Upgrade to the new Shaw modem FREE

[BlackArcher101]

Originally posted by S. Goertzen
Shaw in Red Deer



I have a modem that stands up, and says "TERAYON" on the front. Is it worth trading in. I've also been told that you can buy much faster ones from a computer store rather than shaw. Also the network card in the computer makes a difference as well.

Yes, that's the older one. It runs on a seperate system from Docsis (the motorola's). They want to get rid of this system entirely. If you take the modem in, they will exchange it for a newer docsis model. Definitely take advantage of this.

Cable modems aren't available in computer stores, that's only in the USA. Here you have to buy them either online and hope you can use it, or from the ISP itself. I have the SB5101 and have no complaints.

[88CRX]

what kinda number should i be getting with shaw?

mine currently are

4019 and 143

[BlackArcher101]

Originally posted by 88CRX
what kinda number should i be getting with shaw?

mine currently are

4019 and 143

Depends, what package do you subscribe to or how much do you pay?

Assuming you are on regular high speed, you should be getting at the most 5000 and 512.

[saiyajin]

Originally posted by wainr


wtf is with your latency?

Turn off your bittorent before running this test..

i didnt have any downloads going at all when i ran it..

anyways did another one



and another right after



then tried Vancouver after that...



i'd have to say its not very accurate i dunno ..

[RX_EVOLV]

Shaw Extreme via Wireless G

tried again 1 min later

[gpomp]

[mo_money2supe]

Tried both from Calgary:


And from Vancouver:


I first thought it was 'cause I'm in Saskatoon - somewhat far from Calgary, but even on Vancouver's server, there's really no difference. I've noticed SaskTel's adsl was slow, but I didn't think it was THIS much slower!



Oh, and just for reference, here's the stats from when I was doing some uploading to an ftp server:

Still really no difference.

[codetrap]

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[Canadian 2.5RS]

Originally posted by brendankharris


holy crap, try restarting and running it again.. do you have torrents running or something that is bandwidth hungry?

Yeah I was downloading torrents and crap like that.


This is my new one. Still slow though. It might be bacause I am on a wireless card though.

[tcjsa]

So can anyone definitively confirm that trading in my Cybersurfer modem for a new one will increase my connection speeds? Or at least guarantee that they will not decrease?

Maybe I should try borrowing a new Shaw modem from a friend and compare the two, before I make the switch.

Thanks.

[CaseoftheEX]

I just had a SHAW tech come to my house. He said the Docsis modem is a lot better than the old Cybersurf ones because

1) Faster, better chip on the circuit board. Can take in and send out up to 5x more data.

2) More stable - most of their service calls are using their old modems and are wanting to replace all the old ones with the new one because of this.

3) With the recent addition of Shaw Secure, extreme will soon replace high speed and light will be gone - as its too slow and most of them end up going to high speed anyways. So give it time, soon you will get extreme for the price you are paying of high speed. So they want to get as many users on the extreme modem as they can right now to be prepared for later on.

I mean cmon this is the extreme modem you are getting for free, why would you not want it?

[Unknown303]

That Vancouver one seems to get good numbers.

[dreamchaser]

i think with these new modems shaw can monitor your traffic.. imean they can tell how much downloaded / uploaded.

[gpomp]

Originally posted by dreamchaser
i think with these new modems shaw can monitor your traffic.. imean they can tell how much downloaded / uploaded.

they've been doing this 10 years ago when they had the white cybersurfer modems...

[messiah0]

on shaw as well

[Alterac]

Originally posted by dreamchaser
i think with these new modems shaw can monitor your traffic.. imean they can tell how much downloaded / uploaded.

Originally posted by gpomp

they've been doing this 10 years ago when they had the white cybersurfer modems...

The Old modems lost the statistics when you power cycled them, the new modems keep track of the usage no matter what. So its more accurate.

[omagedon]

Oh, so people who have old modems should power cycle them every once in awhile

[Roadrage]

Originally posted by Canadian 2.5RS


Im on shaw. Why the hell is mine soooo slow??

If you didn't say Shaw, I'd say dial up? Those are ugly looking speeds.

[Alterac]

Originally posted by tcjsa
So can anyone definitively confirm that trading in my Cybersurfer modem for a new one will increase my connection speeds? Or at least guarantee that they will not decrease?

Maybe I should try borrowing a new Shaw modem from a friend and compare the two, before I make the switch.

Thanks.

Alright, this is the skinny.

Old modems, No real cap on speeds, they pretty much maxed out at 7megabits.

New Shaw modems, they have caps builtin, but are much better at handling high loads and upstream traffic.

Extreme - 10 mebagibts down, 1 megabit up
Regular - 5 megabits down, 0.5 megabits up.

If you are getting more than 5megabits right now on regular shaw service and dont want to upgrade, and are not worried about upload speed, stay with it. If not, get a new modem.

[Importz]

hi i have this one!! is this the newest modem shaw has or there is a newer model>??

http://media.dl.matrixau.net/images/2690_MotImage.jpg