Telus.net account
My experience with PureFibre X 3.0 Gigabit Internet
2024.05.04 06:27 Few-Ad3972 My experience with PureFibre X 3.0 Gigabit Internet
edit: May 28, 2024
Their security measures policy correctly lists the ports that are blocked. My port scans in the comments were invalid. My latest test shows that the port 25/smtp is open for Rogers/Shaw but filtered for Telus. I still have both plans.
It's fast!
From a consumer-like-me point of view, the security policy is stupidly restricting "to protect me". However, if you pay (a lot) more, you can get a business account that does not block any ports. Go figure.
I had 15 days to trial the service and decided to cancel after 5 days. There is no option (I've talked to many Telus departments - tech support tiers, loyalty, business sales, etc) to unblock ports except to go to a business account which doesn't block ports. The business account is over $200/month on a 3-year contract (without a promo). With a promo, I was offered as low as $115/month on a 5-year contract, $135/month on a 3-year contract.
There are a lot of technical details behind my testing but not worth mentioning here. Things may be different on the lower tier speeds but for 3Gb, you receive the Network Access Hub (Technicolor NH20T), an SPF+ XGS PON and the WiFi 6E. The NH20T is what's registered on the Telus back end, so you cannot bypass the NAH, plugging the SPF+ module directly into another device.
It was a fun 5 days... but it wasn't something that was going to work for me in the long run. Again, if having incoming ports open is important to you, don't bother. Rogers/Shaw doesn't block ports.
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Their security measures policy correctly lists the ports that are blocked. My port scans in the comments were invalid. My latest test shows that the port 25/smtp is open for Rogers/Shaw but filtered for Telus. I still have both plans.
Speedtest by Ookla Server: TELUS - Vancouver, BC (id: 3049) ISP: Shaw Communications Idle Latency: 2.50 ms (jitter: 0.14ms, low: 2.48ms, high: 3.00ms) Download: 3094.32 Mbps (data used: 3.1 GB) 11.54 ms (jitter: 0.40ms, low: 2.46ms, high: 12.58ms) Upload: 3067.65 Mbps (data used: 1.5 GB) 7.62 ms (jitter: 0.62ms, low: 2.41ms, high: 9.48ms) Packet Loss: Not available. Result URL: https://www.speedtest.net/result/c/xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxxI have had Shaw (now Rogers) 1.5Gb down/150Mb up for many years. Telus sent me a SPRINGSAVINGS promo code for Residential service. The promo was:
1.0Gb up/1.0Gb down for $65/month on a 2-year contract 1.5Gb up/1.5Gb down for $75/month on a 2-year contract 3.0Gb up/3.0Gb down for $85/month on a 2-year contractI signed up for 3.0Gb and after a lengthy installation process, I was testing. I never canceled Rogers/Shaw yet. However, the brass tacks of it all is I hate to report that Telus filters incoming ports for Residential service. If this matters to you, it's a big problem. Their security measures policy mentions certain ports are blocked but in fact, all incoming ports seem to be blocked.
From a consumer-like-me point of view, the security policy is stupidly restricting "to protect me". However, if you pay (a lot) more, you can get a business account that does not block any ports. Go figure.
I had 15 days to trial the service and decided to cancel after 5 days. There is no option (I've talked to many Telus departments - tech support tiers, loyalty, business sales, etc) to unblock ports except to go to a business account which doesn't block ports. The business account is over $200/month on a 3-year contract (without a promo). With a promo, I was offered as low as $115/month on a 5-year contract, $135/month on a 3-year contract.
There are a lot of technical details behind my testing but not worth mentioning here. Things may be different on the lower tier speeds but for 3Gb, you receive the Network Access Hub (Technicolor NH20T), an SPF+ XGS PON and the WiFi 6E. The NH20T is what's registered on the Telus back end, so you cannot bypass the NAH, plugging the SPF+ module directly into another device.
It was a fun 5 days... but it wasn't something that was going to work for me in the long run. Again, if having incoming ports open is important to you, don't bother. Rogers/Shaw doesn't block ports.
2024.03.23 21:16 random20190826 Do you support a blanket ban on SMS 2FA for all banks in Canada?
Recently, Global News reported on a story about a Toronto couple losing $140 000 in a SIM-swap attack. While the amount is large, there have been numerous cases in the past where bank and cryptocurrency accounts have been hacked into. I hope that all victims of these crimes get all their money back.
I am not a computer expert, just a student who is studying computer programming. But what I know is that it is trivially easy to port a phone number out. I know this because there was a phone number that was in my sister's name as a postpaid number with Freedom Mobile, and I managed to pretend to be her even though I am a man. I SIM-swapped and ported the phone number out to China Telecom (a Chinese carrier using Telus) under my name instead of hers and it became a prepaid line. Months later, I was able to port it back to Freedom Mobile under another prepaid plan, again using my name.
With porting being so easy to do (there is 0 ID verification and of course, there is no credit check because it is prepaid), it should be obvious to everyone now that using a phone number to verify someone's identity for online banking/investment/cryptocurrency is a very dangerous idea. Also, I would like to mention that because the codes are sent by text, they can in theory be phished (someone can trigger the code to be sent to your phone and call you pretending to be the bank and trick you into giving it to them). A code that is generated by the app cannot be phished because there is no push notification, only an active pull by you (the user). Therefore, a lot more has to go wrong for you to get scammed if authenticator apps become the only means of online banking authentication.
In fact, discount brokerage Questrade recognizes this and disables SMS-based authentication if you set up an authenticator app. Later, even the Canada Revenue Agency started to recognize this and started allowing taxpayers to use app-based authentication instead of text/phone call authentication. On CRA My Account, you have to add the authenticator app by scanning a QR code, then remove your phone number. Every time you log in, it will prompt for that one-time code. Short of stealing your phone and knowing the passcode, a hacker is not getting into your account.
Right now, from what I gather, most banks have their own authenticator apps for logging into online banking. But as a TD customer, I see that it can be bypassed and we revert back to SMS. This means our bank accounts are no more secure now than they were before the app came into existence. To truly solve this, one must disable phone call/text/email authentication for good.
So, do any of you here want Parliament to pass a banking safety law that mandates app-based or physical security key based authentication to the exclusion of email and SMS, and only allowing authenticator resets in person with ID? Will banks like this legislation because now, they can deny 99.99% of all online bank fraud claims, or will their branches get swamped with requests after people lose their phone, gets it stolen or destroyed?
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I am not a computer expert, just a student who is studying computer programming. But what I know is that it is trivially easy to port a phone number out. I know this because there was a phone number that was in my sister's name as a postpaid number with Freedom Mobile, and I managed to pretend to be her even though I am a man. I SIM-swapped and ported the phone number out to China Telecom (a Chinese carrier using Telus) under my name instead of hers and it became a prepaid line. Months later, I was able to port it back to Freedom Mobile under another prepaid plan, again using my name.
With porting being so easy to do (there is 0 ID verification and of course, there is no credit check because it is prepaid), it should be obvious to everyone now that using a phone number to verify someone's identity for online banking/investment/cryptocurrency is a very dangerous idea. Also, I would like to mention that because the codes are sent by text, they can in theory be phished (someone can trigger the code to be sent to your phone and call you pretending to be the bank and trick you into giving it to them). A code that is generated by the app cannot be phished because there is no push notification, only an active pull by you (the user). Therefore, a lot more has to go wrong for you to get scammed if authenticator apps become the only means of online banking authentication.
In fact, discount brokerage Questrade recognizes this and disables SMS-based authentication if you set up an authenticator app. Later, even the Canada Revenue Agency started to recognize this and started allowing taxpayers to use app-based authentication instead of text/phone call authentication. On CRA My Account, you have to add the authenticator app by scanning a QR code, then remove your phone number. Every time you log in, it will prompt for that one-time code. Short of stealing your phone and knowing the passcode, a hacker is not getting into your account.
Right now, from what I gather, most banks have their own authenticator apps for logging into online banking. But as a TD customer, I see that it can be bypassed and we revert back to SMS. This means our bank accounts are no more secure now than they were before the app came into existence. To truly solve this, one must disable phone call/text/email authentication for good.
So, do any of you here want Parliament to pass a banking safety law that mandates app-based or physical security key based authentication to the exclusion of email and SMS, and only allowing authenticator resets in person with ID? Will banks like this legislation because now, they can deny 99.99% of all online bank fraud claims, or will their branches get swamped with requests after people lose their phone, gets it stolen or destroyed?
2024.03.13 01:35 Semi-Efficient-Crab I am 31 years old, make $85,000, live in Vancouver, BC, and juggle work, potential layoffs, and so much caregiving this week
Section One: Assets and Debt
TFSA: $110,109.08
FHSA: $10,145.23
RRSP: $36,887.13
These three accounts are combined into one Passiv-managed portfolio (20% bonds/80% index ETFs) on Questrade. I worked with an investing coach to create an investment portfolio that reflects my values: no Big Ag, no Big Oil, no carceral institutions, investments in women-led and sustainable enterprises blah blah blah. If you’re Canadian and interested in this type of investment coaching (I promise I am not a shill and I don’t get commission), DM me and I can pass it along.
