Originally Posted by lawked

I have both shaw and telus.

Telus is worlds apart for shaw in reliability. About a week out of every month, shaw will be slow to US based servers... Yes, I said *a week*. Your max speed will be ~200KB/sec.

Shaw is definitely faster than telus overall... 450KB/sec max on Telus, 650KB/sec on shaw...

Ping times to the US usually favor Telus, on some routes.. shaw... Overall Telus.

Shaw will harass you if you do any big data transfers... whereas, with telus I can send/receive as much as I can in a month and they never call.

Telus *rarely* goes down, shaw occassionally.

I use shaw to game, and telus for work. You can't do large sends/receives on shaw over a period of time and expect to stay connected with them, they'll shut you off.

If you're doing relatively small transfers and enjoy the speed bursts, go shaw.