"Telus, the future is full of bullshit"

Now ladies and gentlemen I have for the most part always liked telus. Sure the line speed kind of sucked (1.5Mbit) but tech support has always been very good but the main reason was that despite the pathetic 10GB bandwidth limit they didnt enforce it so it was the same as having unlimited. However Telus is singing a different tune now as I recently recieved a letter saying that I was using excessive amounts of bandwidth, sure 137GB in a month is a tad high. For the record I dont usually do that much but this month was an exception due to me getting invites to several new private bit torrent sites. But I digress. So now it turns out if this "excessive usage" continues our account will be TERMINATED. One thing that makes our case extra special is that we probably pay between 300-400 dollars monthly to Telus due to phone/cell/internet so I would think some leeway could be given. We called them, they said otherwise. So my problem is this here is a break down of Telus' "highspeed" internet packages.





Now the office and server plans do come with some extra do-dads (static ip, multiple e-mail accounts, added webspace, multiple ips etc etc) however let me dig up shaws highspeed plans.







As you can see there is a very appaling difference in packages Shaws basic package is essentially three times as fast as telus' and has twice the bandwidth limit, albeit the 20GB limit is still pretty sad its a moderate improvement. The xtreme package is more of an improvement atleast I could live with 50GB but look at the speed on the shaw package compared to the telus enhanced package. For a buck more shaw packs in an extra 4Mbits and 35GB more bandwidth to use. Im not going to commentate the business packages, you're all smart enough to compare them. Im going to assume speed wise the business ones are as fast or faster than the xtreme package. As you can see Telus needs to really pull it together and a)upgrade their lines b)have more realistic bandwidth limits.

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