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Gigabit FTTH coming to Canada
fohfoh:
--- Quote from: tomoya-kun on October 22, 2010, 04:32:01 AM ---Bell is the worst, I'm getting 5mpbs down and 0.3mbps up for 50$CAD month
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I think we're paying 44 CAD for 7.5/.75. Technically our package is for 5/.5 but being a long time member, we got a free upgrade. (Shaw btw)
Oh yeah, how could I forget about Bell?
Freedom Kira:
--- Quote from: bloody000 on October 22, 2010, 05:42:19 AM ---http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r24787647-ALL-1-Gigabit-Internet-service-in-September-for-select-areas
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I don't think that's really such old news... I never noticed it before though, to be fair.
And yes, Shaw's had fiber in for a long time. That said, gigabit speeds is new. Their backbone is 33Gbps, according to a friend who got lucky enough to get onto the backbone once. Filled up a whole terabyte in a matter of a couple hours.
And like the "rusty" guy said, the problem with speeds these days is the lack of upload speed. Being a BBT member, I don't care as much about the down speed as the up speed.
Odd, though, that I haven't heard about Shaw doing this, being a Shaw customer in Edmonton. September was almost a full month ago.
--- Quote from: fohfoh on October 22, 2010, 05:57:53 AM ---I think we're paying 44 CAD for 7.5/.75. Technically our package is for 5/.5 but being a long time member, we got a free upgrade. (Shaw btw)
Oh yeah, how could I forget about Bell?
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We're getting 7.5/0.5 for $37 a month (normally $47 but it's bundled with phone). And yes that's Shaw. BTW I don't think Shaw offers a plan with 0.75 up.
And Bell sucks. Except for their satellite TV. =D
theprophet9:
I just laugh at this, the Australian Government over here is already rolling out the 1Gbps National Broadband Network to 93% of Australians, the rollout in the state of Tasmania is half-completed and has started construction in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia with thousands of customers already connected. Australia beat Canada to a FTTH network :P
vuzedome:
Great, now even Australia has it, and here we only got 25mbps max on Zone 1 coverage.
bloody000:
I'm paying 45CAD for 15/1 from Telus. Up time is excellent too, I can only recall one afternoon of DNS downtime.
And Telus doesn't monitor my bandwidth usage due to Telus TV also using ADSL2+.
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