[16:44] <MikeS11> Hello fellow Canadians!
[16:58] <dscassel_> Hi MikeS11. :)
[16:58] <MikeS11> have a good weekend?
[16:58] <dscassel> Yeah, actually.
[16:59] <dscassel> I'd been offline most of last week. Managed to get internets back on Sunday.
[16:59] <dscassel> Do anything exciting?
[16:59] <MikeS11> backcountry skiing, bought a truck. needless to say it was a good weekend.
[16:59] <dscassel> Nice. :)
[16:59] <dscassel> Where'd you ski?
[17:00] <MikeS11> http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=h&ll=50.355866%2C-122.405548&spn=0.05279%2C0.154324&z=13
[17:01] <MikeS11> southern BC. coast mountain range. very close to whistler.
[17:13] <MikeS11> dscassel: I started with shaw for my internet last week. I got a great deal and they hooked me up the next morning. Which provider are you with?
[18:02] <dscassel> MikeS11: I'm on Primus.  I got grandfathered in after they bought magma (which bought wiznet, which bought dsl.ca, which was the last ISP I actually signed up with).
[18:02] <MikeS11> :S
[18:03] <dscassel> I'm thinking about switching to TechSavvy cable. Not that Primus is horrible, but they're ambiguous about whether they filter.
[18:05] <MikeS11> In BC the big ISPs are telus/shaw. shaw doesn't filter, they don't forward nastygrams(pirating) and they have a feature called speedboost (first little bit of a download is unmetered with no restrictions on your speed). telus does non of this.
[18:06] <dscassel> My choices for big players in SW Ontario are Bell and Rogers. I'll take none of the above. :P
[18:06] <MikeS11> Noted, in case I move out east.
[18:07] <dscassel> I think Shaw is in Toronto, but not here.
[19:15] <johanbr> I don't think Shaw has any end-user networks in Toronto
[19:15] <johanbr> they bought Mountain Cable in Hamilton a year or two ago, which apparently caused Rogers to throw a fit
[19:16] <johanbr> they had some kind of agreement not to enter each other's territory
[19:16] <dscassel> Hurray for collusion!
[19:16] <johanbr> exactly!