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12-07-2011, 12:17 PM
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#1 | | Rs has made me the man i am today!
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| Shaw Wifi Access Points (Trial)
So since Shaw decided to opt out of the wireless provider scene, they have started building wifi access points around Canada instead. They turned on about 9 access points recently in the Lower Mainland and plan to push out thousands more over the next three years in malls and restaurants to compete with Robelus' data plans.
Right now the trial is limited to Shaw internet customers with a @shaw.ca email account. You can see the locations in the map in the link below along with instructions to connect to the Shaw access point. The Shaw WiFi Trial - Shaw.ca
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12-07-2011, 12:29 PM
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Those are in the oddest locations.. good to know I guess.
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12-07-2011, 01:08 PM
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12-07-2011, 01:12 PM
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yup friends at shaw told me about it. Citywide wifi would be awesome. Posted via RS Mobile | |
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12-07-2011, 01:36 PM
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#5 | | Rs has made me the man i am today!
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Say there was city wide wifi and you were connected to a Shaw access point at one place and walking towards another location that also has a Shaw access point. Would your device be able to automatically switch to the new access point with the stronger signal? Is that possible?
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12-07-2011, 02:11 PM
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is this going to be pay per use or you pay monthly for unlimited once shaw has this up and ready?
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12-07-2011, 02:29 PM
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#7 | | Rs has made me the man i am today!
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It's free for now. They didn't say anything about that right now. I have a feeling that they're going to link this with their internet services as a perk since they're requiring a shaw email address for their trial. So possibly free with shaw internet? Maybe extra on top?
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12-07-2011, 02:40 PM
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no wifi in richmond, fuuuu
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12-07-2011, 02:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Simplex123 Say there was city wide wifi and you were connected to a Shaw access point at one place and walking towards another location that also has a Shaw access point. Would your device be able to automatically switch to the new access point with the stronger signal? Is that possible? | Nope I don't think so. If you are downloading a file and you go out of range of the access point you were using the download stops.
I wonder what the range is of these access points and what's happening with Wimax.
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12-07-2011, 03:20 PM
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it would probably remain connected until the connection drops then it would latch onto the the next signal. There'd be a disconnect.
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04-17-2012, 05:26 PM
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#11 | | Rs has made me the man i am today!
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Originally Posted by TOPEC no wifi in richmond, fuuuu | There's about 11 in Richmond now and quite a few around the Lower Mainland especially in Downtown. They're mostly in Waves and A&W's. I thought there would be more outdoor ones but there's only a few.
Edit: The access point is called ShawOpen and you need to sign in when you are connected to it.
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04-17-2012, 05:37 PM
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the bandwidth used will count towards your monthly internet service bandwidth. i don't understand why they didn't blanket the city and charge extra for it. without a seamless feed of data between my house and outside, there's still no way i'd lower or give up my cellphone data plan
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04-17-2012, 07:06 PM
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#13 | | Rs has made me the man i am today!
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Originally Posted by ddr the bandwidth used will count towards your monthly internet service bandwidth. i don't understand why they didn't blanket the city and charge extra for it. without a seamless feed of data between my house and outside, there's still no way i'd lower or give up my cellphone data plan | It will count towards your monthly bandwidth later on. Not during the trial right now. Quote: |
Any data used while connected to the Shaw Exo WiFi Trial will contribute to the data included with the Internet package you subscribe to at home (i.e. Broadband 50). However, during the trial period, data usage will not count towards the data associated with your home Internet package.
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04-17-2012, 08:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Simplex123 Say there was city wide wifi and you were connected to a Shaw access point at one place and walking towards another location that also has a Shaw access point. Would your device be able to automatically switch to the new access point with the stronger signal? Is that possible? | If you're talking about moving between two different access points without ever dropping the signal, then yes, the transfer should be seamless.
If you go completely out of coverage between APs, then of course there would be a drop..
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04-25-2012, 12:57 AM
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#15 | | HELP ME PLS!!!
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How far can this WiFi signal travel?
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04-25-2012, 02:02 AM
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not that far.. they have an access point from A&W in food court lougheed mall i barely get signal 200 ft from it
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07-10-2012, 10:32 PM
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Just got this in my store. (below the belt) robson. been pretty good finally a use for my shaw email lol. Im using it to stream live music to play in the store but thats about it.
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07-11-2012, 01:44 AM
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time to torrent! 
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07-11-2012, 07:52 AM
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