[RndTbl] My Shaw Broadband 50 turned into Dial-up; morph into VoIP discussion

[Hartmut W Sager]

 Oh, I forgot to say:  I also looked at www.les.net - interesting, and in
considerable overlap with www.voip.ms that I've also been looking at for
the last month.

Hartmut Sager


On 3 January 2013 21:42, Adam Thompson <athompso at athompso.net> wrote:

>  There are several people here who use VoIP extensively.  Most small VoIP
> users in Winnipeg – as far as I know – use Les’ service (www.les.net).
> Larger business customers (~20+ trunks) have a bit more flexibility, with
> Shaw, MTS and Bell all offering services, too.****
>
> If you’re interested in VoIP, you should come to the Asterisk SIG meetings
> (and join the mailing list at
> http://www.muug.mb.ca/mailman/listinfo/asterisk) despite the fact that
> they often turn into networking (IP, not human) confabs.****
>
> In middle-aged-St. Vital (well, it’s not *quite* Old St. Vital, so what
> else should I call it?) just north of Bishop Grandin Blvd. & St. Mary’s
> Rd., I notice that my Shaw performance is highly variable; Shaw has
> confirmed that my local “node” is somewhat overloaded, and it’s on the
> upgrade list, but no ETA.****
>
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> -Adam Thompson****
>
> athompso at athompso.net****
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> *From:* roundtable-bounces at muug.mb.ca [mailto:
> roundtable-bounces at muug.mb.ca] *On Behalf Of *Hartmut W Sager
> *Sent:* Wednesday, January 02, 2013 9:59 PM
> *To:* Continuation of Round Table discussion
> *Subject:* Re: [RndTbl] My Shaw Broadband 50 turned into Dial-up; morph
> into VoIP discussion****
>
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> Interesting!  I am primarily a Shaw Internet user, with MTS Internet as
> backup, and I don't experience any large variations at Shaw around the
> clock (and I'm on at all hours of day and night, unpredictably).****
>
>  ****
>
> My Shaw plan is 25 Mbps down / 2.5 Mbps up, and I usually clock about 24
> Mbps down / 2.4 Mbps up.  Moments ago I tested it, and got 17 Mbps down /
> 2.4 Mbps up.  So, aside from any problem you may have had in your local
> computer and networking, Shaw does have high capacity for handling peak
> loads in at least some (many/most?) areas of Winnipeg - I'm around Watt &
> Munroe, but had similar stats around Henderson & McLeod in early 2011
> before I moved.  (For the record, my ping/latency to the Rainy Day server
> is typically 0-11 ms.)****
>
>  ****
>
> My Vonage VoIP is flawless here, just as good as Shaw phone, but
> interestingly, my Vonage VoIP is virtually perfect even on my MTS Internet,
> which is typically 5-6 Mbps down / 0.34 Mbps up / ping 57 ms.  Both my Shaw
> and my MTS have very little jitter or packet losses (important parameters
> for VoIP in addition to up/down/latency).****
>
>  ****
>
> Hmmm, maybe we should morph this into a VoIP discussion.  How many of you
> fellow MUUG members are using serious VoIP, and what are your results?  I
> have extensive Vonage and Skype experience, Vonage being dead-serious VoIP
> and Skype less so, but itself superb in its Skype-to-Skype primary form
> (SkypeIn and SkypeOut are much weaker).  OK, have I started the ball
> rolling?****
>
>  ****
>
> Hartmut Sager (a pretty quiet member, typically just reading our
> RoundTable)****
>
>  ****
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