Anyone have fiber connections with Telus?

[rage2]

Looking for feedback on performance, uptimes, support services.

Thanks.

[Ben]

I'll get back to you

[rage2]

haha I don't want to get feedback from Telus employees!

[bol]

TAC is generally good, with decent support, but you get what you pay for right? You have to pay the big bucks to get good on-site support.

Best experiences I've had with big connections is with Sprint, their guys are usually fairly knowledgable and are onsite pretty quickly when theres a problem.

GT is so-so, and they're being bought by 360 Networks right now so who knows what's going to happen with that situation.

My vote is for Sprint though.

[Ben]

Dude, I have Shaw Internet, trust me I am Unbaised

[buh_buh]

Originally posted by Benny
Dude, I have Shaw Internet, trust me I am Unbaised

haha, that statement right there says how good Telus internet connections are. A Telus employee uses Shaw internet?!

[Ben]

Well when I pay lass for shaw than I would with telus even with the discount, why would I pay more?> haha

Besides, ADSL and the FIBER offered by TAC is 2 different things.

[rage2]

Originally posted by bol
TAC is generally good, with decent support, but you get what you pay for right? You have to pay the big bucks to get good on-site support.

Don't worry, we're ponying up the big bucks . The support I'm worried about is if the service goes down, how long it takes to bring it back up, and how "smart" their techs are. The GT guys are terrible, I've had so many "need to go to office at 3am" incidents it's not funny. They claim they need access to our office so I have to meet the techs there, but they have full access to the downstairs main networking rooms already. Crap like that sucks.

Originally posted by bol
Best experiences I've had with big connections is with Sprint, their guys are usually fairly knowledgable and are onsite pretty quickly when theres a problem.

I've talked to Sprint sales guys and they seem even more knowledgable than the GT techs! Unfortunately, I was never happy with Sprint's routing... they have some really poor routing to many places. Maybe it's better now?

Originally posted by bol
GT is so-so, and they're being bought by 360 Networks right now so who knows what's going to happen with that situation.

hehe no kidding, getting bankrupcy protection, then getting bought out by a company that just came out of bankrupcy protection. This is why I'm pursuing telus... their prices are pretty decent compared to the competition.

I looked at UUNET and Big Pipe as well, but those guys think I'm rich or something!

[bol]

Only routing troubles I ever had with Sprint was with their UUNet links, but those problems ended about a year or so ago it seems.

If you do go with TAC lemme know what they're like since I haven't touched them in about 18 months.

[RickDaTuner]

um exactly what are talking about?

[Ben]

Originally posted by RickDaTuner
um exactly what are talking about?

More than you can afford pal..Fiber Optics...

haha

corporate ISP's basically.

[RickDaTuner]

Originally posted by Benny


More than you can afford pal..Fiber Optics...

haha

corporate ISP's basically.

probably man sound like high roller stuff, geek high roller, but high roller none the less

all i know is dial up cable T1 T2 T3 and ADSL thats about all i know oh wait wireless network card, yeah thats about it

[Dirty_SOHC]

rage take a look into Bell West, we may have what you need. Plus if it breaks, I'll have to fix it for you

[GTS Jeff]

Originally posted by RickDaTuner
um exactly what are talking about?

from what i can tell...

expanding beyond.ca capacity!

[RSeXy]

my adsl connection is the worst! i swear when i had dial-up it was better! i'll be talking on msn and most of my msgs won't get across b/c the connection goes down! it ALWAYS goes down.

its probably the people that i get when i call to complain...but its realllllly bad customer service as well.

i obviously haven't talked to Benny!

[Redlyne_mr2]

Originally posted by Benny


More than you can afford pal..Fiber Optics...

haha

corporate ISP's basically.

Man you guys are the biggest computer geeks ever

[rage2]

Originally posted by Captain_Dirty
rage take a look into Bell West, we may have what you need. Plus if it breaks, I'll have to fix it for you

hehe I refuse to support Bell . Trying to take away my rights to Howard Stern!

And if you have Telus ADSL, this has nothing to do with it . DSL and Fiber is run by 2 completely different groups.

And in case anyone is wondering what I'm buying, it's a 10mbit full duplex fiber line. Possibly 30mbit depending on company's growth.

[Redlyne_mr2]

Originally posted by rage2


hehe I refuse to support Bell . Trying to take away my rights to Howard Stern!

Im the same way I hate bell and hope that that dirty ass company full of thieves goes under

[Dirty_SOHC]

Originally posted by Redlyne_mr2

Im the same way I hate bell and hope that that dirty ass company full of thieves goes under

and you rather give your money to Telus??

[Redlyne_mr2]

Originally posted by Captain_Dirty


and you rather give your money to Telus??

absolutely they never keep me on hold for 30 minutes, or over charge me on my minutes, or try to sell me every phone feature in the world when I call for service, or invoice me two hundred dollars on my phone bill when Im away from my place for an entire month!!!!!!!