Equity: none.
Municipal pension: ~$21,000? I get $250/month after age 55.
Savings account balance: $46,590.58. I consider $22K of this to be my emergency fund, and the remainder is a downpayment fund.
Checking account balance: $150. I have a no-fee account so I keep just enough money in here to avoid getting those annoying ‘your account balance is low’ emails.
Credit card debt (and how you accumulated it): none.
Student loan debt: $14,847.56 for my Master’s. I chose to do a thesis-based rather than course-based degree because there are more scholarships available for thesis-based in my field. I bet that I had a better chance of having less debt this way and it worked out, although the career prospects were less defined. I received 50K in funding and scholarships over two years, took out loans to cover the difference for my living expenses (I moved to a different city for school), and my ADHD qualified me for a disability stipend through Student Aid. That's the first time ADHD has ever resulted in a nice surprise instead of, say, me freaking out that I lost my glasses and then realizing that they were on my face. This is interest-free so it doesn’t make financial sense for me to pay it off right now. I previously received $7,000 from my parents via RESP, which covered most of my first year of undergrad, and then I paid for the rest (~$35K) in cash by living at home and working throughout.
Section Two: Income
Income Progression: During undergrad, I made anywhere from $11-25 per hour and worked 10-40 hours a week in a passel of random jobs: research, reception, accounts payable, Co-op terms, and some other stuff that I’ve forgotten. My first job was in reception, I was a nepo hire, and I sucked at it. Once I graduated and realized that working in finance literally made me suicidal, I moved to the government where I made $55,000 and got an annual 2% COL adjustment. After a couple of years of this and realizing I would be promoted once someone either retired or died or both, I left to do my Master’s. During that time, I worked 20 hours/week at $20/hour as an RA. I've been working in comms for nine months and my starting salary here is $85,000. Now my org is going through layoffs and budget cuts… so… who knows what’ll happen!
Main Job Monthly Take Home: $4,394.90 net after EI, CPP, income taxes, and health insurance premium are taken off my gross pay. I don't have any other sources of income... bank interest?
Section Three: Expenses
Rent/Electric/Wifi/Cable/Landline/Home Insurance: $700 all-in. I pay reduced rent because I live with family; this payment includes all that stuff and groceries when I don’t pay for them. I’ve lived with my family and have paid $700 to $800 per month in rent since I began working full-time, save for a few years when I lived elsewhere. That’s how I was able to save on a lower salary in Vancouver.
Retirement contribution: $200 to my RRSP. I’ve decreased this because I upped my savings contribution for a deposit (see below).
Savings contribution: $2,200. I aim for one paycheque every month. I’m trying to build up a deposit to purchase a one-bed apartment within an hour of my parents’ place and a ~15 minute walk from any (seriously, any) Skytrain station. Sorry to Maple Ditch. CIBC says I can afford a mortgage of $391K at current interest rates on my salary and my entire TFSA & FHSA as a down payment. That is the very highest and I would be very house poor, but there is nothing out there that currently fits these criteria. “Well, why not rent?” you might ask. The current median rent for a one-bed in Vancouver is $2,950. My last roommate set-up started out okay but eventually involved cockroaches, rats, pigeons having babies on the balcony and using it as their communal shitting ground, and a dead wild animal (the roommate brought IN the animal and we no longer speak). It is not ideal that I live with my parents in my 30s, but my framing is here I can help out and save money for a deposit (even though it seems Sisyphean). Also, no roaches. My pipe dream is for someone to build missing middle housing for my ass that isn’t 65% of my take-home but in the meantime I save and dodge my family when I need space. Also, the no roaches thing... important!
Debt payments: $137 to student loans.
Monthly Donations:
Monthly subscriptions:
Gym membership: $38.57, annual plan paid monthly. You will notice that this is the only time that I talk about the gym in this diary, but honestly that's about as often as I go anyway.
Biweekly therapy & meds: these are covered under my employer health plan. I chose an MSW-prepared therapist because it's covered by insurance and once I’m over my plan limit, it's a tax-deductible expense in BC. I couldn’t do the same if I saw a registered clinical counselor, for example. Otherwise it’s $300/month for therapy and $300/month for meds. Additionally, I irregularly re-up on prescription asthma, eczema, and muscle relaxant meds, but those are covered by insurance too.
Physio: $170 for two visits per month, covered by insurance.
Paid hobbies: weekly-ish vocal lessons, $160/month.
Day 1:
Day 2:
Day 3:
Day 4:
Day 5.
Day 6:
Day 7:
Weekly Total:
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TFSA: $110,109.08
FHSA: $10,145.23
RRSP: $36,887.13
These three accounts are combined into one Passiv-managed portfolio (20% bonds/80% index ETFs) on Questrade. I worked with an investing coach to create an investment portfolio that reflects my values: no Big Ag, no Big Oil, no carceral institutions, investments in women-led and sustainable enterprises blah blah blah. If you’re Canadian and interested in this type of investment coaching (I promise I am not a shill and I don’t get commission), DM me and I can pass it along.
Equity: none.
Municipal pension: ~$21,000? I get $250/month after age 55.
Savings account balance: $46,590.58. I consider $22K of this to be my emergency fund, and the remainder is a downpayment fund.
Checking account balance: $150. I have a no-fee account so I keep just enough money in here to avoid getting those annoying ‘your account balance is low’ emails.
Credit card debt (and how you accumulated it): none.
Student loan debt: $14,847.56 for my Master’s. I chose to do a thesis-based rather than course-based degree because there are more scholarships available for thesis-based in my field. I bet that I had a better chance of having less debt this way and it worked out, although the career prospects were less defined. I received 50K in funding and scholarships over two years, took out loans to cover the difference for my living expenses (I moved to a different city for school), and my ADHD qualified me for a disability stipend through Student Aid. That's the first time ADHD has ever resulted in a nice surprise instead of, say, me freaking out that I lost my glasses and then realizing that they were on my face. This is interest-free so it doesn’t make financial sense for me to pay it off right now. I previously received $7,000 from my parents via RESP, which covered most of my first year of undergrad, and then I paid for the rest (~$35K) in cash by living at home and working throughout.
Section Two: Income
Income Progression: During undergrad, I made anywhere from $11-25 per hour and worked 10-40 hours a week in a passel of random jobs: research, reception, accounts payable, Co-op terms, and some other stuff that I’ve forgotten. My first job was in reception, I was a nepo hire, and I sucked at it. Once I graduated and realized that working in finance literally made me suicidal, I moved to the government where I made $55,000 and got an annual 2% COL adjustment. After a couple of years of this and realizing I would be promoted once someone either retired or died or both, I left to do my Master’s. During that time, I worked 20 hours/week at $20/hour as an RA. I've been working in comms for nine months and my starting salary here is $85,000. Now my org is going through layoffs and budget cuts… so… who knows what’ll happen!
Main Job Monthly Take Home: $4,394.90 net after EI, CPP, income taxes, and health insurance premium are taken off my gross pay. I don't have any other sources of income... bank interest?
Section Three: Expenses
Rent/Electric/Wifi/Cable/Landline/Home Insurance: $700 all-in. I pay reduced rent because I live with family; this payment includes all that stuff and groceries when I don’t pay for them. I’ve lived with my family and have paid $700 to $800 per month in rent since I began working full-time, save for a few years when I lived elsewhere. That’s how I was able to save on a lower salary in Vancouver.
Retirement contribution: $200 to my RRSP. I’ve decreased this because I upped my savings contribution for a deposit (see below).
Savings contribution: $2,200. I aim for one paycheque every month. I’m trying to build up a deposit to purchase a one-bed apartment within an hour of my parents’ place and a ~15 minute walk from any (seriously, any) Skytrain station. Sorry to Maple Ditch. CIBC says I can afford a mortgage of $391K at current interest rates on my salary and my entire TFSA & FHSA as a down payment. That is the very highest and I would be very house poor, but there is nothing out there that currently fits these criteria. “Well, why not rent?” you might ask. The current median rent for a one-bed in Vancouver is $2,950. My last roommate set-up started out okay but eventually involved cockroaches, rats, pigeons having babies on the balcony and using it as their communal shitting ground, and a dead wild animal (the roommate brought IN the animal and we no longer speak). It is not ideal that I live with my parents in my 30s, but my framing is here I can help out and save money for a deposit (even though it seems Sisyphean). Also, no roaches. My pipe dream is for someone to build missing middle housing for my ass that isn’t 65% of my take-home but in the meantime I save and dodge my family when I need space. Also, the no roaches thing... important!
Debt payments: $137 to student loans.
Monthly Donations:
- Islamic Relief Canada: $20
- Ecojustice: $15
- ACORN: $15
- UNIST'OT'EN Camp: $20
Monthly subscriptions:
- Spotify: $3, family plan
- The Tyee: $20, Canada's best local journalism
- Amex cobalt fee: $12.99
- Netflix: covered by sister
Gym membership: $38.57, annual plan paid monthly. You will notice that this is the only time that I talk about the gym in this diary, but honestly that's about as often as I go anyway.
