[clug-talk] RFC - Shaw Internet Cable Pricing and Bandwidth

2011-03-12 Thread Dave Watkins
Hi Folks, One of my customers has been approached by Shaw recently. Shaw would like to put up a cell tower on their property and very close to their building. They have offered a lump sum per year but are not willing to comp the internet access. Currently I have 2 DSL lines onsite. One

Re: [clug-talk] RFC - Shaw Internet Cable Pricing and Bandwidth

2011-03-12 Thread Greg King
Hi Dave, As you say it is guesswork at this stage to say a 10mbps / 50GB/month service is adequate. Assuming all 100 users are using the service roughly equally, then the per user access would be 0.1mbps / 0.5GB/month. Does this seem OK? Ideally you should have some additional info like the

Re: [clug-talk] RFC - Shaw Internet Cable Pricing and Bandwidth

2011-03-12 Thread Mel Walters
Have you considered efirehose ? http://efirehose.net/services.html Where are they in relation to this map? http://efirehose.net/images/coverageNov1.jpg Mel On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 1:00 AM, Dave Watkins li...@calgaryitservices.comwrote: Hi Folks, One of my customers has been approached

Re: [clug-talk] clug-talk Digest, Vol 76, Issue 10

2011-03-12 Thread Ralph Boland
I've had a flurry of response, but no one has actually shown up. My apologies to Frank whose calls I missed. I just want to let everyone know they're still available, but if not gone, will go to the dump in a few days. You can have them recycled though I believe there is a small fee.

Re: [clug-talk] clug-talk Digest, Vol 76, Issue 10

2011-03-12 Thread Greg King
I've recycled lots of electronics at the old military base and never been charged a fee. Recycling fees are usually charged on purchase. Greg On 11-03-12 09:42 AM, Ralph Boland wrote: I've had a flurry of response, but no one has actually shown up. My apologies to Frank whose calls I

Re: [clug-talk] clug-talk Digest, Vol 76, Issue 10

2011-03-12 Thread Jason Fraser
It depends on what and where it is from. If it is a monitor I think they charge and some non computer electronics. Most other computer stuff they take for free but businesses they also charge for the most part. -Original Message- From: Ralph Boland Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2011

Re: [clug-talk] RFC - Shaw Internet Cable Pricing and Bandwidth

2011-03-12 Thread John Jardine
Hi Dave, 50GB doesn't sound like a lot to me. I don't track my own utilization (new project!) but would expect it to be in that neighbourhood. I don't know what your customer does but I routinely use web-meetings, VoIP phone, VPN access to remote sites and upload software releases. Viewed from

Re: [clug-talk] clug-talk Digest, Vol 76, Issue 10

2011-03-12 Thread TekBudda
I usually take my stuff to the depot at the old base or Staples near Chinook. Never been charged a fee at either. I think Best Buy might even take stuff as well. You coud also contact era On 3/12/2011 10:56 AM, Jason Fraser wrote: It depends on what and where it is from. If it is a monitor

Re: [clug-talk] RFC - Shaw Internet Cable Pricing and Bandwidth

2011-03-12 Thread Shawn
That seems *really* expensive for 50GB/month. The throughput sound fine, but the artificial limit on total volume is not really in line with my expectations. I recently hooked up a new business line with a volume limit of 110GB/month - for only $78/month (special time limited deal dropped

Re: [clug-talk] RFC - Shaw Internet Cable Pricing and Bandwidth

2011-03-12 Thread Gustin Johnson
I do track my own usage (and have for a number of years). My/our usage fluctuates wildly. Between 50 and 350 GiB/per month. Of course this is two home users with heavy web usage, as well as Netflix, streaming audio, blah blah. Presumably the things that I do at home to eat bandwidth is

Re: [clug-talk] RFC - Shaw Internet Cable Pricing and Bandwidth

2011-03-12 Thread Gustin Johnson
His quote is for a fiber connection. That price seems to be inline with what we were quoted (our quote included a PRI). You can purchase larger blocks of bandwidth but this connection is synchronous, that is 10 Mbit up and down. Your cable modem may do 15 Mbit down but only 1 Mbit up. This is

Re: [clug-talk] RFC - Shaw Internet Cable Pricing and Bandwidth

2011-03-12 Thread terr
May I ask what they are doing? If they are looking for a connection to a local business then there are perhaps better alternatives. On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 06:20:22PM -0700, Gustin Johnson wrote: His quote is for a fiber connection. That price seems to be inline with what we were quoted

Re: [clug-talk] RFC - Shaw Internet Cable Pricing and Bandwidth

2011-03-12 Thread Dave Watkins
Hi Folks, Thanks for the comments to date. Currently we have no cable access. We're on an island between Crowchild Trail and Brentwood Road, a small bible college. DSL was/is our only option at this time, at least till Shaw came to us with the cell site offer. I suspect that the students are