Internet speeds?
 

Just wondering how the average Vancouverite is doing on internet speeds. I was paying for Shaw "warp" and it was stuttering on HD youtubes so I got a new modem and it dropped even more to sub-10Mbps. So they did a service call, gave me "Internet 60" and now I get this:

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Very happy, hope I am understanding the bill properly though.

You can test your own at www.speedtest.net.

Very nice! My download speed's not quite as fast but still perfectly fine for my needs.

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This is what 80$ of telus service gets me.

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I'm on Novus 50/10. Nice ping.

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CIK Telecom 30/5 - $39/month - runs on Shaw's network
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Ron.

Yeah not sure what happened on my first test, ping is consistently 1ms now.

http://i.imgur.com/X0VKOEO.png

Speedtest.net seems to value upload speed a lot in its letter grade.

The letter grade could be linked to the provider itself.

Womp womp. Telus $80/month noted above. Can't wait for Telus Fibre, which is supposedly much faster and the same price.

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Could be MUCH worse

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With TELUS Internet 50. $80 a month.

I closed all my tabs and retried and the result is improved.

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Our new place has fibre optics and I called Telus who is the only fibre ISP offering service. Same prices as DSL and thei max speed is 150Mbs. I will leave the fibre unused for now and go with Teksavvy DSL instead. I can't wait for Urbanfibre to get bigger. Telus is a highway bandit.:hell:

I have a pretty crappy internet connection here in Mexico compared to what you guys get in Vancouver.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/5298077846.png

But I pay less than $30 for internet, phone (including unlimited calls to US, Canada and western Europe), and TV.

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It is pretty much exactly what I pay for (Shaw 30). I regularly check and and over my wired connection, my connection speed has never dropped bellow what I pay for.

But how do some of you guys clearly get in excess of your plan's upload speed? I used to have shaw 60 for the higher upload speed (and then when they doubled the upload speeds at Christmas I downgraded to 30. I was tempted to switch to Telus, but now the upload speeds are very similar at the price points).

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The one good thing about living in Delta

Good download speed but look at the upload speed. The upload speed is laughable. That's like a 15 to 1 ratio. It should be 6 to 4. That would mean your REAL download speed would be 94 and upload speed 62. This is the result of marketing, lack of competition, and just a general lack of knowledge by the public at large. All the ISP's push download speeds in Canada and completely hide upload speeds. Do you want to have a 4k video conference call? Aint happening with you connection. Want to transfer a file to your partners computer (who also has the same internet) fast? Aint happening because you are limited to your max upload speed. Want to broadcast something? Good luck. One 4k stream requires roughly 40 mb/s. You are very short. But you can watch roughly 4 4k streams at once.

But the thing is you dont have to be short on the upload side if only the ISP had a proper ratio. But that doesn't sell in this current market.

Also when people compare our speeds to others speeds you need to add up to download and upload. Some guy in Czechia with 300 down and 200 up has a significantly better service then some Canadian with 400 down and 20 up.

And just when I completed writing this I went on to order Telus internet! :runaway:

I was already placing an order for Teksavvy, but as I was clicking through their order process the fees just kept adding up and in the end just the fees would have been around $350!

With Telus there is no installation fee and no new hardware needed, so there are no fees for me to pay. That $350 will go a long way in paying for the higher monthly price ($68/month vs. $45/month) for the same 25 Mbps fibre optics internet.

It feels such a waste to have fibre come in your apartment and not be able to utilize it! Like mentioned, Telus' pricing for fibre internet is a joke vs. Urbanfibre and not even nearly as fast. The service representative didn't believe me when I told him what price Urbanfibre is charging for their 1Gbps service, until he checked their website. He was dumbfounded to say the least.

At least I have a month-to-month contract that I can cancel the moment either Novus (or blessed be the heavens, Urbanfibre) expands to our building. Until then... :(

Funny you mentioned UrbanFibre as I work for them.

Any hints as to where you are expanding next, or the potential speed of expansion? Seems like great speeds so far, but the network is all over the place, concentrated up at SFU?

What's the point of fiber if it's capped at 25 Mbps?

The focus is currently on Coquitlam City Centre and Downtown Vancouver at the moment. The next large expansion will be in Richmond or New West. As soon as the city of New West completes their fibre backbone that is.

The city of Coquitlam already ran their own fibre network (QNet) so we are able to provide our service just about all over Coquitlam. New West is currently doing the same. Surrey is another possibility.

http://www.newwestcity.ca/2015/02/03...initiative.php

Fiber will run everything a lot smoother then copper. With copper you can get lots of interference on the line such as EMI (Electromagnetic Interference) and Cross talk from other copper.

