Comments on: TELUS ADSL2 Rocks My World

By: The telus guy

The telus guy — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 05:24:06 +0000

Yes VDSL service is available in Tsawwassen

By: Angus

Angus — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 03:06:16 +0000

Just so u know buddy ur on glue about the shaw statement I live in Vancouver and am getting 29mbps out of my shaw and they currently offer a 100mbps service here in vancouver so I’m sorry to tell u your internet still sucks =)

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:43:06 +0000

Actually the fibre went into a “hub” before getting to your unit where it went through a 1:32 splitter.

By: Janice

Janice — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:57:43 +0000

QUESTION – I’m moving to Beach Grove in Tsawwassen. I understand it has Telus TV and fibre optics. Any reviews for quality of service in that area? The only other service option I know of is Delta Cable. Thanks!

By: Chewie

Chewie — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:53:59 +0000

Chris,

I believe this is not ADSL2+ but refered to GPON (Gigabit Passive Optical Network). ADSL2+ still runs over your normal copper cables and still has the same upload speeds your used to with ADSL, but theoretical download speeds upto 25mb/s (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymmetric_Digital_Subscriber_Line_2_Plus).

For GPON, the Fiber comes into the neighborhood into a switch and then separate fiber cables run from the switch to each house. (See http://www.itu.int/itudoc/gs/promo/tsb/85155.pdf or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_optical_network)

By: darren

darren — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 23:58:56 +0000

Sounds fast…and I used to be a TELUS customer. Very happy with Shaw’s offer and speeds.

Plus…the billing at TELUS just about killed me (wrote a tonne about it)…

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 23:26:09 +0000

Phil – to answer your question, yes Telus ran fibre directly into my unit. The smarter setup would have been to run the fibre into a central hub and split it off into the homes from there, but they were in a real hurry to get the free trial up and running.

So I currently have a big Siemens fibre box in my garage where all the cable lives. It’s quite a cool setup.

By: Phil Liu

Phil Liu — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:40:11 +0000

Hi Chris,

Does Telus actually bring the fibre into one of the outlets on the wall or does it terminated into a special decoder, then you distribute the signal with a normal router ? I find this set up fascinating. We have fibre hubs on both end of our street but I have not heard fibre is being brought right into the house/suite itself.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 04:08:40 +0000

Oops. Excellent point D. I’ve corrected the post. Thanks for the heads up!

By: D

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:01:11 +0000

Hey, Chris. Your post would be much more impressive if you used the right units. Your average download speed is just under 25 Mbps (not kbps) and your upload is approximately 5 Mbps (again, not kbps). Your welcome!