http://www.dslreports.com/forum/How-Is-Shaw-Phone-Now-What-is-Involved-with-Installation-23260406 en Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:12:00 EDT Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:12:00 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-How-Is-Shaw-Phone-Now-What-is-Involved-with-Installation-23293742
Caller ID doesn't work well. Often numbers are displayed with no name, just "out of area" listed. This is especially noticable with cell phones and even with other Shaw Home Phone lines. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-How-Is-Shaw-Phone-Now-What-is-Involved-with-Installation-23293742 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:20:16 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-How-Is-Shaw-Phone-Now-What-is-Involved-with-Installation-23288057 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-How-Is-Shaw-Phone-Now-What-is-Involved-with-Installation-23288057 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:05:50 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-How-Is-Shaw-Phone-Now-What-is-Involved-with-Installation-23288045 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-How-Is-Shaw-Phone-Now-What-is-Involved-with-Installation-23288045 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:14 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-How-Is-Shaw-Phone-Now-What-is-Involved-with-Installation-23276643 FIVE!!!! technicians on three different days - two to drop off the modem and attach it to the wall, two to connect the modem to the coax, and one to connect the modem to the phone line. After installation, things have gone relatively smoothly.

As far as audio quality goes, I hooked up some test equipment from the office and discovered that it is significantly better when you talk to someone with a landline. When you talk to someone with a cell phone it's not quite as good because for some reason the audio gain is higher with Shaw (read: it's slightly louder) which distorts cell audio and can cause echo. It is not significantly worse though and well worth the better price.

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As for the ANON poster from UVic, I'm hoping that the house phone isn't a cordless phone...because, well without power those won't work either!
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Shaw claims that their service will run for up to four hours during a power failure, and the device they install in the home has a battery for this, but their upstream equipment doesn't always have backup power. I've called to discuss the problem several times (the power here fails a few times each year), and it always ends with a tech guy telling me how the repeaters in their cable lines will lose power, etc.

So, as long as your power is reliable, everything should be fine. :)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-How-Is-Shaw-Phone-Now-What-is-Involved-with-Installation-23266442 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:44:16 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-How-Is-Shaw-Phone-Now-What-is-Involved-with-Installation-23263834 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-How-Is-Shaw-Phone-Now-What-is-Involved-with-Installation-23263834 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:54:41 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-How-Is-Shaw-Phone-Now-What-is-Involved-with-Installation-23262454 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-How-Is-Shaw-Phone-Now-What-is-Involved-with-Installation-23262454 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:22:37 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-How-Is-Shaw-Phone-Now-What-is-Involved-with-Installation-23261853
they install a phone terminal and cut over the old POTS line from the house wiring.

they can port your number over takes 14 days, make sure your not under contract and don't cancel your current provider they will cancel it on the day they switch you over.

all your current phones and jacks will work the same. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-How-Is-Shaw-Phone-Now-What-is-Involved-with-Installation-23261853 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:38:01 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/How-Is-Shaw-Phone-Now-What-is-Involved-with-Installation-23260406
Thanks]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/How-Is-Shaw-Phone-Now-What-is-Involved-with-Installation-23260406 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:42:22 EDT