Telus TV

Originally Posted by hlywd

From what I understand, anytime you have a cable feed coming into your house that feeds both internet and tv, it will slow down both processes. With that in mind, I was a customer of Telus for both internet and tv, but couldn't get fast speeds on my internet which drove me crazy. My friend informed me that Telus has a ridiculously bad history of moving too much of your allotted bandwidth to feed to your tv, and cutting it away from your internet, rather than just giving you alot for each function. I've switched to Shaw, for both services, and couldn't be happier!!!! Anytime you use HD services, they obviously take up alot of your bandwidth as well.

You see with Telus there are many things that will afect your speeds that you get the first and formost ofender is how far you are from the box that is feeding your house. Telus has problems with their internet not for this reason they don't have enough bandwidth to feeding their conection to the internet. Telus has to install more chastas I think that is how you spell it anyways it is a piece of equipment that pops you onto the internet after the gateway. Yes all Telus equipment sits behind a firewall and Shaws does not that is why I use Telus a bit more secure. If you do on line banking or make purchases over the internet with Shaw it is very posible for your information to be duplicated while you are making that transaction. I did an install in Leduc Albert for a guy that was using Shaw he was run an ani-virus scan and in the time he went to the shopping store and back his entire hard drive was downloaded by someone. He had to change all his bank accounts and cancel his credit card and have new ones sent out. He found out that who ever did it had tried to use his credit card and access his on line bankig info after he had canceled them.

I believe it is consumer beware out there and that is why there are so many programs for firewalls and security.

Bill

[StirCrazy]

Originally Posted by bvlester

. I did an install in Leduc Albert for a guy that was using Shaw he was run an ani-virus scan and in the time he went to the shopping store and back his entire hard drive was downloaded by someone. He had to change all his bank accounts and cancel his credit card and have new ones sent out. He found out that who ever did it had tried to use his credit card and access his on line bankig info after he had canceled them.

I believe it is consumer beware out there and that is why there are so many programs for firewalls and security.

Bill

I suspect he is telling you a story on that one. yes they can get info, but it is very hard and if your running any anti virius at all it is unlikely. if you have a firewall then that is another hurdle. also online banking ect is 128bit encription, it is going to take a super computer a week to break that, so unless a group is specificly targiting you not to much to worry about there.

Shaw also has firewall, anti virius and e-mail filters you chose to use them or not. telus internet is slow unless you are close to where they have there main equipment, the farther away the slower it is. in outlining comunities it is almost painfull.

Steve

Originally Posted by StirCrazy

I suspect he is telling you a story on that one. yes they can get info, but it is very hard and if your running any anti virius at all it is unlikely. if you have a firewall then that is another hurdle. also online banking ect is 128bit encription, it is going to take a super computer a week to break that, so unless a group is specificly targiting you not to much to worry about there.

Shaw also has firewall, anti virius and e-mail filters you chose to use them or not. telus internet is slow unless you are close to where they have there main equipment, the farther away the slower it is. in outlining comunities it is almost painfull.

Steve

this was alittle while ago about 6 years ago but anyways if you do not keep your ani-virus program up to date then guess what there is no way you can detect all viruses also there is no ani-virus program out there that will 100% of the viruses that is why i run 2 anti-virus program simotainusly. Fire walls are only as good as the person that sets them up if you leave anything open it leaves away for others to hack in. I had a very good firewall that had a sandbox incorperated in to it. I found at least once a month someone wouldget by the fire wall and then get stuck in the sandbox. A sandbox works by throwing endless passwords at an intruder cink of like a dog chasing his own tail around. I had one guy in there for over an hour trying to hackin, relentless if nothing else. then the company that I got that product from sold out and stopped providing security software for the home user, now all of the gateway and chastas equipment and WAN use thier software.

Bill