Drex_CS
join:2005-05-11
canada
| reply to Primis1
Re: Cable always has upload problems
said by Primis1  : Aside from your childish resorting to accusation of piracy because you're apparently bereft of any other argument...I find myself using upload more and more. Well you picked out 2 things in there that I'm not arguing. I only said the pirate thing because, be honest, how are going over 70 GB a month just downloading/uploading pic's from your friends? Doubtful...
One thing your missing (and it's a big thing) is that YOU are not the average user.
The Xtreme internet IS for media heavy users, as well as gamers, but it's pretty hard to be over the cap just doing that. When you start breaking 50GB that means your getting a lot of pod casts, downloading through p2p/torrent, etc.
I think the goal of Xtreme is not to download and upload music/movies/etc.. it's goal is to be able to watch stuff on websites and gaming. (Shaw's goal isn't to help you with p2p/torrent/etc) |
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Drex_CS
join:2005-05-11
canada
| reply to Wills
said by Wills :Are you expecting me to believe, that the largest cable provider in Canada, doesn't have 2 or 3 million just laying around? If your paying for the higher speeds, then you ARE using them. and the 2 or 3 million wasn't for thier whole network, that was for the specific area. If you wanted unlimited bandwidth, you'd be asking shaw to revamp every node in the country. (which would mean a lot more money)
By the way, incase some of you didn't know, shaw is already fixing this, Calgary and most of Edmonton have already had heavy upgrades done. The reason they haven't allowed higher usage is because of vancouver/lower mainland where the nodes *are* over crowded and one person doing a lot of trafic will slow up the rest. Give it a year or two and hopefully it'll all be done. |
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pfak
Premium
join:2002-12-29
Canada
 ·Shaw
 ·Novus Entertainmen..
| reply to TKJunkMail
Yes, the upstream sucks.
It sucks so badly that I am able to hose the whole upstream for my neighbourhood (800 homes) by uploading at more then 1Mbit/s.
See »Bad Latency
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Bandito
join:2003-01-23 | reply to Drex_CS
We've been waiting for a year now, and crowded nodes are still an issue. |
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Thingamajig
Premium
join:2004-11-03
B.C.
| reply to Wills
said by Wills :said by TKJunkMail : The cost to fix this solution for Shaw was 2 to 3 million dollars. Are you expecting me to believe, that the largest cable provider in Canada, doesn't have 2 or 3 million just laying around? The ones putting the larger demands on the systems ARE paying for it. They are paying a higher price for those higher speeds they'll never see. Only 3 million to fix these problems, yet Shaw chose to cap their users. That is greed, plain and simple. 2 to 3 million to repair?!? See where they are putting their money you've so generously given them...
»www.shaw.ca/en-ca/AboutShaw/Medi···eleases/
August 25 2005 - Purchase of 1,000,000 class B shares
January 20 2005 - Purchase of 200,000 class B shares
- Purchase of 43,500 class A shares
November 5 2004 - Purchase of 750,000 class B shares
All the shares purchased were in the $22-25 range in this time period. Thats 1993500 shares purchased using the $22 figure thats $43,857,000 to buy back their own stock in the past 12 months. Meanwhile the Greater Vancouver area has still not undergone any significant upgrades to alleviate congestion and throttling. The bold emphasis above rings true! |
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Drex_CS
join:2005-05-11
canada | reply to Bandito
how many years have people in the states been waiting for fiber/adsl2+ ??
I realize thier upgrades are not the best out in Vancover there, but atleast they're WORKING on it. |
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