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reply to brmcghee
No,

Residental 100 is 5 up for $85
Business 50 is 5 up for $99, $80 on promo

I don't know if 250 is available in Langly yet, but it has 15mbps upload.
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reply to brmcghee

Living in the same city does not mean he is eligle for the 50Mb Telus plan. He may live too far from a remote dslam or the CO to get the service. Loop distances can be as much as one person gets the service, the guy 50FT away cannot. Also, the Actiontec is a steaming turd of a device, and Telus won't let you legally bridge it.

Give telus a call. They offer a great 50/10 service.

They definitely do! The trick is to get the Actiontec to not burn out. If you can get a good one, it's a good service. I can't get over the single point of failure for the entire TV and Internet service.

reply to brmcghee
Upgrade to BB100 it's $10 more ($85) than Optik 50 standalone and has twice the download - 100 down and 10 up. Difference if you have TV too is telus equipment fee rentals if you don't want a contract.

The BB100 plan doesn't have 10 up everywhere, many places it is still 5 up. Residental BB50 being 3.
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reply to spock
They didn't offer me any great 50/10 service.

Fastest they offered me was 25/2.5 minus overhead.
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No its not minus overhead. The profile sync is higher so you will receive 25/2.5

reply to spock
@spock

First you said they offer a great 50/10 service. Now you can promise I will get 25/2.5?

Thats half the upload I get now, which is my concern. Paying Shaw an extra $10/month for two modems at 100/5 has much better speeds.
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reply to rustydusty

said by rustydusty:

said by spock:

No its not minus overhead. The profile sync is higher so you will receive 25/2.5

Not even close. The profiles sync higher, and QoS allows some wiggle room. With my PVR recording 3HD streams, my internet speeds dropped to 17Mb/s X 1.7Mb/s. They do sync the line higher, but the more STB's will bring the speeds down. QoS can only do so much

ALU or bridge mode. Bingo.

reply to brmcghee
Finding an ALU is near impossible. You can bridge the Actiontec but it isn't supported and I'm not sure if they would warranty the device if they found custom firmware on it. Regardless, Telus should provide a standalone device if requested, or have custom firmware for the Actiontec to bridge it. Also, bridging the Actiontec doesn't get around the fact IMO, the hardware is crap. Loading software on it will alleviate the double NAT issue, but it won't fix the hardware on the inside of the case.

reply to spock
Like you say rusty the difference between shaw and telus can be different in each area. On vancouver island I experienced huge swings in ping and speed depending on the time of day with shaw. Shaw made gaming and voip quality suffer during prime time. I was also getting tired of the constant price increases last year. I went to telus for tv and internet and was happy. I ended up moving to teksavvy because I like how they run their business. I now get my tv via ota and netflix

When I had optik my modem would sync to 34m down 3.2up

I had no issues getting 25meg down when recording 2HD streams. When using 3hd stream I would get 20m down.

Currently I'm using teksavvy and receive these speeds 24/7

ping was a little high from qos rules, my wife was on the phone

reply to rustydusty
I must have lucked out with my actiontech.

reply to kevinds