Telus high speed or Shaw cable? - Page 2

PosterBoy · Mar 31st, 2004, 04:11 AM

Yes. I meant to type KB (kilobytes), not Kb (kilobit).

freakie · Sep 23rd, 2007, 04:49 PM

I had Telus High Speed Enhanced for 3 years and had 1 month of Shaw High-Speed to try out. I started off downloading upgrades from Apple and was getting 569 - 645K speeds. I switched back to Telus and was crusing around 245 - 270K download speeds of the same file.

So I now use shaw ($10.00 cheaper a month) over telus for it is 2X the speed for less $$$$$$$.

Demosthenes X · Sep 23rd, 2007, 05:24 PM

	Quote:			Originally Posted by sornek
	Telus adsl is now available in our area at a price I can't refuse! So they say. (If I opt to switch from Shaw cable I can save something like $200 the first year then maybe $5 a month after that if the rates don't move) So I've signed up for the free trial, but I'm waffling....

Why not call Shaw and tell them about the awesome offer you've got from Telus, but you've been with Shaw for years, you're happy with the service, etc., and you'd hate to switch...

Anyone tried this with internet?

zenith · Sep 23rd, 2007, 08:58 PM

	Quote:			Originally Posted by Demosthenes X
	Why not call Shaw and tell them about the awesome offer you've got from Telus, but you've been with Shaw for years, you're happy with the service, etc., and you'd hate to switch... Anyone tried this with internet?

Here, Shaw would probably stifle a laugh and tell me to go ahead and switch to another provider.

pollux · Sep 23rd, 2007, 11:48 PM

Well, being a company with unionized staff is the reason I stay away from Telus.

Gerbill · Sep 24th, 2007, 02:37 PM

Telus service sucks. (Nothing to do with the union - management decisions all the way.)

I moved my internet service to Shaw a couple of years ago and my home phone last spring.

sornek · Sep 26th, 2007, 12:01 AM

Must be Halloween comming. Old threads rise from the dead!
Don't know how unionized the overseas support staff is. Strictly management.
Check out -
Telus forum - dslreports.com broadband community
and its Shaw sister for interesting banter .
I'm still with Telus, partly because of getting hooked into a 3yr deal I couldn't resist while talking to a rep after a few too many muscle relaxants.
We've been fortunate enough to not need their tech support. The only real problem (a dns server issue) was sorted with the help of the aforsaid forum dwellers.