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Originally Posted by willystyle

Alot of misinformation in this thread.

First of all, your broadband connection does not degrade as more nodes/frequency are used in your household; such as, turning on a TV. This is cable, not ADSL.

Second, those of you who are on Broadband 50 and higher. I am assuming that you are using a DOCSIS 3.0 modem, the SMC or Motorola modems supplied by Shaw. You should be getting near your rated broadband speed, regardless of ANYTIME of the day. Provided that you are connecting directly to the modem, and not a router/switch, as the older devices can degrade the quality of your connection. The older "G" and "N" routers (like Linksys WRT54GL, WRT54G, etc.) cannot handle anything more than 35Mbps throughput, so if your bottlenecking around this speed on a Broadband 50 or higher package. It's your router!

Speed should be consistent and never degrade at any time of the day, unless they are performing upgrades/maintenance in your area. With the recent abandonment of analog channels, they've opened up even more bandwidth for Internet speed. So if your Internet is slow with Shaw, most likely its hardware on your side thats bottlenecking your connection.

nah it has nothing to do with my router.. i was on warp for the longest time with the same setup and i was getting constant 50mbps download 2.5mbps upload.. went back to xtreme speed was fine too.. until i went to this so call *NEW* netgear pos docsis 3 nothing but problems, had to disable it's router feature and use it like a modem only direct to it or thru a router the speedtest is exactly the same regardless of time and which speedtest i use.. never over 20mbps upload is always fine though. everytime i call they give me some bullshit answer.. anything over 20mbps it's working as intended.. i had to switch out of my retention plan to get this and i'm getting not even 50% of the advertise speed