Biweekly therapy & meds: these are covered under my employer health plan. I chose an MSW-prepared therapist because it's covered by insurance and once I’m over my plan limit, it's a tax-deductible expense in BC. I couldn’t do the same if I saw a registered clinical counselor, for example. Otherwise it’s $300/month for therapy and $300/month for meds. Additionally, I irregularly re-up on prescription asthma, eczema, and muscle relaxant meds, but those are covered by insurance too.
Physio: $170 for two visits per month, covered by insurance.
Paid hobbies: weekly-ish vocal lessons, $160/month.
Day 1:
- Wake up late. What year is it?
- Take the bus to meet Sibling #1 at Grandma’s care home - feed her lunch, clip her nails, clean up her room [$2.55, Compass card]. Grandma has recently gotten through the flu and COVID and the only thing we noticed was a light fever (both times) and extra grumpiness. Go grandma! Powered by spite!
- Get hot chocolate for both of us. It’s the Hot Chocolate festival right now so lots of fun flavours. I pay $26.25 for two cups of hot chocolate the size of my fist and two mini muffins. That pricing is less fun.
- Sibling drives us home. We tag-team cleaning the house.
- Dad is grumbling about a sore throat so we make him test for COVID and he’s positive. Fuck. My mom just had COVID and three family birthdays are coming up. That’s great. We chuck him into the furthest bedroom and bleach the shit out of everything he’s so much as breathed near.
- Ah fuck. I cannot do a community event this week that I was really looking forward to. We need to move it online. Loud noise of frustration. Email the organizer that we have to move it online. Be sad.
- I have to cancel my vocal lesson this week. I guess that’s $40 I save but it brings me joy and I’m sad to miss it too.
- Buy birthday cakes for pick-up later in the week - if we don’t go out then we might as well try to celebrate in a small way at home for now. [$83.90 for two cakes, one matcha mousse and one chestnut cake, but my sibling and I will split this cost so $41.95].
- Text boss - I need to bring mom to her doctor’s appointment on Monday because my dad can’t go with her any more. Boss says yes, thankfully.
- I don’t make dinner so I clean up afterwards.
- Waste time on the internet.
Day 2:
- Check on dad, make sure he’s still breathing, make him take his meds, hydrate, etc. He’s wearing a mask to sleep. Why the fuck is he wearing a mask to sleep?
- Prep for my community event. Mess around with my slide deck. Message my interpreter and be more sad.
- Dad breathing? Good.
- Make lunch. Stare outside. It’s gross and grey over here right now.
- Dad's listening to some weird conspiracy theory podcast but it’s in a language I don’t understand and I am not about to argue with him about propaganda and mis/disinformation (for the 100th time…) when he has COVID.
- Make dinner. We have used everyone getting sick to convince my parents to use the dishwasher on a regular basis and we’re never going back.
- Dad breathing? Good.
- Waste time on the internet. Sleep at an ungodly hour.
Day 3:
- I WFH F/T. Start responding to Slack messages on my phone. Meds.
- Work. Today’s a half-day so I can bring my mom to her doctor’s appt.
- Test for COVID and I’m negative. I got COVID and my fifth booster within the last two months. I will be so pissed (maybe amazed?) at my immune system if I get the crud again so soon. Drive mom to the doctor.
- Drive her to the market. She buys stuff and then, as I’m starting to pull out of the parking spot, she screams that she forgot to pick something up and jumps out of the car while I try to back out of our parking spot. I nearly have a stroke.
- Drive her to a different market. I get some rice cakes and fruit. $13.09.
- Drive her to ANOTHER market. I get some household supplies and my weight in yoghurt. $57.91.
- Drive home. Dad is breathing and is still wearing a mask to sleep. I do not understand this man. Faceplant into the sofa after putting everything away.
- Prep food for the upcoming week and make dinner.
- Get into a tiff with Sibling #2 who wants to know when we’ll be rescheduling family dinner - this one doesn’t live at home. They are annoyed that my mom suggested rescheduling to next week, on a day they apparently made plans for two months ago. I’m annoyed that they’re not considering this: both of my parents and our grandma have been sick for 4+ weeks, Sibling #1 and I have been doing all of the caregiving and household tasks while continuing to work demanding full-time jobs, and my org is undergoing layoffs. They haven’t offered to visit Grandma, get groceries, or help out. Respectfully, I don’t give a shit about their plans. Their rudeness just exacerbates my annoyance.
- Can’t sleep because of adrenaline and anger, so I sleep at an ungodly hour.
Day 4:
- You know what, I don’t think I took my meds today and it’s too late…
- Work. Many spreadsheets.
- Make dad and me lunch, clean up.
- Work. Lots of client pressure right now so it is not fun. And layoffs!
- Is dad breathing? Yes he is. Go back to work.
- Work. Wrap up.
- Make my mom an appointment. My parents can speak and understand most English, except for the medical stuff. However, they have low English literacy so we (Sibling #1 and I, no one is surprised) take care of anything medical, paperwork, or tax-related for both them and my grandma, who is illiterate and has dementia so we have enduring POA.
- Time for my physio exercises. I am terrible at doing this regularly and shamefully skip this item on my to-do list more often than I’d like to admit.
- Start Doppelganger by Naomi Klein. I got her and Naomi Wolf mixed up for years so this is a very surreal book for me. This is a library speed-read so I have five days to finish it up and return it.
Day 5.
- Roll out of bed, literally hit the floor. I don’t think this is what JLo meant. Meds.
- Have a really awkward all-hands meeting. More layoffs are announced. I’ve been told that my role is safe for a couple more months. I barely have the mental capacity to watch TV. Even thinking about applying for a new job makes me want to cry, but I really want to move out of my parents’ and that will only happen if 1) I can save up enough and 2) I still have a job. Damn it.
- Work. Write. Check on dad.
- Lunch. Stare into the sun and will the Vitamin D into my bloodstream.
- Write some more. Check on dad. Wrap up.
- Meet with my interpreter for the community event and go over the deck.
- Email my doctor. I’ve finally been approved for a septoplasty via MSP! Yay! I also have a 12-18 month wait for surgery. Damn it. This is technically an elective procedure so me and my discount Breathe Right strips are just going to keep going until then because I will not pay for it privately. My siblings and I all have health issues that we’ve had since we were kids because my parents didn’t know they could be addressed. That’s not really their fault - can’t really be aware of something you were never taught. Now that we’re older and know that some of these things aren’t so normal, we’re addressing them and also paying for them. For example, you should not be able to hear me snoring or sneezing from outside the house, and life can be more than “you suffer and then you die” (thank you, Mom). I’ve taken time off in the past to deal with these things and I expect to do the same when I get this surgery. Thankfully I’ll likely be able to use sick leave when this comes around (in a year… or two…), but I haven’t been so lucky in the past.
- Nap.
- Time for the community event!! It goes well, other than when the organizer is all shady during the introduction and says "she's in the city but I don't know why she isn't here in person." Anthony, my dad has COVID and I'm not about to show up and expose your dumb ass. You know that! I told you!
- Late dinner, Doppelganger, sleep.
Day 6:
- Wake up. So tired. Meds.
- Work. Bleeeeeeeeaaaaaauuuuuurgh. Many noises of frustration.
- Dad. Alive. Not wearing a mask to sleep. Proof that we can change at any age, I guess.
- The meds have graced me with five minutes of focus instead of my usual zero. I use this gift to get through some shit at work. Meet with the boss. Not getting laid off yet. Awesome. Another nap, please.
- Make dinner. Trying to pan-fry semi-frozen pork chops is not a good idea. All the coating falls off and then it’s somehow dry and soggy at the same time… ?
- Call a friend! Love friends. I usually try to see them fairly often so these past few weeks have been pretty shit. I would like to spend more time cackling about celebrity gossip together and less time running after my family.
Day 7:
- Wake up. Meds, work, Dad is watching the Tucker Carlson interview with Putin and I spend 15 minutes talking to him about propaganda. Die a little on the inside. Sometimes I’m not sure whether they don’t actually understand me or if they’re pretending to not understand because they don’t want to listen to me.
- External announcement goes out about our layoffs. Hahaha fuck.
- Time to pick up birthday cake #1. Let’s hope that all of our post-COVID taste buds can appreciate this expensive-ass cake. That’s right, we’re ALL recently post-COVID. Every time I see someone cough or sneeze without a mask or without covering their mouths, I feel so much fucking rage.
- Deliver some soup to a friend who just had surprise surgery, the best kind! Get gas. $40.
- Back to work. Scrounge for leftovers in the fridge like a tired, grumpy vulture. At this point I’m pretty sure we both look the same.
- Dinner! Yay! Cake! Yay! We order out. $110, split between my sibling and I, so $55.
- Watch Netflix. Pass out.
Weekly Total:
- Food + Drink: $139.20.
- Fun / Entertainment: $0.
- Home + Health: $0.
- Clothes + Beauty: $0.
- Transport: $42.55
- Other: $0.
