Telus TV project. Telus borrowed one of theguys That Built the head end in Winnipeg to build one in BC. I wish Telus all the best with this project because it can open alot of technical areas for the future.

Telus statalite is supose to be great and is a better deal than what Bell gives and yes Telus and Bell are teamed up on these projects they signed contracts last year.

Bill

[BMW Rider]

I have Telus TV too, we've been with them for a little over a year now with no issues at all. We have three TVs, each with its own box. The downside is that to get the third set, we had to pass on HD. It does depend on the signal strength at your house too, ours is very strong according to the installer who set it up.

I have an aquaintance who is a director with Telus in Networking. He indicated that Telus will soon be able to supply as many as six boxes and HD to a customer. His timeline for this to start rolling out was very soon, likely February or March. He indicated that current customers would be getting the upgrades first.

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

Yup, they just installed the fibre optics system in my neighbourhood & started the new protocol this month. I can run up to 6 TVs now, not 2 and it doesn't affect my internet speed. Getting 11 mbs on my computer & my wife's laptop (wirelessly) as well. The installer even ran an extra long line to my back so if we ever want to hang out on the deck to let Felicia play in the backyard while we watch tv or surf the net, no problem. And more computers using our connection will NOT slow down my internet speed, so I'm happy.

With Shaw, my internet speed fluctuated constantly, depending on time of day (ie. around 3pm it was superslow).

I now have far more channels, excellent HD sports coverage to watch the Olympics, a free PVR, faster internet, wireless internet for Irene, same digital phone service, ability to watch HD tv out back & will still save about $700 this year.

I know that the earlier Telus TV service was crap. They tried to go too fast before their system was fully up to speed & they used crappy contractors who screwed things up & POed alot of customers.

I tested the internet speed & watched Telus TV at a friend's place first before switching. My internet is almost 4 times faster and so I'm a happy camper so far.

Anthony

[Piscez]

Actually Telus TV just launched Microsoft Mediaroom
Record shows from up to six TVs in the home with a single Personal Video Recorder (PVR)
Watch and record three programs simultaneously, with up to two in High Definition (HD)
Replay, pause, fast forward and rewind recorded shows on any TV in the home
Connect TELUS TV on up to six TVs
Experience picture-in-picture channel browsing and instant channel changes
Plan TV viewing easily and quickly with the new Interactive Programming Guide
Combine High Speed Plus with our new TELUS TV service and surf twice as fast as with regular High Speed

I have Telus Satellite TV which is same a Bell ExpressVu, yes Bell and Telus partnered up on this and the 3G+ cellular network

Telus did try and buy Bell canada last summer and CRTC said they could not as they would become a monopily anyway in The cell service world now there are a couple othe cell service providers out there they will be making anouther play at buying Bell canada. As far as hacking a friend of my departed brother was one of the first in Canada to offer security program evaluating to corporations. He would charge a yearly flate rate and hack thier system tell them what they needed to do to improve on what they had for security software. he built a program called gone in sixty seconds. It did most of the work in the begining. Now he has become a recluse as he hates big corporations as you are just a number to them. He has moved to Whitehorse with his family and is enjoying retirement. Yes hacking is hard but there are alot of people out there that do it just to see what they can get off a persons computer. With Shaws internet system you are sharing a hub with other computers it maynot be as bad as it once was but you still share your network with others. A shared network makes it easer for some one to hack your computer you can do a IP tracerout to determin if others are on a network with you. its not as hard to hack as some believe. Nortons security software is one of the most sold software packages but is is also one of the easer to hack because most people don't know how to set it up properly. Alot of univercities in the satates use it and they get hacked constanly. Good thing student records and test and such are on a seporate network.

Bill

[CDNPiper]

Hey All.. Long time lurker, but this subject is something I have some knowledge about (unlike reefkeeping - still leeching knowledge)

I have had TelusTV for about 4 years. I've had no real problems with it, but I'm in a new area of Edmonton. I recently upgraded to the new Telus TV that they are currently advertising and am very happy.

One of the downsides of it before was the limit to a 3mbps internet connection and 2 Set top Boxes. Now I can have up to 6 Set Top Boxes, all of them HD capable and my internet is 15mbps (when all the TV's are off) and around 7mbps when they are on. I have 3 set top boxes in my house right now and all are HD capable. The PVR is 320gig and ANY tv in the house can access content from it, and even the old school analog TV's can display recorded HD content. Convenient when my kids want to watch Spongebob, I can send them upstairs and they can access the PVR from there when we have people over.

