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Title: Telus in Coventry?
Post by: BUKI on January 13, 2012, 10:02:44 PM
Does anyone in Coventry/Country hills have Telus Internet?  Wondering if it's better than this shaw crap?  I am subscribing to broad band 100 and am getting 1.5 Mbps. Not the modem new cisco. Not the drop. Brand new. Levels are good. All techno jargon stuff good.  Been dealing with slow speeds for months.  I am at wits end. Just want confirmation on reliability before canceling
Title: Re: Telus in Coventry?
Post by: BUKI on January 13, 2012, 10:04:31 PM
Whoops posted this in wrong section should be in chit chat. Sorry please move
Title: Re: Telus in Coventry?
Post by: binare on January 13, 2012, 10:54:54 PM
Im lucky if i see 500kbits and I got no problems downloading upwardscof 10 or so movies a night... why you need so much man? Also... you could 1500mbits, wont make a difference if the source is slower then you are.
Title: Re: Telus in Coventry?
Post by: BUKI on January 14, 2012, 09:28:42 AM
No this is max attainable. Off of speedtest.net, speakeasy.net, shaw speedtest and telus speed test when I download 50 to 120 Kbps. And if my wife is online it times out.
Title: Re: Telus in Coventry?
Post by: BUKI on January 14, 2012, 09:29:42 AM
Ps Thanx for moving mods
Title: Re: Telus in Coventry?
Post by: Grease Nipple on January 14, 2012, 10:21:04 AM
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1707081989.png)
Title: Re: Telus in Coventry?
Post by: BUKI on January 14, 2012, 10:24:12 AM
Well that settles it.
Thank you very much
Title: Re: Telus in Coventry?
Post by: AstraX on January 14, 2012, 02:37:26 PM
Not in Coventry... but the north end.

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1707538391.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)
Title: Re: Telus in Coventry?
Post by: BUKI on January 14, 2012, 04:24:49 PM
I do believe tour off a different node. Mine is in the Chinese food restutant by the BK
Title: Re: Telus in Coventry?
Post by: JohnB on January 14, 2012, 05:33:04 PM
Gee how about you get Shaw to fix the problem???  I've always found their service great.  Telus service is horrid.

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1707752069.png)
Title: Re: Telus in Coventry?
Post by: BUKI on January 14, 2012, 06:27:10 PM
John b. I was shaw service for three years. I have a new rg11 drop that I laid in conduit. No splits but a 3 db pad which puts my levels very good at 6 over 49.  Technically there is nothing wrong with my service as far as anybody can do anything about. I even had a buddy in shaw maintanence tweak the trunk amp as best he could. Telus VDSL max attainable of 60 to 90 MBps Is slower than shows max but then again I'm not on my computer at 3 o'clock in the morning.
Title: Re: Telus in Coventry?
Post by: binare on January 14, 2012, 10:40:57 PM
Then you should know that twisted pair is maxxed out and until you move to a fiber neighbourhood, youll see better bandwidth on coax, which aint anywhere near its cap. Telus survives only by spending tons and tons of money pushing fiber.... problem is that its useless tol pre fiber neighbourhoods.... end dorkiness.
Title: Re: Telus in Coventry?
Post by: AstraX on January 15, 2012, 02:58:46 AM
John b. I was shaw service for three years. I have a new rg11 drop that I laid in conduit. No splits but a 3 db pad which puts my levels very good at 6 over 49.  Technically there is nothing wrong with my service as far as anybody can do anything about. I even had a buddy in shaw maintanence tweak the trunk amp as best he could. Telus VDSL max attainable of 60 to 90 MBps Is slower than shows max but then again I'm not on my computer at 3 o'clock in the morning.

Is it possible your node is overloaded?  When we got our cable finally connected in our house it was slow as sin.  Turned out that they hadn't split the node yet and there were 3 times as many lines running through it than there should have been.

John, are you on a 100mbps plan?  My plan is the 50mbps for reference.
Title: Re: Telus in Coventry?
Post by: JohnB on January 15, 2012, 08:17:24 AM
John b. I was shaw service for three years. I have a new rg11 drop that I laid in conduit. No splits but a 3 db pad which puts my levels very good at 6 over 49.  Technically there is nothing wrong with my service as far as anybody can do anything about. I even had a buddy in shaw maintanence tweak the trunk amp as best he could. Telus VDSL max attainable of 60 to 90 MBps Is slower than shows max but then again I'm not on my computer at 3 o'clock in the morning.

What?  You said you were getting 1.5 M with a 100 M service.  There is something seriously wrong and they will fix it.  If my service is ever running below 90% of what I pay for they get over and fix it.
Title: Re: Telus in Coventry?
Post by: BUKI on January 15, 2012, 05:37:01 PM
Then you should know that twisted pair is maxxed out and until you move to a fiber neighbourhood, youll see better bandwidth on coax, which aint anywhere near its cap. Telus survives only by spending tons and tons of money pushing fiber.... problem is that its useless tol pre fiber neighbourhoods.... end dorkiness.