2024.03.01 05:39 Mission_Fluffy A stable and growing dividend at BCE? A cut would be a better idea
I expect this story from The Globe and Mail to get downvotes, but thought I'd share:
David Milstead Published Yesterday
BCE Inc. (BCE-T) is a member of the S&P/TSX Canadian Dividend Aristocrats Index, and aggressively so. The basket of stocks is reserved for companies who’ve simply raised their dividends, by any amount, in each of the past five years. BCE has far exceeded the minimum standard, choosing to hike payouts by 5 per cent annually for a decade.
It’s all over now, baby Bell.
BCE’s underwhelming 2023 results have forced the company’s board to dial back the dividend growth to 3.1 per cent for 2024. But cutting the dividend, not increasing it, would be the responsible thing to do – because BCE simply hasn’t been generating the cash to cover it.
There’s plenty of ways to measure dividend payout rate. What is it as a percentage of net income? Or EBITDA, the earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization? Or some measure of cash flow, particularly for a capital-heavy business such as BCE? And, importantly, what’s the right amount of profits or annual cash generation to send to shareholders? A range of 50 per cent to 75 per cent is optimal.
In pretty much any of these payout measures, however, BCE is uncomfortably above TELUS Inc. and Rogers Communications Inc., its peers. And by most of them, BCE is making unsustainable payouts.
The company’s 2023 dividends equalled 162 per cent of reported net income, the fourth straight year above 100 per cent and the 11th straight year above 80 per cent, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence. BCE’s dividends also exceeded the company’s free cash flow, or FCF – an estimate of cash flow after capital expenses, as calculated by S&P – in seven of the last nine years, including a 130-per-cent payout rate in 2023.
By S&P’s count, BCE has generated $25.8-billion of FCF since the end of 2012 and paid $29-billion in common dividends. And debt has nearly doubled since the end of 2013, to $34.4-billion.
This, understandably, isn’t how BCE presents it. The company has its own definition of FCF that has historically excluded an awful lot of things.
Spokesperson Ellen Murphy notes there is no standardized definition of free cash flow in the telecom industry, but says her company’s definition “is the most straight-forward among peers” and aligned to accounting standards. As BCE sees it, its last two payout rates were 111 per cent in 2023 and 108 per cent in 2022, which Ms. Murphy says “is higher than our policy range” because of elevated capital expenditures from “generational investments in our networks.”
Even the BCE bulls – and there are still a few – acknowledge that the decade of dividend growth has pushed the company’s current payout rate to an uncomfortable level. They think this issue is temporary.
But there are now plenty of folks who are deeply skeptical BCE can continue these payouts.
The dean of the doubters is likely Mark Rosen at Accountability Research Corp., who has been questioning BCE’s financial reporting, and health, for nearly a decade. In 2016, I wrote a column noting Mr. Rosen’s issues with how BCE was excluding acquisition costs and voluntary contributions to its employee pension plan from free cash flow. (They are practices that continue to this day.)
It’s fair to say investors brushed off the concerns, allowing the board to continue its dividend rampage. By the time of BCE’s most recent earnings, Mr. Rosen bemoaned “shareholder apathy and inertia regarding BCE’s weak free cash flow outlook.”
Yet he is not a lone voice in the wilderness. Desmond Lau at Veritas Investment Research Inc. and Vince Valentini of TD Securities Inc. have homed in on BCE’s accounting for the leases it uses for its satellites and other heavy equipment.
If BCE were to buy this equipment, the cash it spent would show up in capital expenditures, and hurt any FCF measure. Instead, since it leases them, most of the costs flow through the “cash from financing” portion of the cash-flow statement – appearing nowhere near any calculation of FCF. In 2021 and 2022, BCE reported a “cash outflow related to leases” between $1.2-billion and $1.3-billion; less than $400-million of that appeared in the income statement.
Mr. Lau has been subtracting $800-million from BCE’s FCF number to reflect these leasing costs: For example, BCE’s 2024 guidance for FCF is a range from $2.79-billion to $3.06-billion; Mr. Lau’s math is for FCF of $1.99-billion to $2.26-billion. With dividends assumed to be $3.64-billion, Mr. Lau estimates a 2024 payout ratio of as high as 183 per cent.
Mr. Valentini, of TD, discovered BCE’s lease outflows in September of last year in a financial-statement footnote, cut his rating on the stock and apologized to clients for what he called an “historic oversight.” He said “our new FCF estimates raise serious questions about dividend quality and dividend sustainability.”
And Patrick Horan of Agilith Capital says he’s shorting BCE simply because he doesn’t believe the company can cut back meaningfully on its current levels of capital spending. He says the telco industry is accelerating its technology, spending in order to save their existing subscribers.
“They’re on the treadmill to hell right now,” Mr. Horan said. “They have no choice. This dream of low capital intensity just isn’t around the corner and it’s never going to be.”
BCE’s Ms. Murphy says the company “reports capital lease repayments as a financing activity below free cash flow, which is in-line with accounting standards,” adding that “the disclosure is clear in our financial statements.” She also says “we appreciate that our shareholders want a stable and growing dividend, and we have been delivering consistently on that expectation.”
If the company’s leaders were prudent, they’d accept the new reality and realize a reset is in order. The aristocratic era of BCE dividends is over, because its cash flow makes it a commoner now.
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David Milstead Published Yesterday
BCE Inc. (BCE-T) is a member of the S&P/TSX Canadian Dividend Aristocrats Index, and aggressively so. The basket of stocks is reserved for companies who’ve simply raised their dividends, by any amount, in each of the past five years. BCE has far exceeded the minimum standard, choosing to hike payouts by 5 per cent annually for a decade.
It’s all over now, baby Bell.
BCE’s underwhelming 2023 results have forced the company’s board to dial back the dividend growth to 3.1 per cent for 2024. But cutting the dividend, not increasing it, would be the responsible thing to do – because BCE simply hasn’t been generating the cash to cover it.
There’s plenty of ways to measure dividend payout rate. What is it as a percentage of net income? Or EBITDA, the earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization? Or some measure of cash flow, particularly for a capital-heavy business such as BCE? And, importantly, what’s the right amount of profits or annual cash generation to send to shareholders? A range of 50 per cent to 75 per cent is optimal.
In pretty much any of these payout measures, however, BCE is uncomfortably above TELUS Inc. and Rogers Communications Inc., its peers. And by most of them, BCE is making unsustainable payouts.
The company’s 2023 dividends equalled 162 per cent of reported net income, the fourth straight year above 100 per cent and the 11th straight year above 80 per cent, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence. BCE’s dividends also exceeded the company’s free cash flow, or FCF – an estimate of cash flow after capital expenses, as calculated by S&P – in seven of the last nine years, including a 130-per-cent payout rate in 2023.
By S&P’s count, BCE has generated $25.8-billion of FCF since the end of 2012 and paid $29-billion in common dividends. And debt has nearly doubled since the end of 2013, to $34.4-billion.
This, understandably, isn’t how BCE presents it. The company has its own definition of FCF that has historically excluded an awful lot of things.
Spokesperson Ellen Murphy notes there is no standardized definition of free cash flow in the telecom industry, but says her company’s definition “is the most straight-forward among peers” and aligned to accounting standards. As BCE sees it, its last two payout rates were 111 per cent in 2023 and 108 per cent in 2022, which Ms. Murphy says “is higher than our policy range” because of elevated capital expenditures from “generational investments in our networks.”
Even the BCE bulls – and there are still a few – acknowledge that the decade of dividend growth has pushed the company’s current payout rate to an uncomfortable level. They think this issue is temporary.
But there are now plenty of folks who are deeply skeptical BCE can continue these payouts.
The dean of the doubters is likely Mark Rosen at Accountability Research Corp., who has been questioning BCE’s financial reporting, and health, for nearly a decade. In 2016, I wrote a column noting Mr. Rosen’s issues with how BCE was excluding acquisition costs and voluntary contributions to its employee pension plan from free cash flow. (They are practices that continue to this day.)
It’s fair to say investors brushed off the concerns, allowing the board to continue its dividend rampage. By the time of BCE’s most recent earnings, Mr. Rosen bemoaned “shareholder apathy and inertia regarding BCE’s weak free cash flow outlook.”
Yet he is not a lone voice in the wilderness. Desmond Lau at Veritas Investment Research Inc. and Vince Valentini of TD Securities Inc. have homed in on BCE’s accounting for the leases it uses for its satellites and other heavy equipment.
If BCE were to buy this equipment, the cash it spent would show up in capital expenditures, and hurt any FCF measure. Instead, since it leases them, most of the costs flow through the “cash from financing” portion of the cash-flow statement – appearing nowhere near any calculation of FCF. In 2021 and 2022, BCE reported a “cash outflow related to leases” between $1.2-billion and $1.3-billion; less than $400-million of that appeared in the income statement.
Mr. Lau has been subtracting $800-million from BCE’s FCF number to reflect these leasing costs: For example, BCE’s 2024 guidance for FCF is a range from $2.79-billion to $3.06-billion; Mr. Lau’s math is for FCF of $1.99-billion to $2.26-billion. With dividends assumed to be $3.64-billion, Mr. Lau estimates a 2024 payout ratio of as high as 183 per cent.
