Telus Fiber

Fiber has been great for me. I have 150/150 but routinely get 175-200 with no downtime so far.

One thing to note is if you still have a landline they will switch it to fiber so if your fiber line is down you'll have no phone.

Fibre doesn't use a modem. Telus's gateway is acting as a router only. If you don't have Optik TV you can use pretty much whatever router you want in place of the Telus one. If you have Optik TV what some people do is put a gigabit switch at the fibre terminal and have their own router for everything that isn't TV, and only the Telus one for just the TVs.

I say do it - I don't think you'll regret it.

I was with Shaw for years and eventually switched and haven't looked back.

Shaw was the better option for years (and to be honest, are still a fine option - ignoring the whole functional monopoly angle) but have rested on their laurels and are tied to their legacy infrastructure and Telus has hustled (and by hustled I mean spent billions) and caught up and passed them.

Telus install was smooth (I imagine it's somewhat installer dependent - mine was great) and it has been bombproof since I got it.

You'll hear horror stories about Telus sucking, just like you'll hear stories about Shaw sucking. More often than not, both are fine unless you're unlucky and then both can be a nightmare to deal with.

Keep hustling for price - you can almost certainly do better by playing one off the other. Despite being a longtime loyal customer, Shaw wouldn't give me the time of day until I switched to Telus and *Telus* put in the takeout order with Shaw. Shaw called me minutes later with a very sharp pencil. At that point it was too late but I used their offer to make Telus drop even more.

You can put the Telus box in bridge mode (yourself - you don't have to call like you do with Shaw) and use your own router.

I just wish I could get fiber at my place. It's still not ready to go.

I price matched Shaw's deal about 18 months ago for 150/25, but I'm still sitting on 75/15.

It's time to switch back to Shaw I'm thinking. What's the cost for the Shaw 600/20 package?