Review by TheMG 
UPDATED: 1 year ago
member for 1.1 years, 437 visits, last login: 1 days ago
 Edmonton,AB
 $50 per month (month by month)
 about 3 days
 "Fastest available (when it's working properly)."
 "Speed drops and high pings during peak hours."
 "Good for downloading, terrible for online gaming."
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I'm in Edmonton Alberta, and have the Extreme-I package standalone (no bundle). Speeds are great during the morning and daytime, almost reaching the full advertised speed of 10mbps downstream and 1mbps upstream. 30-60 ping to Seattle game servers.
During the evening though, things get unpredictable. Some evenings will be just fine, other times the download speeds can drop as low as 1.5mbps and upload down to 120kbps, with the pings averaging 160-180 to Seattle servers with spikes as high as 500, as well as 25% upstream packet loss over UDP! This is absolutely BRUTAL for playing online games. This has been going on for the past 2 months.
Unless Shaw fixes their network to handle the increased demand, stay away from them if you are an evening online gamer.
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