Mr. Valentini, of TD, discovered BCE’s lease outflows in September of last year in a financial-statement footnote, cut his rating on the stock and apologized to clients for what he called an “historic oversight.” He said “our new FCF estimates raise serious questions about dividend quality and dividend sustainability.”
And Patrick Horan of Agilith Capital says he’s shorting BCE simply because he doesn’t believe the company can cut back meaningfully on its current levels of capital spending. He says the telco industry is accelerating its technology, spending in order to save their existing subscribers.
“They’re on the treadmill to hell right now,” Mr. Horan said. “They have no choice. This dream of low capital intensity just isn’t around the corner and it’s never going to be.”
BCE’s Ms. Murphy says the company “reports capital lease repayments as a financing activity below free cash flow, which is in-line with accounting standards,” adding that “the disclosure is clear in our financial statements.” She also says “we appreciate that our shareholders want a stable and growing dividend, and we have been delivering consistently on that expectation.”
If the company’s leaders were prudent, they’d accept the new reality and realize a reset is in order. The aristocratic era of BCE dividends is over, because its cash flow makes it a commoner now.
2024.01.31 19:18 NewWestSarah School Board Trustees & Staff Removed of $18,000 of Fundraising Money From NWSS Theatre Program
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2023.12.10 14:47 MommaDYL Student going abroad - considering vacation suspension
Looking for opinions:
Student going abroad (Germany with travel in EU) for ~8 months. Want to retain current phone # and part of family plan with 4 lines.
Plan is to suspend Telus account resulting in $30 per month charge with $15 discount so net cost $15 to keep #.
Get local sim with month to month plan. (~€20/month)
Thoughts? Other recommendations?
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Student going abroad (Germany with travel in EU) for ~8 months. Want to retain current phone # and part of family plan with 4 lines.
Plan is to suspend Telus account resulting in $30 per month charge with $15 discount so net cost $15 to keep #.
Get local sim with month to month plan. (~€20/month)
Thoughts? Other recommendations?
2023.11.27 01:20 Wookie_104 My plan was upgraded without me even upgrading it?
 | Hey people, I found out today that my 150/150(Unlimited) telus plan on PureFibre was upgraded to 750/750. im not even sure if this plan is unlimited, nor do I even know why it was upgraded because I didn't login on there in ages. I wasn't hacked I think since my password is still the same and all but that is very weird. Sorry for my doodles too btw but I really don't know why my plan was upgraded, I didn't get no calls, emails or anything and I wondered if this ever happened to one of yall? submitted by Wookie_104 to telus [link] [comments] is it really unlimited but still has a cap?? and here it still says \"Upgrade to unlimited data\" |
2023.10.31 07:43 AffectionateLettuce6 Family Plans and Jumping Ship to Other Carriers
I’ve been part of my family’s Telus plan for years. My particular plan is $65/month ($80 less $15 discount for family plan) for 20GB of data that is non-shared. My other family members pay around the same amount ($60-$70/month net after the $15/month discount) for shared data but never go over their shared data amount (they share ~20GB between the 3 of them). My device will be paid off in the next couple of weeks and I believe it’s a good time to renegotiate a new plan (black Friday being around the corner).
Do I have a leg to stand on with regards to negotiations if I were to leave my family plan and join onto my girlfriend’s Bell mobility plan? I’ve yet to speak with Bell, but given the BYOD device plans that they offer and the fact that I’d be looking to join an an existing line, which we already are using for our home internet services, I think I should be able to negotiate some good terms with Bell.
Does anybody have any experience/intel? Am I out to lunch trying to get a better plan from one of these major carriers? (Not sure if $65/month for 20GB of shared data is a lot or not these days). I’ve only ever gone over my data a handful of times, so it’s not absolutely necessary to move, but moving to a new plan with bell with my girlfriend where we already share a home internet account also seems like a logical decision.
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Do I have a leg to stand on with regards to negotiations if I were to leave my family plan and join onto my girlfriend’s Bell mobility plan? I’ve yet to speak with Bell, but given the BYOD device plans that they offer and the fact that I’d be looking to join an an existing line, which we already are using for our home internet services, I think I should be able to negotiate some good terms with Bell.
Does anybody have any experience/intel? Am I out to lunch trying to get a better plan from one of these major carriers? (Not sure if $65/month for 20GB of shared data is a lot or not these days). I’ve only ever gone over my data a handful of times, so it’s not absolutely necessary to move, but moving to a new plan with bell with my girlfriend where we already share a home internet account also seems like a logical decision.
2023.10.22 16:20 Green-Alien-Soup Email / domain change scam?
 | I'm not finding any information when I look online, including info from the company mentioned in the screenshot. This post has been copied+pasted word for word to a few local community pages. What's the angle here? It's pretty obvious it's a scam, because the websites they're apparently taking over are either generic, or lead to the city's tourism page, making no sense for it to redirect to an Internet company. submitted by Green-Alien-Soup to Scams [link] [comments] |
2023.07.31 06:43 aTPNY TELUS IS HIRING ♥️
 | 📣 𝙇𝙤𝙤𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙍𝙚𝙜𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙙 𝙉𝙪𝙧𝙨𝙚𝙨 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝘼𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙋𝙍𝘾 𝙇𝙞𝙘𝙚𝙣𝙨𝙚 :) Salary and Qualification are posted below. Company: Telus International Philippines Location: Mckinley West Taguig submitted by aTPNY to BPOinPH [link] [comments] 📣 𝙇𝙤𝙤𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝘼𝙥𝙥𝙡𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙨 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 💸 30𝙆 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜. ᴘʀᴇꜰᴇʀᴀʙʟʟʏ ᴡɪᴛʜ 3 ʏᴇᴀʀꜱ ᴇxᴘᴇʀɪᴇɴᴄᴇ ɪɴ ʙ2ʙ ᴄᴏʟʟᴇᴄᴛɪᴏɴ, ᴀᴄᴄᴏᴜɴᴛ ʀᴇᴄᴇɪᴠᴀʙʟᴇ ʙɪʟʟɪɴɢ ᴇxᴘᴇʀɪᴇɴᴄᴇ. |
2023.07.29 00:45 Blastwing Two guys who just turned legal going to Vegas for the first time
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2023.07.13 14:53 MottoLAX So no Google maps access and also cannot leave Google reviews with a telus.net account?
Is not being able to leave a review a recent change or has it always been that way?
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2023.06.03 19:35 NoReply4930 PureFibre/TV Portal (TELUSTV-21T) Review from new Telus Customer
For those thinking about switching to PureFibre and/or considering the new TelusTV-21T portal - here’s my modest little update from a modest family home perspective here in NW Calgary.
We had our Purefibre "lit up" last weekend and working closely with Josh in here - finally received our TV Portals which I was very excited to get working on.
The Good
The PureFibre is excellent – great connectivity – everything feels solid and reliable. The tech installed a nice bridged ONT for me allowing a seamless transition (for my ASUS router) from our old Shaw Bluecurve to Purefibre - basically plug and play.
TV Portals - installed in our two main rooms. Setup was a snap and I was able to get our standard streaming apps in play quickly.
The Bad
The TV portion of our new package leaves me quite a bit less enthusiastic and I am not sure if it’s simply too early or something else that is rubbing me the wrong way.
Firstly, a key clarification – for any actual streaming apps installed on the TELUSTV-21T (Netflix, Crave, Plex etc) – the sound and audio are virtually identical to the same "smart" apps that were installed natively on our two Samsung TVs. Audio/Video is sharp, room filling and excellent.
However for Live TV - I instantly realized that these new portal boxes are not actually doing any old school A/V processing – rather it’s more like a modern Roku type device running the Android TV OS and what I am really looking at here (for Live TV) is a well-hidden default view of the Telus TV+ app.
In the early going yesterday - I found the standard TV package channels (the 4K channels excepted) to rank anywhere from moderately passable to downright standard def in some cases. Some quick A/B compares with SportsNet and TSN and especially channels that I thought should easily look decent like CTV Calgary (102) for the news yesterday went from sorta sharp to blurry to back again and then washed out again all in a 5-minute span while watching the 6pm news – making this generally annoying.
At times I could literally see the oozing pixelation/channel compression and could almost feel like the network was straining (sorta wheezing) to try to “lock in and focus” the CTV network stream properly as the program went on. It was the same for the Blue Jays/Mets game on the HD Sportsnet West channel. To be fair - the 4K version of this game looked awesome – but sounded like crap – the volume on the 4K channel dropped down by at least 4 or 5 db.
This portal also leaves a LOT to be desired (vs Shaw) on ANY sort of A/V/Performance/Options where you can tweak the presentation to your specific setup. The Telus Portal settings are devoid of almost any key settings and simply acts as passthru for whatever video and audio a specific channel is delivering.
My understanding is that the audio on most (if not all) these channels is supposed to be Dolby Digital (5.1) at least – but pretty much all of them sound like a bad stereo fold down where dialog does not actually come out “focused and centered” on my either of my multichannel speaker systems (JBL BAR 5.1 and Marantz SR5015 AVR) with any real clarity on specific channels (like CNN) where you would expect the dialog to be centered and clear. It’s hard to describe but the Shaw box has this beat on multiple several levels.
