[Manic!]

sht thats fast. want to see some real world tests.

http://forums.redflagdeals.com/free-shaw-1gbit-upgrade-promo-select-areas-vancouver-calgary-edmonton-923543/




Free Shaw 1Gbit upgrade promo in select areas of Vancouver, Calgary and Edmonton
Some may not consider this a hot deal, and those of you already with Shaw should get this without asking anyway but Telus customers may want to think about trying Shaw if this promo is in their area.

From Shaw's website:

Have you heard? Shaw is bringing unheard of speeds to the Canadian market through exciting trials of our 1 Gigabit Internet service. This service launched in select Vancouver neighbourhoods in June – and Pinebrook, a suburb west of Calgary, will be the latest area to try out the 1 Gigabit Internet service FREE for six months starting in September!

Our test neighbourhoods have the advantage of “future proofing” as they receive the best technology has to offer with Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) and will be able to support new, cutting-edge Internet applications that will require faster download speeds – compliments of Shaw.

At the end of the six month trial, customers will still be able to retain their existing services without any change in features or function.

This is a great opportunity for our customers and we are thrilled to be the first provider in Canada to offer this incredible service.

Some interesting facts about Shaw’s 1 Gigabit Internet service:

10x faster than Nitro
Trial in Vancouver is now live – Calgary and Edmonton to follow in September
The service is FREE for the duration of the trials
Stay tuned for more exciting announcements about when our 1 Gigabit trial might be available in an area near you!
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[Jayboogz]

Any idea on which area specifically in van???
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[Ulic Qel-Droma]

awwwww shitttttttttt hell yeah.

probably not avaliable in rmd :(

fuck... more info!?

[murd0c]

yep I want to know as well, Hopefully its in Surrey as well

[Tegra_Devil]

hopefully up the upper levels section in north van gets it

[FerrariEnzo]

how much is this after the trials?

sounds insanely hype... haha... the warp is pretty pricey, $96/month... damn.. this is gona be over $100/month

[Ch28]

Watch the "select Vancouver neighbourhoods" be condos in the downtown core.

[Soundy]

Sounds great, BUT.... you'd need a new modem, since the standard ones just have 10/100 LAN ports... and you'd need a router with a gigabit WAN port (good luck there), or just plug your machine with gigabit port straight into the router (largely negates the point of having all that speed, if you can't share it with all your machines)...

[Jmac]

I would imagine they'd provide you with a modem to use for the trial ... They give you the modem when you get their 100 Mbps service (no rental or purchase necessary).

As for the areas, my guess would be newer communities since it would be a lot cheaper to lay fiber in an empty property than it would be to dig up existing infrastructure.

[Ulic Qel-Droma]

http://www.shaw.ca/en-ca/ProductsServices/Internet/The+Fasternet/

[RabidRat]

Lol I could actually see myself switching from Telus for this. I'm having trouble wrapping my head around just how fast 1Gbit internet is LOL.

[twitchyzero]

damn..if they only upgrade my east-van neighbourhood to fiber-o
probably won't happen for another 10 years LOL

[SlySi]

so nutz....1gbit...

[FiveDime]

i asked about where the locations are


Downtown and Parts of Coquitlam

[Meowjin]

what are you guys paying for internet? My brother pays 10 and I pay 40. Thinking about calling and saying im going to telus.

[skyxx]

Pointless if your hard drive can't write that fast. :rofl:

[Panda604]

good deal

[Gh0stRider]

wtf coquitlam?

[Vale46Rossi]

finally they offer this! Now need to wait till they have it in more areas in the lower mainland

[twitchyzero]

Pointless if your hard drive can't write that fast. :rofl:

even 15 year old + PATA drives have 1Gbit/s AFAIK

[!MiKrofT]

even 15 year old + PATA drives have 1Gbit/s AFAIK
No they can't. You're looking at writing 125MB/s. PATA BURST speed is 133MB/s not sustained. You'll need SSD to write that fast.

[terkan]

what are you guys paying for internet? My brother pays 10 and I pay 40. Thinking about calling and saying im going to telus.

chances are they'll tell you to switch to telus then.. shaw doesn't offer too much in terms of retention.. offering retention just means they have to charge more on the non retention ppl just to cover the lost in revenue which is bad for business in a way.. they don't have the money to throw around like telus

[Greenstoner]

maybe the upgrades explain why i get disconnect every hours for 2 mins in the past 4 days...

i called Shaw and they said they are doing upgrades for coq area...

[JdmProbe]

No they can't. You're looking at writing 125MB/s. PATA BURST speed is 133MB/s not sustained. You'll need SSD to write that fast.

Well.. you just need to remember that the dl speed is 1 gigaBIT and the write speed of the drives your talking about is in megaBYTES.

So if 1 gigabit is equal to around 128 megabytes, unless your computer is from the stone age, most people should be ok.

[Jeremy617]

No they can't. You're looking at writing 125MB/s. PATA BURST speed is 133MB/s not sustained. You'll need SSD to write that fast.

125MB/s sequential write isn't that uncommon for single large capacity drives to achieve these days, most are close, if not over 125MB/s.

http://www.storagereview.com/western_digital_caviar_black_review_2tb

Or just raid 0 some slower drives. It wouldn't really matter anyways, i kinda doubt you'd be able to pull more than 5MB/s from any individual download.

[!MiKrofT]

You guys failed to read that he said 15 year old PATA.. as in IDE drives.

I stand corrected on the SSD only though. I shoulda known. I actually have 2 of those WD 2tb Blacks. lol.

[!MiKrofT]

Well.. you just need to remember that the dl speed is 1 gigaBIT and the write speed of the drives your talking about is in megaBYTES.

So if 1 gigabit is equal to around 128 megabytes, unless your computer is from the stone age, most people should be ok.

I already did the conversion. Why do you think I never mentioned 1gigabit in my reply and only used MB/s

[willystyle]

Ok, so who actually has this trial connection?

[Ulic Qel-Droma]

stop arguing about read and write speeds, who cares if you can't actually download at 1gbit per second.it's free, and it's gonna be way fucking faster than whatever you have. that's all ya gotta know.

[terkan]

why do u guys even care what speed it is? 99% of you won't even noticed the difference.. sure it's advertised at 1gb.. but how many servers out there supports 1gb/s data transfer? you won't even noticed the actual difference when you have high speed xtreme vs high speed warp.. just coz 99% of the site you are going to places you are downloading from you won't reach those speed..

[!MiKrofT]

Yes we all know that nobody is gonna really see the difference and that most sites won't even take advantage. Just discussing. No arguing. Besides. A lot of us are outside the supported areas anyways.

[Ikkaku]

hmm... even tho I don't live in the DT area, I wonder if this was part of the reason why my tv and internet was down the entire damn day