Shaw Wide Open Internet 150 launch.

[eblend]

Originally posted by benyl
It updates after your cycle completes.

Don't know if you are responding to me or not, but it never showed up for me, it was in April. Uploaded about 1.2TB just to online backup.

[schocker]

Originally posted by Mitsu3000gt
My Hitron has been strangely flawless - can you get them to switch you over to the new Cisco?

I asked on a chat with tech support and they were telling me the hitron is the only modem available. Maybe I will check if I can't get it working once I get home. Would be nice to have it reliable as it is going down about once every other week, but usually at night seemingly in time with those maintenance periods. I suppose house could have burned down and I don't know because the smoke detectors lost wifi

[LilDrunkenSmurf]

Modem consistently dying now. Unable to come back online until I do a power cycle. Getting real fed up losing my connection to home.

I was also told that I had to use the Hitron model for Shaw 120 and Shaw 150. The cisco will apparently only work on 100 or less.

[flipstah]

Cisco doesn't make modems anymore, so it's all Hitron now.

[Zhariak]

Originally posted by LilDrunkenSmurf
Modem consistently dying now. Unable to come back online until I do a power cycle. Getting real fed up losing my connection to home.

I was also told that I had to use the Hitron model for Shaw 120 and Shaw 150. The cisco will apparently only work on 100 or less.

If you can, give them a call and notify them of this...

There was an issue where when backend maintenance was done, the modems wouldn't provide internet access after the work was done... Requiring a power cycle...

It's occured to me, and a client of mine a bunch of times.

Last time I spoke with Shaw, they confirmed they became aware of the issue and were working on a fix.

It would still be good to report it though, as if they know, they may make the fix more urgent...

[LilDrunkenSmurf]

Tech is coming to look this weekend apparently. I expect he'll swap out the modem, tell me to keep an eye on it, it won't be bridged anymore, and I'll still have the issue.

But hey, maybe I'll get lucky and shit'll start working.

They couldn't remotely reset it.

[flipstah]

Hardware swap should solve the intermittent resets. Could've been a bad batch.

[realazy]

I was reading in this thread about the Hitron being the only modem and was wondering why mine never had issues.

I guess I got lucky? I signed up in the middle of August and got a Cisco modem. It's been flawless for me.

[SportEL]

Telus sent me a promo of $80/year for 150 for 2 years with my choice of a $200 Visa prepaid card or 8" Samsung tablet. It's still not comparable to Shaw's offering.

[GoChris]

Originally posted by SportEL
Telus sent me a promo of $80/year for 150 for 2 years with my choice of a $200 Visa prepaid card or 8" Samsung tablet. It's still not comparable to Shaw's offering.

Well...it's a little bit comparable. If you take the $200 as that's exact and tangible, then you'd be paying ~$6.66/mn more for Telus. The difference being, you get 10x the upload speed over Shaw. If you don't care to upload much or don't need the speed, then $6 is $6 and Shaw is a better deal.

[SportEL]

Originally posted by GoChris


Well...it's a little bit comparable. If you take the $200 as that's exact and tangible, then you'd be paying ~$6.66/mn more for Telus. The difference being, you get 10x the upload speed over Shaw. If you don't care to upload much or don't need the speed, then $6 is $6 and Shaw is a better deal.

Actually it is quite more than that as it is ($80-$49.10 X 12 months) - $200 Visa card = $170.80 more per year divided 12 months = $14.23 more per month for the first year.

And I didn't realize this was if you were bundling with something else so if it is just internet like I just have it's $85/month which means it's $19.23 more per month.

I don't know much about upload speed. I just download everything and don't know if that even matters much if the upload is higher.

[LilDrunkenSmurf]

Small update. Shaw came out and swapped the Hitron modem, and I haven't had an issue since. Looks like it was a hardware issue.

[Hero_X]

Question guys:

Which is better to have, hitron or Cisco? And why?

[Kavy]

My Hiltron works fine. Until it doesn't I don't see an issue having either one.

[Mitsu3000gt]

Still no issues with my Hitron. Probably just a bad initial batch. Just complain and get them to come give you a new Hitron. My only complaint is that it's huge.

[BensonTT]

Are you guys bridging the Hitron or just using it as is?

[Mitsu3000gt]

Bridging and using my own router. The Hitron router is OK but not as good as something like an R7000. If you tell them you want it bridged before it gets installed you won't have to call in later, but they can do it after the fact too.

[schocker]

Mine is bridged with an R7000. Mine came bridged though, not sure if it was an account setting.

[J.M.]

Bridged using R7000 router as well. Finally getting great DL speeds on 5G

[403ep3]

POS Shaw? Anyone down in Nolan or anywhere in the NW?

They gave me a netgear? Shit or no? I've had to restart a couple times and I've had it two weeks