I also was dumbfounded when I was asked to associate a “Google” acct with the Portal so I could get access to the Play Store to get some additional streaming apps in play.
Now – one would have thought that the new Google accts that get created when we activated our new Telus.net email accounts would have done the trick but it turns out that these Google accts have been stunted (managed by Telus) and had many normal Google acct features stripped away – like the all important access to the Play Store – so I had to get creative and create a new “real” family Google acct so we could get these things moving forward.
Just another unknown tripwire that could have been better communicated – especially since it feels so obvious that someone (who is not all that familiar with "required" Google acct capability - like me) might just want to - you know - use a new Telus.net Google acct for a “new” Telus install.
The only (slight) upside is that TV viewing ranks a distant second here when compared with streaming. But that might not be enough for me to justify the overall package value.
Now – I know it is very early and this initial feedback seems angular. Perhaps I was expecting too much, got too excited, thought this was a Shaw killer etc etc. Maybe it’s my internal ethernet LAN ports at the TV Portal points (VERY doubtful) or something else mysterious going on but given the apparent build quality of these boxes – AND the PureFibre delivery pipe - my TV experience SHOULD (at least) resemble the quality Telus and Shaw delivered back in the Motorola/DC3200 coax days where the hardware served an actual processing purpose to ensure every channel was sharp, audio was clear, loud and standard and this sort of feedback was non-existent.
While I totally understand that the “app” revolution where we are at – right now this Telus TV+ app is not even close to any semblance of the “old days”.
Final thoughts - given the hype factor of this fibre rollout, the damage/hassle of our yards getting trashed last summer AND the (generally positive) potential for this specific 21-T device - I really was ready for much better and I am now honestly uneasy about this transition considering all of the work, install, hassle factor with Shaw and so on that we went thru to get to this point.
I sent Josh this same feedback this morning - hope to hear his take on my observations - but for anyone else out there who has recently made the switch - are you seeing a variation on the above? Better than the above? Worse than the above?
Any other tips, tricks or intel from the field would be appreciated.
Cheers
NR
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We had our Purefibre "lit up" last weekend and working closely with Josh in here - finally received our TV Portals which I was very excited to get working on.
The Good
The PureFibre is excellent – great connectivity – everything feels solid and reliable. The tech installed a nice bridged ONT for me allowing a seamless transition (for my ASUS router) from our old Shaw Bluecurve to Purefibre - basically plug and play.
TV Portals - installed in our two main rooms. Setup was a snap and I was able to get our standard streaming apps in play quickly.
The Bad
The TV portion of our new package leaves me quite a bit less enthusiastic and I am not sure if it’s simply too early or something else that is rubbing me the wrong way.
Firstly, a key clarification – for any actual streaming apps installed on the TELUSTV-21T (Netflix, Crave, Plex etc) – the sound and audio are virtually identical to the same "smart" apps that were installed natively on our two Samsung TVs. Audio/Video is sharp, room filling and excellent.
However for Live TV - I instantly realized that these new portal boxes are not actually doing any old school A/V processing – rather it’s more like a modern Roku type device running the Android TV OS and what I am really looking at here (for Live TV) is a well-hidden default view of the Telus TV+ app.
In the early going yesterday - I found the standard TV package channels (the 4K channels excepted) to rank anywhere from moderately passable to downright standard def in some cases. Some quick A/B compares with SportsNet and TSN and especially channels that I thought should easily look decent like CTV Calgary (102) for the news yesterday went from sorta sharp to blurry to back again and then washed out again all in a 5-minute span while watching the 6pm news – making this generally annoying.
At times I could literally see the oozing pixelation/channel compression and could almost feel like the network was straining (sorta wheezing) to try to “lock in and focus” the CTV network stream properly as the program went on. It was the same for the Blue Jays/Mets game on the HD Sportsnet West channel. To be fair - the 4K version of this game looked awesome – but sounded like crap – the volume on the 4K channel dropped down by at least 4 or 5 db.
This portal also leaves a LOT to be desired (vs Shaw) on ANY sort of A/V/Performance/Options where you can tweak the presentation to your specific setup. The Telus Portal settings are devoid of almost any key settings and simply acts as passthru for whatever video and audio a specific channel is delivering.
My understanding is that the audio on most (if not all) these channels is supposed to be Dolby Digital (5.1) at least – but pretty much all of them sound like a bad stereo fold down where dialog does not actually come out “focused and centered” on my either of my multichannel speaker systems (JBL BAR 5.1 and Marantz SR5015 AVR) with any real clarity on specific channels (like CNN) where you would expect the dialog to be centered and clear. It’s hard to describe but the Shaw box has this beat on multiple several levels.
I also was dumbfounded when I was asked to associate a “Google” acct with the Portal so I could get access to the Play Store to get some additional streaming apps in play.
Now – one would have thought that the new Google accts that get created when we activated our new Telus.net email accounts would have done the trick but it turns out that these Google accts have been stunted (managed by Telus) and had many normal Google acct features stripped away – like the all important access to the Play Store – so I had to get creative and create a new “real” family Google acct so we could get these things moving forward.
Just another unknown tripwire that could have been better communicated – especially since it feels so obvious that someone (who is not all that familiar with "required" Google acct capability - like me) might just want to - you know - use a new Telus.net Google acct for a “new” Telus install.
The only (slight) upside is that TV viewing ranks a distant second here when compared with streaming. But that might not be enough for me to justify the overall package value.
Now – I know it is very early and this initial feedback seems angular. Perhaps I was expecting too much, got too excited, thought this was a Shaw killer etc etc. Maybe it’s my internal ethernet LAN ports at the TV Portal points (VERY doubtful) or something else mysterious going on but given the apparent build quality of these boxes – AND the PureFibre delivery pipe - my TV experience SHOULD (at least) resemble the quality Telus and Shaw delivered back in the Motorola/DC3200 coax days where the hardware served an actual processing purpose to ensure every channel was sharp, audio was clear, loud and standard and this sort of feedback was non-existent.
While I totally understand that the “app” revolution where we are at – right now this Telus TV+ app is not even close to any semblance of the “old days”.
Final thoughts - given the hype factor of this fibre rollout, the damage/hassle of our yards getting trashed last summer AND the (generally positive) potential for this specific 21-T device - I really was ready for much better and I am now honestly uneasy about this transition considering all of the work, install, hassle factor with Shaw and so on that we went thru to get to this point.
I sent Josh this same feedback this morning - hope to hear his take on my observations - but for anyone else out there who has recently made the switch - are you seeing a variation on the above? Better than the above? Worse than the above?
Any other tips, tricks or intel from the field would be appreciated.
