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Gigabit Internet

How do you mean dear sir?

As in in a datacenter?
Or commissioning a dedicated line to your premises?

If you are referring to Shaw's 1Gbps trials so widely advertised... well since we have yet to meet a single person on here touting to have had 1Gbps from Shaw - a) They all signed NDA's b) They don't exist.

For regular residential service, please check back later (10-15 years later)...

reply to JaY_III
Seeing that you live in Port Moody, you'd be lucky to see BB50. I am only speculating that you have lower speeds due to population density, but I have been known to be wrong before.
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Port Moody is Metro Vancouver.
I am not sure if you know how Vancouver is laid out, but the land mass is tiny compared to Edmonton, about 1/6 the size.

For Example if you were to drive from West Edmonton Mall to St.Albert , you would have driven through 2 or 3 city's in Metro Vancouver for the same KM traveled.

I have BB50 and can get 250 if i want.

Now i would have figured someone on this forum had the 1GB connection.
I am actually a little shocked to find that is not the case.

reply to JaY_III
From what I remember, only available in 3 locations and the locations themselves were tiny. They were brand new areas, or "green" areas that were run with fiber before the homes were built. Getting on this was not simple, and the chances of someone being on it is slim.

»www.shaw.ca/uploadedFiles/Corpor···eb17.pdf

I dont see Shaw going full on residential gigafibre till around 2020 to be honest lol. Google on the other hand...

reply to JaY_III

Futureway put themselves out of business that way. It was really just a dummy company that Fred Degasperis owned because Bell rubbed him the wrong way. He never really got even with Bell until he sold the company to Rogers. His kid ran the company. You should've seen the individual costs for FFTH. About 5,000 dollars a pop. This was around 17 years ago.

Only 3-4 years back Version FIOS was reportedly $3000-$4000 per home.

Fred has very deep pockets costs didn't matter to him.

BTW 3k-4k sounds reasonable for fiber to premises.

It would be very steep for single family dwellings, and not exactly necessary, but consider a 20 story apartment building with 5 apartments per floor:

$5000 to bring fiber to the site
$250 x 100 units
Total cost $30,000 to outfit such building,
Considering such costs can be amortized against the strata fees for 5-10 years, even at 5 years 30,000/60/100= $5 per strata lot.

Shaw should start approaching stratas with that, and seeing if there are any interest. I'd be a very strong proponent of such approach in my building.

For commerical fiber - dedicated bandwidth

$2k install
$2k - 2 gigabit 48 port gigabit switches
$10k 100 each unit to run ethernet

The problem is the monthly service cost, when I was looking before, 100mbps fiber with unlimited traffic was $10k-$15k per month, I didn't get a price on 1000mbps
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reply to JaY_III
$4k? If I could sign up for that I would! Totally worth it.

2k current prices, with contract, it is the monthly service price that is painful, depending on connection speed and usage

reply to JaY_III
It might be $3K to an existing home, but it appears some new houses are getting fiber onsite.

We've got Telus for phone and Telus has an optical terminal installed because we've got an optical fiber from Telus (no more copper lines). Plays havoc with the alarm system as well.

Still have Shaw for Internet - I doubt Telus is offering any more than their 25Mbps Optik service even if you have FTTH. The only advantage is now you can have 3 HD streams without losing Internet bandwidth apparently.

...I second that LOL

Apparently Telus has been deploying FTTH, which is virtually future-proof, for new subdivisions for a while. Yet Shaw is still doing trials.

I thought Shaw blew Telus out of the water on the innovation scale?

I thought Telus offers 25Mbps tops anywhere in the country...