Last night my wife wanted to watch a movie that was on the PVR and I wanted to watch the game. She went to the bedroom and watched it while I was downstairs watching the game live using the PVR. Both were HD and it worked solidly. Also, I told her she HAD to watch the last 5 min of the 3rd so I went upstairs, paused her show, joined the game and rewound it to the last 5... Something I can't do with any other provider right now.

Shaw doesn't offer the "Whole Home PVR" and charges at least $400 for a HD PVR.

Disclaimer: I used to work for Shaw and really can't stand them so I am biased. Nor will I ever have any Shaw/Starchoice products in my home.

Also, it's well known that Shaw uses bandwidth throttling on their internet connection, and Telus doesn't. I'll stick to Telus because I don't need an ISP deciding the priority of the traffic that I want from the internet.

[StirCrazy]

Originally Posted by CDNPiper

The PVR is 320gig and ANY tv in the house can access content from it,
Shaw doesn't offer the "Whole Home PVR" and charges at least $400 for a HD PVR.

My PVR is 1TB and cost 150.00 from shaw. I will admidt that the whole house things is cool, the best I can do is record two different shows at once while watchign a third. would be nice to be able to access that from my upstairs tv also, midn you all I have to do is run a cable and I can..

My issue with telus isn't there services but rather there buisness practice and lack of customer service.

also people don't realize that there is an quazi monopoly on celphones in canada, there are two major companice,, Telus and rodgers. they work hand in hand to set pricing and eliminate compatition. people are going to say what about bell, and the other little guys.. they are controled by either telus or rodgers.

this is why all the plans when you realy look at them end up costing about the same thing for the same services, one company might give you one thing a little cheeper but the other stuff costs more. untill they let the big NA cell companies into canada we will never have fair pricing or services. it is pretty sad when I can pay 60 bucks in the US and unlimited everything to any number accross NA. my cousins don't have home phones anymore they just use there cells. In Canada you can't do that as they have no all invclusive LD plan.. and even my fave 5 nation wide is only good in canada if I am in the US I am payign roaming charges and also air time and LD I calculated that if I used my phone like my cousins do it would cost me about 585.00/month to get the usage they pay 60 bucks for. its good being in Canada where our goverment lets companies screw us eh


Steve

StirCrazy

"also people don't realize that there is an quazi monopoly on celphones in canada, there are two major companice,, Telus and rodgers. they work hand in hand to set pricing and eliminate compatition. people are going to say what about bell, and the other little guys.. they are controled by either telus or rodgers.

this is why all the plans when you realy look at them end up costing about the same thing for the same services, one company might give you one thing a little cheeper but the other stuff costs more. untill they let the big NA cell companies into canada we will never have fair pricing or services. it is pretty sad when I can pay 60 bucks in the US and unlimited everything to any number accross NA. my cousins don't have home phones anymore they just use there cells. In Canada you can't do that as they have no all invclusive LD plan.. and even my fave 5 nation wide is only good in canada if I am in the US I am payign roaming charges and also air time and LD I calculated that if I used my phone like my cousins do it would cost me about 585.00/month to get the usage they pay 60 bucks for. its good being in Canada where our goverment lets companies screw us eh"

There are about 6 cell companies in Canada 3 of which piggy back on either Telus or Bell's networks. Rogers has thier own network which they have been working endlessly to upgrade I believe all of Alberta is finished now and They have started on BC.

Price setting is illegal in Canada and the companies can get hug fines for it, In there defence when one company changes their service the others have to follow suit to be competitive. so they undercut the other company. They have seen what this does to them in the 90' when they all brought in unlimited longdistance calling. they lost a tunn of money and now that Shaw is cutting into there phone profits they need to look to the futur insted of just reacting to te present. This is all theyare doing right now just reacting to what is happening with Shaw. Video phone is the way for the future and fiber to the home. Telus has tried many projects in Vancouver with no real seccess with fiber to the home. Ed Tel tried also and Telus after they bought EdTel. We are moving forward slowly one day we will get there, it is looking like things are getting closer.

Bill