Cheers
NR
2023.05.19 11:51 Mean_Prior1921 Internet download speed
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- Meeting and Events Planner (FULLY Remote) at JPMorgan Chase / Salary: 62,700.00-$102,500.00 USD / Year
- Remote Fin Proc Clerk III – Customer Communications (No Degree/Experience Required) at Maximus / Salary: 18.05 - 23.00 USD / Hour
- Principal Full-Stack Engineer (Fully Remote) at Yahoo / Salary: $143,625.00 - $299,375.00 USD / Year
- Full-Stack Engineer (Fully Remote) at Yahoo / Salary: $88,500.00 - $184,375.00 USD / Year
- Associate Account Manager- Remote at Sharecare
- Internet Ads Evaluator_US – WFH (PT/FT) at TELUS International
- Backend Engineer (Fully Remote) at Yahoo / Salary: $88,500.00 - $184,375.00 USD / Year
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- Remote Customer Support Specialist, Customer Service at Amazon / Salary: 19:00 USD / Hour
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2023.04.03 23:11 effizojob Today's Remote Job Leads
- Meeting and Events Planner (FULLY Remote) at JPMorgan Chase / Salary: 62,700.00-$102,500.00 USD / Year
- Remote Fin Proc Clerk III – Customer Communications (No Degree/Experience Required) at Maximus / Salary: 18.05 - 23.00 USD / Hour
- Principal Full-Stack Engineer (Fully Remote) at Yahoo / Salary: $143,625.00 - $299,375.00 USD / Year
- Full-Stack Engineer (Fully Remote) at Yahoo / Salary: $88,500.00 - $184,375.00 USD / Year
- Associate Account Manager- Remote at Sharecare
- Internet Ads Evaluator_US – WFH (PT/FT) at TELUS International
- Backend Engineer (Fully Remote) at Yahoo / Salary: $88,500.00 - $184,375.00 USD / Year
- Part Time Administrative Review Assistant – Virtual (Remote) at Kepro
- Remote Customer Support Specialist, Customer Service at Amazon / Salary: 19:00 USD / Hour
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2023.04.03 23:11 effizojob Today's Job Leads
- Meeting and Events Planner (FULLY Remote) at JPMorgan Chase / Salary: 62,700.00-$102,500.00 USD / Year
- Remote Fin Proc Clerk III – Customer Communications (No Degree/Experience Required) at Maximus / Salary: 18.05 - 23.00 USD / Hour
- Principal Full-Stack Engineer (Fully Remote) at Yahoo / Salary: $143,625.00 - $299,375.00 USD / Year
- Full-Stack Engineer (Fully Remote) at Yahoo / Salary: $88,500.00 - $184,375.00 USD / Year
- Associate Account Manager- Remote at Sharecare
- Internet Ads Evaluator_US – WFH (PT/FT) at TELUS International
- Backend Engineer (Fully Remote) at Yahoo / Salary: $88,500.00 - $184,375.00 USD / Year
- Part Time Administrative Review Assistant – Virtual (Remote) at Kepro
- Remote Customer Support Specialist, Customer Service at Amazon / Salary: 19:00 USD / Hour
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2023.04.03 23:09 effizojob Today's Remote Job Leads
- Meeting and Events Planner (FULLY Remote) at JPMorgan Chase / Salary: 62,700.00-$102,500.00 USD / Year
- Remote Fin Proc Clerk III – Customer Communications (No Degree/Experience Required) at Maximus / Salary: 18.05 - 23.00 USD / Hour
- Principal Full-Stack Engineer (Fully Remote) at Yahoo / Salary: $143,625.00 - $299,375.00 USD / Year
- Full-Stack Engineer (Fully Remote) at Yahoo / Salary: $88,500.00 - $184,375.00 USD / Year
- Associate Account Manager- Remote at Sharecare
- Internet Ads Evaluator_US – WFH (PT/FT) at TELUS International
- Backend Engineer (Fully Remote) at Yahoo / Salary: $88,500.00 - $184,375.00 USD / Year
- Part Time Administrative Review Assistant – Virtual (Remote) at Kepro
- Remote Customer Support Specialist, Customer Service at Amazon / Salary: 19:00 USD / Hour
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2023.03.20 12:03 remote-enthusiast Collected 100 jobs (tech & non-tech)
- intake Coordinator \)link\) Mindful Health Solutions · Remote in United States non-tech, customer-support
- marketing Coordinator \)link\) Finn Partners · Remote sales-marketing, non-tech, marketing
- copywriter \)link\) Smile Doctors · Remote sales-marketing, non-tech, copywriting
- part Time Virtual Customer Service \)link\) Wayfair · Remote in United States non-tech, customer-support
- sales Agent \)link\) Forward · +1 location sales-marketing, non-tech, sales, remote
- inside Sales Representative \)link\) CentralBDC · Remote sales-marketing, non-tech, sales
- freelance Writer \)link\) ASSURANCE · Remote in United States sales-marketing, non-tech, copywriting, remote
- spanish Medical Interpreter \)link\) AMN Language Services · Remote non-tech, work-from-home
- service Nation- Social Media Specialist \)link\) EverCommerce · Remote in Dallas sales-marketing, non-tech, social-media, remote, us
- associate, Community Philanthropy \)link\) The Trevor Project · Remote sales-marketing, non-tech, marketing
- seasonal Part Time Customer Service Representative - Remote \)link\) Radiant Plumbing and Air Conditioning · Remote in Austin non-tech, customer-support
- junior Developer & Lms Assistant #guwahati #assam \)link\) Interactive Media · Remote engineering
- Proofreader and Document Remediation Specialist \)link\) Lumina Corps · USA non-tech, writing, full-time, section-508-compliance
- senior Account Executive, Saas Sales \)link\) Yelp · Remote sales-marketing, non-tech, sales, remote
- account Specialist, Print & Marketing \)link\) Staples · Remote sales-marketing, non-tech, marketing, remote
- tableau Developer - Fully Remote \)link\) ReminderMedia · Remote in Philadelphia engineering
- social Media Manager \)link\) Backstage · Remote sales-marketing, non-tech, social-media
- Data Scientist \)link\) Expression Networks · USA engineering, data, full-time
- Senior Product Manager \)link\) M-KOPA tech, product-management, user-interface, user-experience, product-design, security, full-time, emea
- digital Media Apprentice \)link\) Catalyte · Remote in Detroit sales-marketing, non-tech, marketing
- guidewire Claimcenter Developer - Remote \)link\) AAA Texas · Remote in Coppell engineering
- Recruitment Consultant \)link\) Your People Partners non-tech, recruiting, full-time, uk
- marketing Coordinator \)link\) Systems & Methods, Inc (SMI) · Remote sales-marketing, non-tech, marketing, remote
- security Programmer Writer \)link\) eXcell · Remote in San Francisco sales-marketing, non-tech, copywriting, open-source
- freelance Content Writer \)link\) ShoutVox · Remote sales-marketing, non-tech, marketing, remote
- customer Service Representative - Move Coordinator - Primarily Remote! \)link\) Nelson Westerberg · Remote in Branchburg non-tech, customer-support
- part Time - Personalize Internet Ads Assessor - English Speaking In Us \)link\) TELUS International AI · Remote sales-marketing, non-tech, marketing
- Technical Support Lead \)link\) Kajabi sales-marketing, tech-support, front-end, javascript, seo, customer-experience, full-time, usa
- copywriter \)link\) Clutch Group, Inc. · Remote sales-marketing, non-tech, copywriting
- learning Experience Designer \)link\) Braze · Remote in Austin design
- sales Executive - Personal Lines \)link\) Assured Partners of Florida · Remote in Florida sales-marketing, non-tech, sales
- Sr. Product Manager \)link\) Appcues tech, product-management, recruiting, full-time, north-america-latin-america
- sales Representative - Remote \)link\) Outsourced Doers · Remote sales-marketing, non-tech, sales
- freelance Indonesian Interpreter \)link\) MultiLingual Solutions Inc · Remote non-tech
- remote Accountant \)link\) Supporting Strategies · Remote in Los Angeles non-tech, accounting
- Bookkeeper \)link\) Web Profits · Australia non-tech, finance-legal, full-time
- sales Designer \)link\) Closet World · Remote in Mill Valley design
- manager, Marketing Content - Remote \)link\) Office Depot · Remote in Boca Raton sales-marketing, non-tech, copywriting
- vp Of Customer Service - Remote Call Center \)link\) ReminderMedia · Remote in Austin sales-marketing, non-tech, sales
- staff Accountant \)link\) Tang Capital Management · Remote in San Diego non-tech, accounting, remote
- instructional Designer I \)link\) Caterpillar · Remote in Illinois design, remote-eligible
- Product Manager \)link\) LiveFurnish · Canada tech, product, full-time
- creative Writing Coach \)link\) Pixical · Remote sales-marketing, non-tech, copywriting
- billing Customer Support Specialist \)link\) Formstack · Remote non-tech, customer-support
- customer Contact Center Representative I \)link\) First Citizens Bank · Remote in Raleigh non-tech, customer-support
- consumer Content Writers \)link\) Codeless, Interactive LLC · Remote sales-marketing, non-tech, copywriting
- freight Brokerage Sales Executive \)link\) Titus Transport Holdings, LLC · Remote in Los Angeles sales-marketing, non-tech, sales
- project Coordinator \)link\) VS Media · Remote in Westlake Village engineering, remote
- manager, Account Management \)link\) Accurate Background · Remote sales-marketing, non-tech, sales
- user Experience Designer Ii \)link\) Home Depot / THD · Remote in Atlanta design, remote
- story Translators \)link\) eGlobal Creative Publishing · Remote non-tech
- accountant \)link\) AdNet AccountNet, Inc. · Remote non-tech, accounting
- teamcenter Developer \)link\) OPUSING STAFFING · Remote engineering
- per Diem Vietnamese Medical Interpreter \)link\) Dana-Farber Cancer Institute · Remote in Boston non-tech
- business Development Representative \)link\) VXI Global Solutions · Remote sales-marketing, non-tech, sales
- freelance Writer For Medical Billing For Small Practices \)link\) Responsify · Remote sales-marketing, non-tech, copywriting
