[clug-talk] Shaw Ubuntu Mirror

[gustin at echostar.ca]

On Wed, 5 May 2010, simon at mungewell.org wrote:

> Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 01:35:58 -0400 (EDT)
> From: simon at mungewell.org
> Reply-To: CLUG General <clug-talk at clug.ca>
> To: CLUG General <clug-talk at clug.ca>
> Subject: Re: [clug-talk] Shaw Ubuntu Mirror
> 
>>
>> What service level are you at that you get 1.52  MB/s?? What I get on the
>> DSL

Shaw High Speed Extreme is the service level.  It is one step up from the 
regular high speed.

>> is 160k/sec, using Telus's standard DSL package. My S-I-L, who  was on
>> Shaw

That is pretty close to what you would expect from Shaw's lite speed 
package.

>> but switched to Telus DSL over support issues, hasn't noticed much
>> difference
>> in speed between the two.

In day to day use, most people would not notice the difference.  The vast 
majority of web sites have per connection throttles that are far below the 
15 mbit this connection is capable of.

If you are able to take advantage of the additional bandwidth, it is 
impossible to go back.

>
> I think the speed comes from the fact that it's inside Shaw's network and
> therefore skipping (some of??) the rate limiting and is the raw speed that
> the cable can handle at that point in time.

Actually, I also get these speeds from the giganews usenet server.  To be 
fair giganews peers directly with Shaw, but they are still outside of the 
Shaw network.  Also, this was subjected to the traffic shaping that I do 
on my own router.  With those rules disabled the connection we have bursts 
up to 25 mbit (shaw has some marketing term for this but it is simply part of their 
shaping rules).

I have at one time or another used nearly every broadband provider in the 
Calgary region (including a couple of fixed wireless providers) and will 
be sticking with Shaw until I get fiber to the home (which will probably 
be Shaw anyway).