True enough, you have to get it when it is right for you not because someone wants to sell you a house.

Yeah. Someone is always predicting that house prices will be going up. It's usually a realtor's group. They might be right, but I've got a few too many questions in the air right now, so I need to wait!

Just some very questionable unsolicited advice, If you are getting a house get one soon as there are some predictions of climbing house prices this summer.

On the other hand rising interest rates and stricter mortagage rules may hamper this decision.

Whatever you want, sweetie. You want a new internet service provider; I want a dining room (to build my Lego Millenium Falcon in). Sounds like we need to move. ; )

For another opinion, Telus' service once connected has been very good, although sometimes when someone calls, I lose my x-box live connection during an important hockey game against some teenagers from Vancouver. I can't tell you how much that chaps my A$$.

The big problem comes when you need to make any kind of change to anything, Telus is by far the worst company when it comes to that kind of service I've ever experienced ever. In my life. Period. Literally. I have vowed that next time I need to change phones/internet/anything telus-related, I'm just switching to Shaw. Hopefully my wife is on board.

thanks all for the input. my general dislike for telus had me on the shaw bandwagon beforehand, and this helped me solidify my thoughts. shaw will be by friday for morebetter internets for me. thanks, though if I doin't like it I now have many scapegoats to blame. thanks again!

the last, uh, 30 seconds of this video are hilarious.



"Stay in school, kids, read a book. ... Cadence Weapon - college dropout."

I saw a Pontiac Vibe with truck balls a few days ago, but I didn't have a picture of that to share.


We have Telus where I'm living now, and the internet cuts out if the phone rings.

We've got shaw at this house, and it's impeccable, despite having four+ computers running on it at once and phone service. Two years and no problems aside from one thunderstorm cut-out when the whole neighbourhood was in danger of being blown away and our cable wire was dancing in the wind. (it held fast though, and connectivity returned to full effect when the wind died away)

I had telus at the house previous to this one (for a year) and it took them over half a week to come out and fix the downed phone line in our back yard (internet and phone, bastards), AND they weren't all that interested in upgrading our lines so that we could actually GET service when I initially signed up.

My folks have run Shaw for years (since dial-up went away, pretty much). When our internet connectivity started to falter, I was on the phone with a technician within 20 minutes during peak hours. Once we'd exhausted all the remote-in options he and I could do in synchronicity over the phone, they sent a technician out to our house. The cable connecting our house to the grid had decomposed, apparently, and they quite happily replaced it in the spring once the ground had thawed.

Over all, I would have to say that the on-the-ground service from Shaw has easily surpassed Telus, by miles. Over the phone, I don't really know, I didn't talk to Telus all that much besides getting a lippy operator asking me why I was able to use my phone if the line had been knocked down in a storm...

My vote's Shaw.