- Agile Project Manager \)link\) Bixal tech, project-management, program-management, risk-management, drupal, scrum-master, full-time, usa
- marketing Copywriter - Client and Member Communications \)link\) Imagine360 · Remote sales-marketing, non-tech, copywriting
- lead Accountant- Remote \)link\) EmblemHealth · Remote in New York non-tech, accounting
- inside Sales Representative \)link\) Natus Medical Incorporated · Remote in Seattle sales-marketing, non-tech, sales
- patient Access Representative Call Center \)link\) University of Washington · Remote in Seattle non-tech, customer-support, remote-downtown-seattle
- etl Developer Remote Contract Role \)link\) Valsatech Corp · Remote engineering
- field Sales Representative Ii \)link\) Arrow Electronics, Inc. · Remote in Parsippany sales-marketing, non-tech, sales
- translation Pm \)link\) SeproTec Multilingual Solutions · Remote in Suring non-tech
- remote Sales Representative \)link\) The Mathews Agency · Remote sales-marketing, non-tech, sales
- script/copywriting Prompt Specialist \)link\) CreatorUp · Remote sales-marketing, non-tech, copywriting
- customer Service Representative \)link\) Convey Health Solutions · Remote in Miramar non-tech, customer-support, south-florida
- copywriter - Digital Platforms \)link\) Deckers Brands · Remote in Goleta sales-marketing, non-tech, copywriting
- sr. Professional, Acquisition Marketing-search \)link\) Under Armour sales-marketing, non-tech, marketing, remote
- hp Regional Sales Manager \)link\) 2020 Companies · Remote in Hayward sales-marketing, non-tech, sales
- regional Sales & Training Specialist \)link\) Image Skincare · Remote sales-marketing, non-tech, sales
- social Media Manager - Remote \)link\) PerkinElmer · Remote in Austin sales-marketing, non-tech, social-media
- proposal Writer \)link\) Cella · Remote sales-marketing, non-tech, copywriting, remote
- marketing Copywriter - Contract \)link\) Devoted Health · Remote sales-marketing, non-tech, copywriting
- interpretation & Translation Coordinator \)link\) TechTrans International · Remote non-tech, contingency-hire
- ui Designer \)link\) Explore Digital · Remote design, graphics-website-ui
- brand Copywriter \)link\) Thinx · Remote in New York sales-marketing, non-tech, copywriting
- application Programmer - Smart Phones \)link\) Computers Unlimited · Remote engineering
- salesforce Software Engineer - Tier 1 \)link\) Formstack · Remote engineering
- customer Service Representative - Luxury Retail \)link\) TTEC · Remote in Georgia non-tech, customer-support
- Recruiter \)link\) ElectroNeek · Worldwide non-tech, human-resources, full-time
- sr. Director Of Risk & Internal Audit \)link\) HealthTrackRX · Remote in United States non-tech, accounting
- product Writer and Reviewer, Wired \)link\) Conde Nast · Remote in New York sales-marketing, non-tech, copywriting
- php Web Developer & Mariadb \)link\) YouHelp.com · Remote engineering
- Application Security Analyst \)link\) Guidepointsecurity · USA engineering, devops-sysadmin, full-time
- Writer \)link\) 11 bit studios sales-marketing, publishing, full-time, emea, the-alters
- copywriter \)link\) Newsela · Remote in Raleigh sales-marketing, non-tech, copywriting
- remote Customer Service Representative - Ca \)link\) Dialog Direct · Remote in Fresno non-tech, customer-support
- Customer Experience Coordinator \)link\) Brave Human Capital Group · UTC, CST (UTC-6) sales-marketing, customer-service, full-time
- web Applications Developer – 100% Remote In Texas \)link\) Health & Human Services Comm · Remote in Austin engineering
- digital Coordinator \)link\) Unified · Remote in New York sales-marketing, non-tech, marketing, remote
- outside Sales Representative/account Manager \)link\) Total Facade Solutions · Remote in San Diego sales-marketing, non-tech, sales
- social Media Assistant \)link\) Everyday Health - Pregnancy & Parenting · Remote sales-marketing, non-tech, social-media
- junior Developer \)link\) Shamrock Solutions LLC · Remote engineering
- marketing Leader Remote \)link\) GE Healthcare · Remote sales-marketing, non-tech, marketing
- e-commerce Manager \)link\) OOLY · Remote sales-marketing, non-tech, marketing
- resume Writer \)link\) Sound Advice · Remote in Denver sales-marketing, non-tech, copywriting
- managesr Manager, Marketing - Practical Nonfiction Books \)link\) Penguin Random House LLC · Remote in New York sales-marketing, non-tech, marketing, open-to-remote
- client Success Manager \)link\) Hinge Health · Remote in United States+1 location sales-marketing, non-tech, sales, remote
- remote Staff Accountant \)link\) LHH Recruitment Solutions · Remote in Portland non-tech, accounting
2023.03.09 05:42 _twisted_macaroni_ Delete your accounts
You add nothing to the Internet. Please Cancel Your Account.
Delete your accounts:
Reddit: https://reddit.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/204579509-How-do-I-deactivate-my-account-
Discord: https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/360004066391-How-Do-I-Disable-My-Account-
Twitter: https://help.twitter.com/en/managing-your-account/how-to-deactivate-twitter-account
Cancel your ISP:
US: Comcast - https://www.xfinity.com/support/articles/cancel-my-xfinity-services
CharteSpectrum - https://www.spectrum.net/support/manage-account/change-or-cancel-service/
Verizon - https://www.verizon.com/support/residential/account/manage-service/cancel
AT&T - https://www.att.com/help/cancellation-policy-internet/
Altice - https://support.alticemobile.com/hc/en-us/articles/360038318873-How-do-I-cancel-my-service
Sparklight - https://support.sparklight.com/hc/en-us/articles/115010179727-How-to-Add-New-Change-or-Cancel-Service-
Century Link - https://www.centurylink.com/home/help/account/how-to-cancel-your-centurylink-service.html
Cox - https://www.cox.com/residential/support/disconnect-or-cancel-service.html
Canada: TELUS - https://www.telus.com/en/bc/support/article/cancel-telus-home-services
Bell - https://support.bell.ca/billing-and-accounts/sales_and_refund_policy/how_do_warranties_and_returns_on_bell_ca_online_orders_work?step=5
Rogers - https://www.rogers.com/customesupport/article/how-to-cancel-your-rogers-service
UK: BT - https://www.bt.com/help/account-and-billing/manage-account/how-to-change-or-cancel-a-bt-phone--tv-or-broadband-package
Virgin - https://www.virginmedia.com/help/virgin-media-how-to-cancel
Sky - https://www.sky.com/help/articles/cancel-sky-broadband
Australia: Telstra - https://www.telstra.com.au/support/category/broadband/manage/how-do-i-cancel-my-home-broadband-service
Optus - https://www.optus.com.au/for-you/support/answer?id=1388
Germany: T - https://telekomhilft.telekom.de/t5/Telefonie-Daten/Contract-cancellation/td-p/1452166
Vodaphone - https://forum.vodafone.de/t5/Archiv-Mein-Vodafone-Mein-Kabel/Cancellation-of-contract-for-internet/m-p/1917832
Sweden: Telia - https://www.telia.se/privat/support/avsluta
Telenor - https://www.telenor.se/kundservice/fast-bredband/annat/avsluta-abonnemang-pa-tv-bredband-eller-hemtelefoni-via-bredband/
Tele2 - https://www.tele2.se/kundservice/betalning/avsluta-abonnemang
Bahnhof - https://www.bahnhof.se/support/category/blanketter-villkouppsagning/1597
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Delete your accounts:
Reddit: https://reddit.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/204579509-How-do-I-deactivate-my-account-
Discord: https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/360004066391-How-Do-I-Disable-My-Account-
Twitter: https://help.twitter.com/en/managing-your-account/how-to-deactivate-twitter-account
Cancel your ISP:
US: Comcast - https://www.xfinity.com/support/articles/cancel-my-xfinity-services
CharteSpectrum - https://www.spectrum.net/support/manage-account/change-or-cancel-service/
Verizon - https://www.verizon.com/support/residential/account/manage-service/cancel
AT&T - https://www.att.com/help/cancellation-policy-internet/
Altice - https://support.alticemobile.com/hc/en-us/articles/360038318873-How-do-I-cancel-my-service
Sparklight - https://support.sparklight.com/hc/en-us/articles/115010179727-How-to-Add-New-Change-or-Cancel-Service-
Century Link - https://www.centurylink.com/home/help/account/how-to-cancel-your-centurylink-service.html
Cox - https://www.cox.com/residential/support/disconnect-or-cancel-service.html
Canada: TELUS - https://www.telus.com/en/bc/support/article/cancel-telus-home-services
Bell - https://support.bell.ca/billing-and-accounts/sales_and_refund_policy/how_do_warranties_and_returns_on_bell_ca_online_orders_work?step=5
Rogers - https://www.rogers.com/customesupport/article/how-to-cancel-your-rogers-service
UK: BT - https://www.bt.com/help/account-and-billing/manage-account/how-to-change-or-cancel-a-bt-phone--tv-or-broadband-package
Virgin - https://www.virginmedia.com/help/virgin-media-how-to-cancel
Sky - https://www.sky.com/help/articles/cancel-sky-broadband
Australia: Telstra - https://www.telstra.com.au/support/category/broadband/manage/how-do-i-cancel-my-home-broadband-service
Optus - https://www.optus.com.au/for-you/support/answer?id=1388
Germany: T - https://telekomhilft.telekom.de/t5/Telefonie-Daten/Contract-cancellation/td-p/1452166
Vodaphone - https://forum.vodafone.de/t5/Archiv-Mein-Vodafone-Mein-Kabel/Cancellation-of-contract-for-internet/m-p/1917832
Sweden: Telia - https://www.telia.se/privat/support/avsluta
Telenor - https://www.telenor.se/kundservice/fast-bredband/annat/avsluta-abonnemang-pa-tv-bredband-eller-hemtelefoni-via-bredband/
Tele2 - https://www.tele2.se/kundservice/betalning/avsluta-abonnemang
Bahnhof - https://www.bahnhof.se/support/category/blanketter-villkouppsagning/1597