 IgnitePremium,VIP
join:2004-03-18
UK | Shame it's at 5Mbps, here's hoping you don't need anything in too much of a hurry, especially if with the whole 4 people thing it could go as slow as 1.25Mbps.
Interesting though hardly 'ironic' comparing pricing between 4 people to Shaw's service for one person on its' own by the way. Split the shaw pricing 4 ways and it's hardly 10 times the price, it does however come at 20 times the burst speed being 25Mbps for each of 4 people.
If we're going to gloat prices in the UK for most things are higher, the cost of living is considerably higher and this is reflected in higher salaries, yet I get 53Mbps or nearly 16TB a month for less than you pay for 1.6TB a month, and I can get your 1.6TB over 10 times faster than you can. Oddly enough though I don't feel the need to use 15TB or even 1.6TB or even 160GB a month, in common with most people.
If Teksavvy's average customer decided they absolutely had to start using all the bandwidth at those kinds of rates you'd soon see a slow down, they actually only budget around 100kbps per customer peak bandwidth, equivalent to 30GB or so a month 
Each to their own, and while your service is uncapped (for now) it's also really slow. I don't want to think about having to put up with a service that slow having had faster services for quite a few years now, I've been on ADSL2+ or better since 2005, no usage caps on any services I should mention of course, and none of them costing the price you pay.
For people who love burst speed, have the money and don't download the entire internet every month it's probably a reasonable-ish deal given the stupidly overpriced services in Canada. There is far more to a package than bit caps, and regardless of the bit cap if a customer isn't reaching it the cap may as well not exist.
You've probably set yourself up to get nicely flamed having posted this gloating tripe a few weeks away from UBB, but be nice to those people who pay more and don't hammer the hell out of it, they keep the price of your 1.6TB down
Me defending Shaw, first time for everything 
EDIT: By the way I just checked, and I have never done 400GB in a single month, ever, despite having been on services capable of it since 2003, never having a bit cap on any services, being a member of 3 private trackers and having an unmetered NNTP account.
To each their own. |
