energysolutions

Ok, so fibre optic is called "cable", apart from those two (cheers BTW) are there any others?

Ideally thats what I'd like

Almost Canadian

Are you rural? I can't imagine a city provider being that slow.

Out in the boonies where we are I get in the region of 8Mb down and 1Mb up with 80Gb of data for not much more than you are paying.

In the City, Shaw was much, much faster and cheaper.

Siouxie

This might help you - DSL reports and reviews for fibre connections, Canada. They also have them for cable etc.

http://www.dslreports.com/reviews?c=ca&slo=1

Here's my current connection speed:



Edit: Just realised they have a 'cost' chart too! http://www.dslreports.com/gbu

energysolutions

72Mb - Impressive.......

Those comparison sites will keep me out of mischief for a while

Cheers

Steve_P

No fibre optic is not called cable. Cable in term of internet is coaxial not fibre optic although Shaw is moving to fibre optic in some of the very new neighborhoods.

If you're moving to Edmonton your two major internet providers are going to be Telus ADSL service provided through telephone lines sometimes fibre optic but most likely good old fashioned copper telephone lines. Shaw cable provided through for the most part coaxial cable although as I said earlier possibly fibre optic in very new neighborhoods.

As Almost Canadian has already said Shaw in the city is much faster than Telus.

I'm with Shaw in Calgary and have what Shaw calls Broadband 50 or 50mbps download speed (I consistently get between 45 and 48mbps) and a download limit of 400 gigabytes per month.

Shaw Internet packages can be seen at this link. http://www.shaw.ca/internet/packages/ They also have 100mbps and 250mbps packages available for a price. Although you have already mentioned you're not really interested in TV or phone, your internet package does get discounted if you take one or both of the other services.

Telus appears to be much more limited for download speeds it seems they only offer 15mbps and 25mbps packages. http://telus.com/content/internet/optik/

Cheers
Steve

TS00

Yes, I am saying exactly that.

But don't get too excited about it, as you will still pay more than you do in the UK for the line rental + ADSL.

TS00

No, within city limit, but small city.

dbd33

Never measured it. Not quite fast enough to be able to listen to songs on youtube.

TS00

HaHa!

dbd33

That's how I measure it. When we moved here the man came and hooked us up and I played Night In My Veins. It worked so I signed the contract. It's a bit better than Bell ADSL was.

TS00

If you're curious, this is a good test:

http://www.speedtest.net/

dbd33

3.08b down .49 up I don't know what the numbers were for Bell but this is noticeably better.

TS00

That's plenty fast enough to stream video.

dbd33

Here, yes. That's a line-of-sight connection to a device mounted on a feed silo. It was the Bell telephone line connection that was too slow.

energysolutions

Thanks Steve, thats the sort of detailed info I was after - I will have a look at both packages but Shaw sounds like it has an edge

Regarding the ADSL, is it like the UK where speeds taper off at peak times due to congestion/contention ratio etc etc or is it pretty stable?