[Speed tests] How fast is YOUR Broadband?

DurkaDurka

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i'm on shaw but got crap compared to u guys.

Your on a Lite package I take it?
 

hermanntrude

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yep. forgot that for a minute. This is still the fastest internet i ever had without a nazi firewall around me. When i was at uni I used their network and sometimes got downloads of 800kbps but couldnt use P2P stuff
 

DurkaDurka

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university ones suck even more cos the staff are underpaid and dont know what they're doing so they block **** they dont need to

yeah, I recall that when I was in college. They shut down all the ports except for the ones they consider to be essential... 80, 25, 110.
 

hermanntrude

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i'm assuming there's some kind of upload limit on my connection. hope i dont reach it. i'd hate to be without a connection. it's a little unfair to give a limit but not let us see how much we've used
 

DurkaDurka

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i'm assuming there's some kind of upload limit on my connection. hope i dont reach it. i'd hate to be without a connection. it's a little unfair to give a limit but not let us see how much we've used

You probably have a download cap in the range of 10gb. I would call them and find out, if you exceed it you will be paying about $1.50/gb over.
 

hermanntrude

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pics are easy. just click on the button that looks like a pic and put in your URL. neat thing about that speed test site is it hosts the image for u
 

hermanntrude

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you guys have me worried now. I can't find anything on shaw.ca about how much ive used but i know ive been heavily using the connection. I assumed something would let me know when i was enar the limit. had no idea i could be building up charges
 

DurkaDurka

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you guys have me worried now. I can't find anything on shaw.ca about how much ive used but i know ive been heavily using the connection. I assumed something would let me know when i was enar the limit. had no idea i could be building up charges

The only way you will go over their limit is if you download lots of Mp3's, Movies etc. If you browse primarily, I wouldn't worry about it.

go to www.dslreports.com and check out the Canadian broadband forum. Should be able to find the info you need.
 

hermanntrude

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i just checked out the shaw website. it does say that they can charge u if u go past the limit but it doesnt say how much and there seems to be no way of knowing how much you've used. How can they charge me for something I have no way of regulating???

Imagine at a gas station they told u if u take more than 20L of gas we'll charge you extra but then gave u no indicator on the pump.
 

hermanntrude

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AH. found it. there IS a usage tool but you have to find the instructions (which are in an obscure corner of the site) and phone them up and register and all sorts.

what a bunch of tossers. I suspect i've been screwed this month. azureus is shut down now.