Any good deals for Shaw Cable?

[FallenAngel]

My promotional deal with Telus is about to expire, and they are jacking the price up by quite a bit. I was wondering if anybody knew of any good deals with Shaw right now.

Not really interested in a Cable TV bundle with it, looking more for some sort of "installation and modem included" deal.

I suppose I should ask if anybody has the "Lite" version of Shaw and if it is as slow as it sounds.

Thanks in advance.

[xDiMSuMx]

i'm working on saturday at chinook 3-9 at the shaw cable booth
u can come see me if u want
right now we're offering a rebate kinda thing for the modem
so u pay 60 for the modem, then $60 goes back onto your bill
u also get 1st month free and if ur not going with cable tv then your next 6 mths are 29.95/mth and after that it's 37.95/mth

Lite is slow if u download
if u just look at emails or do research it's fine

[Marsh]

^ haha u fag u beat me to it

[xDiMSuMx]

.......yea if u see a brown guy named Marsh that works there
don't sign up with him
he'll touch u innapropriately

[Ed the SOHC]

I'm on lite speed. It's alright.... definitely faster than dail-up but slow if you do any gaming or download movies/apps/music. If you are just on the net to read email and to do moderate surfing lite speed is a good option for you.

[hjr]

its basically about $41 a month (incl. tax) for a better service than telus offers. if you go to surftime you will get a free modem. if you go to shaw directly, not a free modem. its a tough choice

[googe]

Go with telus or nucleus DSL, unless you download really big files.

Shaw lite is about 2-3 times faster than dialup, it sucks...Im on it right now. It costs $29 a month.

Telus and Nucleus DSL are both $29 a month, and about 30 times faster than dialup.

Shaw high speed is faster than both of these, and is $41 a month. If you dont download big files often (big like movies) then you dont need this.

After being on lite for a month I can tell you there is no reason to pay for it whatsoever when telus and nucleus will offer DSL 15 times faster for the same price.

[Gonthro]

dsl is great for big files, and they wond disconnect you for using too much bandwidth like shaw does.

[BebeAphrodite]

Omg.. adsl feels wayy toooo slow when opening pages. I like my pages to appear right away and I would rather pay for the instant loads than to pay a fraction of the cost and wait longer for the load. I'm impatient.

[googe]

Originally posted by CuteAsianAngel
Omg.. adsl feels wayy toooo slow when opening pages. I like my pages to appear right away and I would rather pay for the instant loads than to pay a fraction of the cost and wait longer for the load. I'm impatient.

Its gotta be an issue with your software. DSL tops out at 187k/sec, thats far beyond whats needed to load pages instantly. Spyware maybe?

[Xpnsve]

I like telus, but they block ports... oh well... nothing like port 2121

[BebeAphrodite]

I dunno....
I noticed the difference asap. I switched from Shaw over to DSL and it nearly felt like dial up again!! It was so frustrating. Then I moved outta the house and stopped using the DSL and went back to shaw.
Probably then, ha ha ha

[Ed the SOHC]

Originally posted by googe
After being on lite for a month I can tell you there is no reason to pay for it whatsoever when telus and nucleus will offer DSL 15 times faster for the same price.

There is one problem w/ Telus (imo)... their policies. Have you ever try to fight a billing issue. I did, 3 times... swore Telus off forever!!!

[googe]

Originally posted by Ed the SOHC


There is one problem w/ Telus (imo)... their policies. Have you ever try to fight a billing issue. I did, 3 times... swore Telus off forever!!!

I havent, nucleus offers a better DSL package for the same price anyway though

[Ed the SOHC]

Originally posted by googe


I havent, nucleus offers a better DSL package for the same price anyway though

do i need to have a home phone for this?

[googe]

Originally posted by Ed the SOHC


do i need to have a home phone for this?

i am fairly sure nucleus will do whats called a "dry line" installation...you have to have a phone line coming into your house but it doesnt have to be active. may want to call and see though.

[Gonthro]

Originally posted by googe


i am fairly sure nucleus will do whats called a "dry line" installation...you have to have a phone line coming into your house but it doesnt have to be active. may want to call and see though.

no they wont, i inquired about this before i got my phone line.

i just got a flyer for 3web cable internet, they're just piggybacking off shaw but its only $20 for 3 months and then $30 after that IIRC

[FallenAngel]

Originally posted by Gonthro


no they wont, i inquired about this before i got my phone line.

i just got a flyer for 3web cable internet, they're just piggybacking off shaw but its only $20 for 3 months and then $30 after that IIRC

I got that flyer too, I'm a little leery about 3web though. I recall the old days of dialup that they had a lot of advertisements that you had to wade through.

I'm not sure if they do anything like that now, but they're still kind of sketchy.

[Kamen]

I'm on shaw extreme aka extreme bandwith abuse lol
It's super fast and about $51 a month regular but I'm still paying the promo $39/month.
IMO it's great. Damn fast everything without any traffic limit to worry about.

[Ven]

Telus DSL is a turd, I only went on it for the 24.99 1 year promo when I moved. Before that I was on Shaw HighSpeed and it was soooooooooo much faster than Telus with a lot less service problems in my area. Couple weeks ago I went back to Shaw and upgraded to the xtreme speed, it's damn good, how highspeed should be. Typical speeds are 4800down/980up.