Just switched to Lightspeed.ca From Shaw

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Okay because I figured people may want to know someone who’s had experience doing it themselves.

I had 50M at a discounted rate of 50% but that ended beginning of June and they weren’t offering any decent deals. In fact rates have gone up from when I started with them. So time to switch. I went through the list of 3rd party services and found out that lightspeed now had Cable access and were offering by far the best deal on 30M rates. Also no download cap. The only reason I had 50 with Shaw was because I regularly go over 300Gigs a month.

It only took a week to get switched over. Surprising since I heard stories of taking a month or more. Seems pretty stable after a couple hiccups first couple days. That being said Shaw hiccuped too so could still be them. Speedtest only 9.6 Down 2.67U atm. up speed is about what I had with Shaw and is better then the 2.5advertised. Course 9.6 isn’t 30 but it is 3pm atm so lots of business traffic I suspect. I’ve easily had 2Megs a sec download with torrent at night so I know it can get better. I’ll see later tonight for more speed tests.

Anywho if the price is what matters then seems to be the best atm. I THINK that if you own an older modem you can get away with 25M without having to buy a new one. Not sure on that as I did go 30 so got a new one. Also needed a new firewall as the one from Shaw was an all in 1. Lightspeed’s isn’t.

If your looking for the Cable rates/specs its on this page half way down.

http://www.lightspeed.ca/personal/ratescable.html#table

And if you do go with them and mention my name when they call you to confirm your order, I think there’s a discount on the installation charge.

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I’m going to have to take a closer look at this.

I signed up for Shaw’s Unlimited 100 way back when, and it’s followed me through two moves now. It’s come in handy – one month I ended up downloading 1 TB of data.

Basically, from looking at Lightspeed, it looks like the trade-off would be no more free Shaw Go Wifi ( I can put up to 10 devices on my plan via MAC address, which can then access Shaw Go Wifi for free ), but it’d be $40 cheaper per month.

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The fact that they are advertising a AAAA record for their web server, but it isn’t actually working is not inspiring confidence (and breaks their website for me):

[ktims@zero:~]
$> dig +short aaaa www.lightspeed.ca
2605:7c00:3::31
[ktims@zero:~]
$> telnet -6 www.lightspeed.ca 80
Trying 2605:7c00:3::31...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection timed out

I am curious if their network is actually involved in service delivery or not, though. Haven’t dealt with this sort of wholesaled Shaw service, but I believe Shaw delivers the entire service all the way to the Internet and Lightspeed would just be a middle man in the business transaction. I’d be curious to know who owns the IP you’re assigned.

Might be in the market for my own service change soon, may consider them depending on how the service is delivered, though I’m not really a fan of Shaw’s cable plant and the way they manage it.

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I searched my IP comes up as Skyway West.

You were using telnet to access their company webserver?

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Interesting. I guess I was wrong about the way this service is delivered. Thanks for checking, unfortunately this just raises more questions :stuck_out_tongue:.

No, to demonstrate that it’s down. I could have done this instead, but it’s a lot wordier:

[ktims@zero:~]
$> wget -O /dev/null http://www.lightspeed.ca/
--2015-06-10 15:33:27--  http://www.lightspeed.ca/
Resolving www.lightspeed.ca (www.lightspeed.ca)... 2605:7c00:3::31, 206.12.82.205
Connecting to www.lightspeed.ca (www.lightspeed.ca)|2605:7c00:3::31|:80... failed: Connection timed out.
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Thanks for posting your experiences, I’m currently in the midst of the same switch myself.

I’m wondering why you picked Cable over ADSL? I haven’t decided which to go with yet.

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I’ve had both at this place. Cable was by far the faster. I’d sell both of them to slayers though to get Novusnet back

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I just switched to LightSpeed too but I am looking at this now! http://urbanfibre.ca/ Holy Awesomeness!

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I just signed up at urbanfibre. But I’m not sure I’ll be able to handle the shock if they phone me and actually say I can get it where I am now. And not sometime in the next 10 years.

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And that’s a no go., Reply I got was “We are currently only targeting MDU’s (multi dwelling units, 50+ suites) in the Metro Vancouver area for Residential services”. And I don’t fit that.