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Review by MerinX See Profile

  • Location: undisclosed location
  • Cost: $86 per month
No Usage Based Billing Yet
Whiny about Bandwith Limits and Costs way too much
Go with Novus Teksavvy sasktel if you use a lot and do not need the faster speeds
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Been with Shaw for years until they cut off my Internet right before the Alberta floods, Switched to Telus 50. So far so good, more updates to come.

Might Switch back to it tho probably go with Teksavvy in light of Telus's Usage Based billing plans.

member for 13.1 years, 296 visits, last login: 8.2 years ago
updated 9 years ago

pinjas
join:2011-01-31
River Falls, WI

pinjas

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Yuck

Most ISPs have fair usage regulations. I don't particularly love that concept, there are other options though, depending on where you love.

If I was in your situation, I would strongly consider doing what Monticello MN did. Their local ISP had some poor prices with poor service and the population became fed up so the town started their own fiber ISP. They didn't have it nearly as bad as you seem to in terms of prices, if you were on the moon or deep under the oceans surface, I might say those are acceptable prices. But I bet you are well within the reaches of fiber optic cables.

The mark up is kind of outrageous, but giving them a zero percent ranking is like they raped your mother or something. They just charge harsh pricing, everything else sounds likely to work well. Start up an ISP, or shop for another if it is an option.

MerinX
Crunching for Cures
Premium Member
join:2011-02-03

MerinX

Premium Member

Re: Yuck

It does not work like that in Canada anymore bro, it is a 2 party system like in the states where they can get away with anything.

Can you honestly say it is acceptable for an isp that has more market dominance then any American ISP can get away with 75gig limits on 100 dollars tiers?

We have cable or DSL from to providers that collude to lower limits and enforce these inflated fees. Heck our regulators where just about to enforce these limits on wholesale independent isps saying a 15% discount on them was more then fair because bell said so....
15% off a 10000% markup up per gig great...(especially when you can enforce it on customers that are not your own)

The system is broken so any isp that supports such actions should get a zero in scores regardless of how fast they install service etc.
Roofer
join:2010-11-24

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to pinjas
said by pinjas:

Most ISPs have fair usage regulations.

Those of you who are fortunate enough to be in TekSavvy's service area, it has increased its cap from 200G to 300G (while Bell & Shaw have dropped theirs). It also kept its price the same (while Bell & Shaw increased theirs). And on top of all that, for an additional $10 a month, you can get unlimited (no such option with Bell or Shaw).

Anon1
@shawcable.net

Anon1

Anon

Telus also has Draconian overage fees as well.

As much as Shaws new crap is pissing me off, when looking into switching to Telus, I found that they also have caps, and $2 a Gig over regardless of what package. Their monthly limit is a little higher than Shaws but not by too much (their Extreme equivalent has an extra 10GB of bandwidth then $2/GB after) and they have no packages to buy either, you just pay the $2/GB over.

merin
@shawcable.net

merin

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Re: Telus also has Draconian overage fees as well.

Telus does not enforce their limits, their bandwidth monitors is not even working for most users. Plus those have been on the site for years with not one person being charged. Where as shaw's new site hides the limits they just added in December.
GAMEFUEL
join:2011-01-05

GAMEFUEL

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Re: Telus also has Draconian overage fees as well.

That is a fair point Telus has had those for years.

Haha I just went to look it up in the terms and conditions on Telus say it says limits are only enforced for a severe breach of contract and misuse of service and that Telus reserves the right to not monitor your usage, and has no obligation to do so.

chuck car
@teksavvy.com

chuck car

Anon

Re: Telus also has Draconian overage fees as well.

Telus has no bandwidth counter as putting one in place costs more money than the actual buying of bandwidth something Bell Canada out east never figured out. Telus can't track bandwidth useage therefore can't charge overuse fees.