That is seriously the dumbest thing I've ever heard. If twisted pair was maxed out then cat6 (4 twisted pair) would not run gigabit. And coax runs RF.  And furthermore as a Telus tech I'll tell you their is fiber to every CO in this city and to most  xconns/jwi/sacs.  It's all about attenuation the further you are from the DSLAM the slower you get. Here's the thing if you qualify for 80 you get 80 all the time.  Not at 3 Inn the morn.  Thi is not an argument on who knows more on telecom. It I simply a thing of I prefered shaw. But they do need to split the NODE again it Is overcrowded by to many people in the neighborhood who have shaw services and are using them at peak times. I only wanted to know about what current Telus customers in my area thought about their service as of today. NOT what they thought about them 5 years ago.
Who knows I may go back to shaw after the node split finally happens
Title: Re: Telus in Coventry?
Post by: BUKI on January 15, 2012, 05:45:14 PM
What?  You said you were getting 1.5 M with a 100 M service.  There is something seriously wrong and they will fix it.  If my service is ever running below 90% of what I pay for they get over and fix it.

Yes John b. There is something seriously wrong with the service. But it is not something that would be worth fixing for now (not cost effective).  With shaw they cannot adjust for SNR. Out of most techs scope of work. That has to be adjusted at the trunk amp. But if you adjust for this, one cust might have some bad signal while 20 others would be fine. You woul want to lose the one to correct for all the rest.  This I believe is not the case ad my node needs to be split again and was told it was supposed to happen in the summer but didn't.
Title: Re: Telus in Coventry?
Post by: binare on January 15, 2012, 05:50:07 PM
Twisted PAIR is NOT cat6. Fibre is NOT run into a home in Coventry Hills. A home in up there ends in twisted pair... keep your insults to yourself thank you very much ;-)
Title: Re: Telus in Coventry?
Post by: BUKI on January 15, 2012, 05:58:37 PM
Haha their are houses up here with fibre. "END DORKINESS"  >:(

http://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CDUQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FCategory_6_cable&rct=j&q=cat%206&ei=kXYTT9bEMIfkiALvp8S6DQ&usg=AFQjCNFNfibpCAVcFnCzHem9TM9BkQ2BUg

Cat 6 is twisted pair no matter which way you look at it it's twisted.  just a larger gauge. Hence the reason you can use it for jumper wire.
Title: Re: Telus in Coventry?
Post by: Grease Nipple on January 15, 2012, 09:09:55 PM
Hey Mike, I was just about to ask if you wanted a job on the business side, but I just found out you drive a YJ ;)
Title: Re: Telus in Coventry?
Post by: binare on January 15, 2012, 09:21:02 PM
Haha their are houses up here with fibre. "END DORKINESS"  >:(

http://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CDUQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FCategory_6_cable&rct=j&q=cat%206&ei=kXYTT9bEMIfkiALvp8S6DQ&usg=AFQjCNFNfibpCAVcFnCzHem9TM9BkQ2BUg

Cat 6 is twisted pair no matter which way you look at it it's twisted.  just a larger gauge. Hence the reason you can use it for jumper wire.

no, its FOUR twisted pairs. Lets turn up the tard here a notch or two more eh. Go look at your d mark and tell me what it is. It aint friggin cat6. If its not fiber its a single twisted pair. I have a BCS in communications, I understand mang ;-)
Title: Re: Telus in Coventry?
Post by: BUKI on January 15, 2012, 09:53:32 PM
The single twisted pair is from the DSLAM to the house regardless it is still twisted like cat 6, and cat 5 can run data on the orange and green depending on distance can still run 54 Mbps even if it is only rated for 10.  I think you need to brush up (not trying to by a dink) Because I see 110 at the sac and 80 at the dmarc. If this is MAXED OUT I'll tell you that's friggen quick. It may not be 2 or three pairs (for attenuation purposes only) but that's still super fast not as fast as shaw after peak hours.  Technology changes too fast for anybody to say Telus sucks 3 years ago and still have a grudge about it when their service may not be as fast as shaw but still faster than anyone really needs.  All I need is a guaranteed 15 Mbps. Shaw cannot handle this at this time. So the whole point of this thread was just to find out how people who have Telus think of it.  You can't make a statement that twisted pair is maxed out.  AT WHAT speed because if it's 110 or 250 or even 50. In my opinion that is so redundant. I know my way around "ICE" and torrents and that is more than I'll ever use. At that point the server on the other end isn't going to keep up.  And since I'm a tard. A bcs means nothing in the field.  My grandfather was mayor of Calgary, that doesn't mean he could run the country.  ;)