I was just curious if anyone in the Vancouver area that uses Shaw internet has issues with intermittent connection problems during the bad weather?
As per the norm, Shaw blames my equipment and they have no issues.
This is the second round at this time of year that the connection poops out on me. It seems to be with the cold, rainy weather. During the dry warmer days, it's like gold, but when the fall hits, the connection drops (modem never drops, just the connection...long enough to boot me from a webpage, or online game server). I get 'request timed out' when running ping tests.
I have even tried Telus (big mistake) and they had to drop the speed down to dial-up speed just to make it more 'consistent'...um right, and the modem still dropped. Telus at least had a reason as to why it was their fault...it was because I'm in the middle of the two nodes...so no matter which way I get put, I get slow service from them.
But Shaw...rarr, where's the reasoning behind my crappy connection...
Anyone else going through this or have gone through this and know what to do? or say to the asstards at Shaw?
As per the norm, Shaw blames my equipment and they have no issues.
This is the second round at this time of year that the connection poops out on me. It seems to be with the cold, rainy weather. During the dry warmer days, it's like gold, but when the fall hits, the connection drops (modem never drops, just the connection...long enough to boot me from a webpage, or online game server). I get 'request timed out' when running ping tests.
I have even tried Telus (big mistake) and they had to drop the speed down to dial-up speed just to make it more 'consistent'...um right, and the modem still dropped. Telus at least had a reason as to why it was their fault...it was because I'm in the middle of the two nodes...so no matter which way I get put, I get slow service from them.
But Shaw...rarr, where's the reasoning behind my crappy connection...
Anyone else going through this or have gone through this and know what to do? or say to the asstards at Shaw?