Also, if he wants to upgrade to a higher speed in the future he can without having a tech come over to upgrade anything.

On Shaw 15 ($63/month)

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I had no idea municipalities were running their own fibre. Very interesting. Not so great for us on or near the DT Van core, but hopefully somebody will serve us at those speeds soon. :)

You guys are doing God's work! :tup:

I cannot wait until you expand to more buildings in Metrotown. I am all cabled for you to arrive at any time and on your waiting list. Will also try to do some promoting with our building's Strata Manager, as our building is huge and likely most suites have cables ready (at least us in the upper floors do).

Speed wise there is no point, but like skymaster said, it's more stable, there is the readiness to increase speed at any time and our suite had fibre optics modem in place, so why not use it?

The sad thing here is that only Telus provides fibre optics internet service in our building, so I had to choose from their network plans, which only have speeds between 15-150 Mbps (same as their DSL offering). Technically they could do 1 Gbps if they wanted, but Telus being our own Comcast, refuses to offer anything competitive as long as there is no competition. It's the same as in the US, where Google Fibre coming to town makes Comcast and others introduce a similarly-priced 1 Gbps internet the very same day. They just wait until they have to do that.

But since Telus' pricing is a joke, I went with one of the cheapest plans (and truth be told, I don't really need a faster internet). So yeah, it's a waste of the technology at this point and not really any different from having a DSL. :(

i just got mine installed today, i did a test and it was 7kbps. lol
after hours on the phone finally someone said its still on order and should be functioning properly by midnight. why not just tell me that when you installed it instead of me wasting nearly 4 hours on various calls trying to ask whats going on. grrr.

anyway raises the questions - there are 3 alternatives to telus and shaw, juce, lightspeed and another one something out of ontario which dispite their telephone automated voice saying its only in ontario and quebec does offer service to BC when you finally talk to a real person.

So they offer slightly cheapre than the big two and give you unlimited data unlike the choke with telus etc. which is probably a good thing. Juce requires you to have shaw cable though, the other two use telus lines and they say if your telus is slow they won't be any better.

anyway does anyone go with someone other than telus or shaw? what are some good options out there? specifically Vancouver ISland...

On a grandfathered BB100 combo bundle with Shaw...

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I'm on bonded DSL. Nothing compared to one of my co-workers who has 1000/1000 fibre connection near SFU (and pays less than half of what I do).

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Only hope is the crappy Telus "fibre" being installed this summer, which will be artificially limited to 150 Mbps. A joke compared to rest of the 1st world IMO.

Shaw is raising their rates again in August. Sigh

Yep. With their cable tv subscribers declining they need to make up for it one way or the other.

Does anybody know what Telus fibre pricing is like? Or if there are bandwidth limits?

See my reply above. It's a joke and is 1:1 with their DSL offering. Nothing to dream about.

Got hooked up with Novus gigabit internet today. I was pleasantly surprised to learn my new condo was wired with fibre to each suite.

Incredibly, this is a free 12 month promo with no catch. $129/month after that. My thought is I'll drop down to one of their more standard packages, but this is pretty amazing.

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Cost? I'm getting fed up with my shaw internet.

If you're in a Novus-connected building I don't blame you.

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Changed our plan to the Shaw Internet 150 promo a week ago. $80 a month for two years but it is supposed to change to $130 a month after.

Check my message. Free for 12 months then $129/month.

Oh haha duh. Is it only available for fiber optic internet?

Yes.

Sorry missed your post. Yes. In fact I have fiber right into my suite, not sure if that is required or not. I wonder if this type of wiring is standard in all new condos that would already have fiber running down the street.

Shaw has the 150Mbps at $50 for the first year, $80 for the second year deal again. I was paying way more for 60 and should have more $$$ in two years so I jumped on it. As a competitive online gamer it's a no brainer.

Edit: yowza, love the over-delivery

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I'm waiting for Telus to finish installing fiber on my half of the condo building.. zzzz. 150/150 soon for the same price.

Just got the same service recently.

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Blast from the past.

I upgraded 2 months ago to 1GBit symmetrical from Novus in our building. Paying $112 per month with static IP, unlimited data download/upload. Don't have a speed test handy but my main computer gets around 970mbit up and 880mbit down on average.

We don't have cable TV and just stream everything and I run a business. It was also cheaper technically than the Internet 300/30 service I had from them before.

I had free gigabit from Novus for a year. It's pretty incredible, but I really couldn't take advantage of it. I downgraded to 100M (at $45/month + tax) which is still plenty for my needs, with multiple streaming feeds. Fiber to my suite means my latency is typically 1ms too which is nice. There's no comparison to Novus for pricing and service.