I was one who recently moved and was forced to switch from telus Fiber (was getting 4 HD feeds and around 40mb down) to the new Gateway system on shaw.
The reason for the switch was that fiber is not available at my new house yet. Non Fiber Optik is IMO a waste of money.
A Few things I have noticed:
Upload speed was considerably better on telus, download speeds were more constant but slower (i have BB50 on shaw) Telus never once contacted me and I downloaded a lot, dam near 500-600gb a month. Shaw has yet to contact me but as mentioned above they do cap.
The new gateway system utterly blows away the Optik system when it comes to speed through menus and recording options, 6 HD feeds at once? Yes please. The most recent upgrade fixed the guide and the speed through the guide for me. I also feel IMO that shaw EXO seems to look better then Telus did on HD.
Shaw's supplied router does not play nice with my router making me have to eliminate it and instead use it as a repeater instead which is pretty much pointless however as the show router seems to have great range. It does lacks the 5ghz channel which is a downside.
Overall IMO you get much better channels for the money from Telus, You also get more reliable internet and upload speeds. The Shaw TV software system is considerably better as is the supplied hardware for TV and internet. If I remember correctly Shaw made me purchase the portals and it was rather expensive vs Telus renting them to me.
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