Yes, yes, who needs speeds this fast, but it was cheaper than my 1Gbps plan before this.
Anyway, we switched for 3 weeks and it’s been down twice for us now (both on weekends). It’s like I’m beta testing their new backbone or something – any other early adopters want to share their experience?
2023-07-19 Edit: since posting this it went down 3 more times. The TELUS on-hold music is starting to give me PTSD. There was something wrong with their backend where my network access hub kept getting un-registered (and my account getting unregistered), multiple times, but it’s been okay for 24 hours now (knock on wood).
A tech came by monday morning to look at it, and all they did was call their backend team, but he gave me specific instructions to give the frontline support, which was useful, but still frustrating.
I’m at I think about a 50% rate on “if we get disconnected, we’ll call you back”.
Wow! I didn’t realize 3Gbps was even an option for Internet these days. Is that symmetric 3Gbps up/down?
It’s supposed to be, but while I have 10G switches, the fastest NIC I have is 2.5G so I can only confirm it goes 2.5G both ways. Wifi goes barely above 1.2Gbps (until I get a 6ghz device I guess)
It was cheaper than our previous 1Gbps plan, but required a tech to come in and upgrade the hardware – we got a Network Access Hub, which is awful, you can’t turn off their DHCP server, and you can’t have a larger than /24 IPv4 subnet. On the other hand, it was free, a 3rd party 10G gateway/router is expensive and power hungry.
Maybe you can connect your own router in front of the access hub to get your own static IPs and subnets? It doesn’t need to be 10G, I would think many cheapish routers could handle 3Gbps (maybe?).
Like I said, over 2.5G it gets real expensive real fast (and it’s really power hungry to use general purpose computers as a router for this, even though I’m a seasoned Linux admin)
Fair enough. The devices that ISPs provide do seem to be pretty crappy in general.
If you don’t mind my asking, how much are you paying for the 3Gbps plan?
List price is $145 a month, but my building (and a lot of buildings apparently) get a 40% discount so it comes out to be about $90 a month.
That’s not bad at all
All ISPs seem to be going the same way. Shaw has been releasing worse router capbility as they offer “upgrades”. i have older router, allows a lot of control and IP passthrough for my work phone. last year the offered a new speed and router to me. the router XB6 arrived and only had 2 ethernet ports, the other 2 are dedicated phone lines. Like people barely have landline these days. LOL. They offered XB7 later with it back to 4 ethernet ports but now you don’t get IP passthrough, and need a phone app for full capabilities. Like I get some people need a router on easy mode, but if I want let me configure it how I want—since they won’t allow 3rd party router.
I have XB7 and was able to self serve putting into bridge mode. What limitations are you running into?
Bridge mode means I will need to purchase another router, since they supply a router baked into the service price it is just irksome that it is crap.
I mean you either use it or you don’t right? If it doesn’t serve your needs, then it’s generally a prudent idea to get something better. Especially since WiFi is so important now days, it is generally a better idea to have your own infrastructure (router, switch and APs separately) that you trust as opposed to el cheapo ISP combo boxes.
Eventually once I can budget for it in regards to cash, and actually space to place my own. We live in a small place and home office is packed tight. But original point was Shaw equipment getting worse and worse featurewise.