Review by zytsef 
Posted: 51 days ago
member for 2.3 years, 23 visits, last login: 36 days ago
 Vancouver,BC
 $29 per month
 about 10 days
 "cheap promotional price"
 "slow to get installation"
 "good enough"
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I originally attempted to go with DSL service because it's generally a little cheaper only to find out that the shack I live in has wiring problems. Contacted Shaw the same day. Got a special promotional price on their High-Speed Xtreme package for the first 7 months. $30/month for 10M/1M advertised, 100GB cap, regularly about $51.
Seems like they're very busy, though, since they told me it would take 10 days to get a tech out to install. The tech was late by an hour and a half but we plugged in the modem and everything was working within about 5 minutes without problems. A Motorola SB5102 modem is provided as part of the monthly price.
Initial tests are pretty decent. Between 6Mb and 7Mb down and roughly 800Kb down, no packet loss and an average latency of 70ms. Not as impressive as they advertise and probably not worth $50/month, but it will do nicely for the next 7 months.
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