Telus or Shaw

Doug · #1 05-13-2012, 12:31 AM

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Originally Posted by MarkoD

ok im gonna clear something up. On telus, when watching all 3 streams of TV at once, they still guarantee high speed internet on your computer (which is 6meg) with every tv that you turn off, your speed goes up to a max of 26meg.

shaw internet is not effected by your TV, but it is effected by everyone in your neighborhood that uses Shaw Internet. at 4pm when everyone gets home from work and jumps on their shaw internet you'll be lucky to get 3meg

Appreciate the input Marko. My current provider is a cable company, tv and internet. I just checked. Running just under 1m upload and about 8m down. Fast enough for our use.

sphelps · #2 05-13-2012, 12:58 AM

Telus optik is pretty good, I like it better for TV over Shaw, but I find Shaw internet to be better overall especially in more remote areas. If all you can get from Telus is satellite don't even consider it.

You'll find rants on both sides relating to promos and bad service, neither side is better in this department but Shaw is more likely to service remote areas better than Telus in terms of how quickly they get techs out to your place, but it will depend on the area.

whatcaneyedo · #3 05-13-2012, 01:09 AM

My brother works for Telus right now so after 6 years of Shaw we're back to Telus. Although we never had any problems with Shaw the Internet speed with Telus is definitely faster and because my brother advises me on how to capitalize on all of their promotions we're getting more channels now and paying less than we were with Shaw.

cav~firez22 · #4 05-13-2012, 03:35 AM

Biggest thing to consider is how fast do you want your internet? Telus, with a MAX SPEED of 25 Mbps,
or Shaw, with an Average of 50Mbps?

do you like live TV? Shaw
or streaming internet TV ? Telus

Doug · #5 05-13-2012, 02:57 PM

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Originally Posted by cav~firez22

Biggest thing to consider is how fast do you want your internet? Telus, with a MAX SPEED of 25 Mbps,
or Shaw, with an Average of 50Mbps?

do you like live TV? Shaw
or streaming internet TV ? Telus

Just regular ole tv I guess. Decent speed internet and a decent home phone plan. As mentioned, still with Rodgers for a couple yrs. on my iPhone.