CityWest Speeds, October 2007

system · October 17, 2007, 2:48am

An interesting sidenote here that might have some bearing on the CityWest speed issue … I just moved from Rupert to Terrace and now live about 15 mins south of Terrace. Believe it or not I have Telus 3mb ADSL service (pretty damn fast - better than CityWest). When I traceroute to citywest.ca guess the path that Telus follows … down to Vancouver and up to Prince Rupert via Navigata!!! How’s that for green apples - and that test on speedtest.net was pretty damn slow.

So much for the CityWest fibre line between Rupert and Terrace …

system · October 17, 2007, 3:21am

nite time speeds are crappy still

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since my speeds when I access the net are less then the 10% of what we are supposed to get why can’t we pay less then 10% of the price?

system · October 17, 2007, 3:46am

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system · October 17, 2007, 4:11am

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system · October 17, 2007, 5:01am

OK I will finally ask for forgiveness due to my ignorance.
WHY is there such a download difference between Bandit and alexcees download speeds?
Thats frickin disgraceful…isnt it?

system · October 17, 2007, 5:11am

[quote=“mcsash”]
OK I will finally ask for forgiveness due to my ignorance.
WHY is there such a download difference between Bandit and alexcees download speeds?
Thats frickin disgraceful…isnt it?[/quote]

I blame Herb Pond.

system · October 17, 2007, 5:26am

Within Vancouver

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Vancouver to CityWest

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This is just sad.

Just hope Rogers come to your neck of the woods ASAP.

system · October 17, 2007, 5:33am

I guess higher education really is worth it!

system · October 18, 2007, 3:47am

Rogers internet would still have to go through crappy telus internet

system · October 18, 2007, 7:22pm

My friend said he had a talk with the supervisor person there and they said it would take $32 million to get it back to what it was before and everyone would probably have to start paynig $10 extra if they wanted it to keep it like that.

system · October 20, 2007, 4:54pm

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system · October 20, 2007, 8:48pm

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Hmmm… getting better than I thought.

Once in a lifetime I think.

system · October 21, 2007, 2:38am

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Surfing USA

system · October 21, 2007, 4:53am

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Our new rural wireless link. It varies with load per radio, but this is pretty ‘average’.

Looks like today was the last mountaintop trip, barely made it to the top. Slimey as hell, solid ice within days. Hung a huge 20db 90degree sectoral and amp’d access point, the new stations can handle 2 SSIDs. If one transmitter fails, they switch to the other.
I really need to access the other mountain to do the same thing, the latest AP & sectorals have quadruple the strength.
Tomorrow we’re installing subscribers # 93, 94 and 95. #100 should get a free install, don’t you think*?

*the guys on dedicated P2P shots don’t count. Neither do employees AP shots.