Broadband + Canada = Disaster

[Keikan]

If you have broadband and you live in canada you notice extreme slowdowns, all over the country (or maybe just western canada) with both Telus and Shaw <_< My cable speed was suppose to be 1.5mbps or atleast 1 mbps but right now at this exact moment with everything off my bandwidth is 600kbps which is very lucky usally it sit&#39;s around 500-something kbps or less and with kazaa on it drops to around 256kbps....

So what about you, do you live in Canada? Do you have braodband? Do your speeds suck ass?


I want videotron back.......

I called shaw, i was put on hold for 1/2 hr, listening to crappy nfl commerials. Anyways they said there&#39;s alot of of errors on my modem and my line may have "noise"

[NikkiD]

Yeah - I&#39;m in Canada, and I used to have cable through Rogers, which might I add, sucked. One minute I&#39;m getting 1.5mbps, the next I&#39;m fighting for 512kbps, if anything at all - every other day their servers were down for one reason or another. I hated cable...

I&#39;m on Sympatico Ultra High Speed now - it&#39;s &#036;10 more than I was paying for Rogers and I&#39;m supposed to get 3mbps - and it usually is right up there, unless they&#39;re having server problems, which is fairly infrequent for me.

[Keikan]

dammit you lucky people in ontario always using Sympatico
I get Telus for my adsl which sucks too

[balamm]

What the hell would you and your p2 do with 1.5mbps anyway Keikan? :blink:

Couple minutes of that and your poor drive would be overfilled anyway :lol:

[Virtualbody1234]

My adsl is working fine, no slowdowns here.

Montreal.

[Keikan]

Originally posted by balamm@25 November 2003 - 21:42
What the hell would you and your p2 do with 1.5mbps anyway Keikan? :blink:

Couple minutes of that and your poor drive would be overfilled anyway :lol:
I don&#39;t have 1.5mbps thats the point

[slammy_dunken]

Originally posted by Keikan@25 November 2003 - 22:34
I get Telus for my adsl which sucks too
Thats what I&#39;m using. (Alberta)

[Keikan]

Does it suck ass?

[Adster]

you think thats bad 75% of Aussies can&#39;t get ADSL or cable i was lucky had to wait 1 year though bitching about it for a year worked

[SniperInTheShadows]

I thought that you could only get noise interfering with a connection over a phoneline, I didn&#39;t realise it applied to cable etc too :(

Is it relatively new over there? If so could just be that they&#39;re having teething problems.

Cable over here in the UK suck&#39;s a bit too, at least where I live as almost all the country had broadband for about 6 month&#39;s before it was available for me, and now the rest of the country has 1MB and 2MB services with 4MB almost ready but i&#39;ve got to wait until after Christmas until just the 1MB service is available :(

Well, at least it&#39;s faster and alot more reliable than Dial-up, and that far out weigh&#39;s the occasional prob with it :)

Sniper.

[MagicNakor]

No slowdowns here.

:ninja:

[Spicker]

i live in CANADA&#33; and i use the isp called ROGERS and they just increased their speed from 1.5mbps to 3.0mbps&#33;(download speed) soo lucky no slow downs usually get 3.5mbps at night&#33; :D

btw i live in TORONTO

[junkyardking]

Slowdowns on cable are to be expected it&#39;s a shared service if alot in your street are subscribed to it and all do p2p expect it be be slower.

[Monkster]

I live in Vancouver, and yes Telus broadband sux&#33; <_< And there suppor is terrible&#33; :angry:

[johnboy27]

Nova Scotia Eastlink here and everything is working perfect for me .No sign of any slowdowns.

Here is a copy of my last speed test.

2003-12-16 22:36:44 EST: 2250 / 689
Your download speed : 2250030 bps, or 2250 kbps.
A 274.6 KB/sec transfer rate.
Your upload speed : 689417 bps, or 689 kbps.
Seems like broadband .. above the 1mbit barrier&#33;

[Shareef]

ppl should start using cable uncappers but its pretty hard wit shaw cause i heard the always moniter the really fast d/l

[johnboy27]

Uncapping your modem is illegal,they monitor everything you do.They know what you are downloading all the time.As soon as they see your speed spike above the norm ,you are nailed.It&#39;s a waste of time.

[Neo 721]

It is suposodly possible to uncapp with cable but not with DSL, wierd thing about that is me along with other people in my area have achived 576k out 512 connections.

[Spicker]

yes uncapping is illegal u can get a big fine and what not i hav tried and got speeds of like 4mbps :P and upload of 2mbps lol and then changed it back in 1 day it was fun... but my modem was like overheating&#33; LOL seriously i have a crappy TERYON non doc sis compatible.

if u wana uncap on my server i put the cable modem hacking kit
(link in my sig)
i dunt recommend it
i jus got lucky and got away with it

so dont DO IT lol ;)

[DWk]

oh so it actually works? :rolleyes:

lol i have like 2mbps speed on my modem....its enuff for a user like me.... upload is waht kills me though....well they have to fix it anyways lol

[Spicker]

yes it depends on which kind of modem u have....

u see wen the modems go online they download a small config file from ur isp which tells the modem on what speed to go at.... lol so u just gotta make a new config file and upload it to ur modem and then let nature take its course (getting caught) lol

[james_bond_rulez]

Telus adsl is ok, i am on it, customer support sucks. ocasional server maintainence and downtime i get pretty consistant 1200kbps down and 400kbps up for 40 bucks CAD a month <_<

and i only got 1 warning for copyright infrigement <_<

so so service from Telus <_<

[Keikan]

Shaw has no problemos with piracy i guess

[james_bond_rulez]

Originally posted by Keikan@19 December 2003 - 19:32
Shaw has no problemos with piracy i guess
heh guess again

they are just too lazy to enforce it :lol:

[Smith]

sympatico sucks ass..its designed 2 only give hi speeds with windowns xp. i have windows 98se. i have downleded intenret optimisers and i just DAP for big dl&#39;s. but my normal dl speed on a 1mb connection is 100mb/s

with dap and a good site i can get between 250-300kb/s

my higest speed ever was 1500kb/s. tht was the first time i connected 2 the internet with sympatico.

it decreases over the first 2 months untill u get about 30kb/s

RIP OFF GOD DAMMIT@@&#33;&#33;

[Smith]

sympatico sucks ass..its designed 2 only give hi speeds with windowns xp. i have windows 98se. i have downleded intenret optimisers and i just DAP for big dl&#39;s. but my normal dl speed on a 1mb connection is 100mb/s

with dap and a good site i can get between 250-300kb/s

my higest speed ever was 1500kb/s. tht was the first time i connected 2 the internet with sympatico.

it decreases over the first 2 months untill u get about 30kb/s

RIP OFF GOD DAMMIT@@&#33;&#33;

EDIT: oops double post

[DWk]

Originally posted by james_bond_rulez+19 December 2003 - 22:41--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (james_bond_rulez @ 19 December 2003 - 22:41)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Keikan@19 December 2003 - 19:32
Shaw has no problemos with piracy i guess
heh guess again

they are just too lazy to enforce it :lol: [/b][/quote]
lmao so true

[Neo 721]

If you are in the UK it is highley unlikley that any concequence will come across from downloading copyrighed materials, the government discribes the matter as "trivial" isp&#39;s dont like uncapping very much though, it is classed as theft of service.

[Cygnuz-Y]

I dont know What company they are using where i live but i get really good download speed...

Waterloo, Ontario