 Review by invictive 
UPDATED: 102 days ago
member for 8 years, 702 visits, last login: 20 days ago
 Saanichton,BC
 $58 per month
 about 5 days
 "Fast reliable speed"
 "Some throttling"
 "Very reliable fast connection, some throttling but not noticeable unless you are a heavy downloader"
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I signed up for Shaw's 10mb package in my new apartment and the installer showed up 5 days later (on time). Installer was very knowledgeable and helpful and had everything setup and running in minutes.
The speed is very reliable at 1.1mb/s download speed. There is occasionally some throttling during peak hours (maybe 2 or 3 times a week for a few hours). Shaw's throttling is nothing like Bell's. The throttling only seems to be when the node is busy (Thursday and Friday nights) and only on certain protocols (ftp). I have not tried torrenting on the connection.
I am very happy with the connection and have had 100% percent uptime since signing up 5 months ago.
The package has a cap of 100gb/month but I have not been penalized for going over... yet...
There is supposedly Power Boost enabled on my connection, it worked fine for the first couple of months, but stopped working after that. My installer told me it would only be enabled when there was spare headroom on the node. I have no reason to complain though because all of my downloads are fast and Power Boost wasn't the reason I signed up.
Have never had any reason to deal with tech support.
UPDATE:
I moved a few months ago and getting service hooked up at my new place was as simple as a quick call to support and a tech showed up the next day to do the install. The 10Mbps package I used to have has now been upgraded to 15Mbps at no extra charge, and Powerboost seems to be working (I mean really working!) Download speeds for small files are around 3MB/s and large files hover around 1.8-1.9 MB/s. I do not download torrents from home (thats what seedboxes are for) but I have noticed that individual FTP transfers are throttled to about 350KB/s. This can be overcome by running multiple FTP transfers. However I usually use SFTP which is not throttled and I can usually pull a steady 1.9MB/s.
The cap on my connection is 100GB/Month, however I usually use 200GB/Month and have not had to pay any overage charges yet.
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