Nucleus tells me they are going the opposite way. Just dump shaw / telus and call up Nucleus and be done with them. The service is better as well.
Once the wires are in it does not caost significantly more to use them. Its not like water which needs to be treated before and after its used. A peave of mine is that people pay for internet to get internet services which servers provide. Yet the servers people want services from arn't owned by Shaw and Telus. Shaw and Telus won't pay the people who run the servers. Funny eh? Well - to be honest shaw and Telus pay for access to American servers. They just figure they should not have to pay for access to Canadian servers. On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 11:41:05PM -0700, Gustin Johnson wrote: > I am split about this. On one hand I have for a while been thinking > that the Internet should be metered, like water or electricity. It > should also be as smart (ie. nothing but a dumb pipe). If I want to > take a 2 hour shower, then I can do so as long as I am willing to pay > for it. > > The big problem is that the price needs to be reasonable, which $2/gig > is not. I have zero faith in the market to set reasonable price. > > I am not sure when Shaw will be charging, but they have posted their > current "guidelines" in the acceptable use policy (aka the AUP). You > can find this at: > http://www.shaw.ca/en-ca/AboutShaw/TermsofUse/AcceptableUsePolicyInternet.htm > > Of interest: > You must ensure that your activity while using the Services does not > improperly restrict, inhibit or degrade any other customer's use of > the Services, nor represent (in the sole judgment of Shaw) an > unusually large burden on the network itself, such as, but not limited > to, peer to peer file sharing programs, serving streaming video or > audio, mail, http, ftp, irc, dhcp servers, and multi-user interactive > forums. The guidelines for Bandwidth Usage/month for each service > package are the following: Shaw High-Speed Lite - 15 GigaByte; Shaw > High-Speed - 60 GigaByte; Shaw High-Speed Extreme - 100 GigaByte; Shaw > High-Speed Warp - 175 GigaByte; Shaw High-Speed Nitro - 350 GigaByte; > Point of Sale Connect - 10 GigaByte; Hih-Speed - 70 GigaByte; > High-Speed (with Extreme) - 110 GigaByte; SOHO - 90 GigaByte; SOHO > (with Extreme) - 130; Business - 175 GigaByte; Business (with Extreme) > - 225 GigaByte (all bandwidth is based on combined download and > upload). > > While the limits are not terrible, they are not great either. I would > be happier with this scheme if I could bank the bandwidth I don't use, > but that is less likely than the moon disappearing. > > If Shaw was not competing with Netflix or YouTube I would be less > worried, but this seems like their response to the success of the > Internet based services that we have asked for repeatedly for years. > Instead of competing they are putting up pay walls. > > Ultimately what I would like to see is that ISPs are barred from the > content business. They should be in the business of selling Internet > access and nothing else. > > Now that I have pulled the pin on the grenade, let the flame war begin > > > On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Dafydd Crosby <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've been in and out of the loop on the matter of metered Internet billing. > > Does anyone know when Shaw's planning on starting this on residential lines? > > > > More info: > > http://arstechnica.com/telecom/news/2011/01/canada-wages-youtube-war-against-metered-internet-billing.ars > > > > -Dafydd > > > > _______________________________________________ > > clug-talk mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > > **Please remove these lines when replying > > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
