Anyone using shaw?
Mar 5, 2002 | 9:56 pm
#1
Original Poster
Company Representative - Air Canada
Join Date: May 1999
Location: Canada
Posts: 24,224
Anyone using shaw?
Off topic but best place to ask it here.
Anyone else using shaw.ca email and have a problem receiving emails? I haven't been able to receive anything since this afternoon!! Sending is fine.
Anyone else using shaw.ca email and have a problem receiving emails? I haven't been able to receive anything since this afternoon!! Sending is fine.
Mar 5, 2002 | 10:08 pm
#2
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: AA-Gold, UA-100K/UGS, SPGPlatinum
Posts: 148
Sorry, Empress. I (we?) bailed out of Shaw when they started screwing us over for cable and internet access. We went to satellite and ADSL (Telus).
Knocked as much as $40 a month off our monthly bills....
But if it's any comfort, I've heard that Shaw has had oodles of problems with their email in the last couple of months since they were forced out of the Excite (@Home) system/program/whatever you want to call it.
Knocked as much as $40 a month off our monthly bills....
But if it's any comfort, I've heard that Shaw has had oodles of problems with their email in the last couple of months since they were forced out of the Excite (@Home) system/program/whatever you want to call it.
Mar 6, 2002 | 1:02 am
#4
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Company Representative - Air Canada
Join Date: May 1999
Location: Canada
Posts: 24,224
Still not working... called them and they gave me some stupid reasons. All they did was told me to fire up Outlook and check that I had the right servers.
I just sent a couple of test emails from my Yahoo account to shaw and it's not showing up. Outlook & webmail is acting normally as if there are no new emails. (???)
I just sent a couple of test emails from my Yahoo account to shaw and it's not showing up. Outlook & webmail is acting normally as if there are no new emails. (???)
Mar 6, 2002 | 6:25 am
#7
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: here and there...
Posts: 4,360
Empress, I had an e-mail sent to a Shaw account that was returned to me. It says that it will continue to try to send it for two days. Do you know if it provides confirmation that the e-mail was actually sent?
Mar 6, 2002 | 8:21 am
#9
Join Date: May 1999
Location: Ottawa
Posts: 8,573
makin' miles, usually in cases like that you don't get confirmation when the message is sent. It isn't specific to shaw, and it's usually five days. Typically it says something like "will continue trying for five days". After the five days you'll get another message if it wasn't deliverable.
andrew
andrew
Mar 7, 2002 | 4:59 pm
#12
Join Date: Mar 2000
Posts: 874
We gave up on Shaw in 1997 when Telus began the multimedia trial. Digital cable at half Shaw for poor analogue cable. Then came high speed Internet. 3-4 times faster than Shaw Wave, with proxy/Nat included.
They abandoned the trial, so we moved to ADSL and satellite. Like opencdnskies, our bill was much lower for better quality services. Never had a significant problem, and speed is consistently better than cable ISP's.
They abandoned the trial, so we moved to ADSL and satellite. Like opencdnskies, our bill was much lower for better quality services. Never had a significant problem, and speed is consistently better than cable ISP's.