|
/month including modem |
/month including modem |
| consistent bandwidth availability |
Speed varies drastically by time of day since you share a cable with your
neighbours. |
| My Speed with Telus.net cable |
|---|
Upload
KBytes/sec |
Download
KByte/set |
Test |
|---|
| __ |
__ |
Shaw.ca no permission from Telus IP. |
| 62 |
158 |
BroadBandReports Speakeasy, in Seattle, midnight |
| 62 |
137 |
Numion, 7 PM |
| 62 |
143 |
Toast, 7 PM |
| __ |
155 |
Pitstop, 7 PM |
. |
| My Speed with Shaw.ca cable |
|---|
Upload
KBytes/sec |
Download
KByte/set |
Test |
|---|
| 56 |
240 |
Shaw.ca, in Vancouver, midnight |
| 55 |
182 |
BroadBandReports Speakeasy, in Seattle, midnight |
| 30 |
99 |
Numion, midnight |
| 57 |
76 |
Toast, midnight |
| __ |
74 |
Pitstop |
| __ |
50-60 |
Typical late night, Opera browser |
| __ |
4-50 |
Typical daytime, Opera browser |
|
| private line to phone company. |
shared line to cable company, fairly easy for other subscribers to snoop on
your traffic. |
| 3 email addresses, you can also have aliases, but they all forward to the
same account. You get them via the add product menu
as if you were ordering new services. You can freely access via pop3, smtp or
webmail from a non-Telus ISP. |
3 email addresses. You can only access via webmail from a non-Shaw ISP. |
| 5 static IP addresses for the small business package, 2 dynamic IPs for home
users. You get a different IP every time you reboot your router. |
2 dynamic IPs that stay stable for months even when you neboot the router. |
| Install requires windows software, IE and ActiveX enabled (arrgh!). Install
insists on using DHCP. |
no special software required. |
| 2 weeks wait for install. |
3 weeks wait for install. |
| 10 MB for your personal website |
seven 10 MB personal websites |
| fast newsserver. Keeps a months of backlog |
newsserver too slow for on demand use; must queue up a batch. Keeps only a
week or so of old posts. |
| Two account names with two passwords(usually the same), and should not
duplicate any email id or be easily guessable. The OCA account is for
registering your MAC address. The login account is for administration of email,
your website etc. You cannot change these. In addition there are 3 user-changeable
email accounts. These can each have aliases, that are automatically forwarded to
the actual account. You have also your phone number, and your account number. In
addition each email account has three account names. Telus use the word account
for all of these names. It is mind boggling. Some consistent terminology, with a
glossary would help: phone number, billing account, OCA account, Internet
account, email account, alias name. |
A numeric account number; a customer care account name, and the modem serial
number also acts as an account id. In addition each email acount has a name. |
| transparently shares your phone line. |
transparently shares your cable TV connection. (If you don’t have one,
it is
extra.) |
| online database claims services is available, but you discover it is not
when you talk to a human. New ADSL equipment allows sites formerly disqualified
to be used. |
online database claims services is available, but you discover it is not
when you talk to a human. |
| Heavily advertises the service. May move into entertainment content using
the same link. |
Heavily advertises the service. Phone service available through companies
like Vonage over the same link. |
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