When I moved into my condo in Vancouver, the only fibre internet provider for the building was Telus. However, earlier this year, Novus installed their infrastructure in the building. And last month, I made the switch from Telus to Novus. Novus is a Vancouver-based company that started providing fibre internet to condo buildings primarily in the downtown core, but over the years they have slowly expanded outside the peninsula to cover many more condo buildings throughout Metro Vancouver. I was paying $70/month for Telus’s 1Gbps fibre internet service, but Novus’s offer was $50/month. Even though I had 8 months left Continue Reading
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Setting up IPv6 with Telus PureFibre on a Ubiquiti UniFi Dream Machine
I recently got a Ubiquiti UniFi Dream Machine (UDM) to support gigabit-speed internet at my new apartment. The UniFi line is a significant step up from consumer home routers, providing better customizability and management options for networks. The following settings are required to get IPv6 working locally using Telus PureFibre internet: In the Network application, go to Settings -> Internet -> WAN. Expand the Advanced section, then expand the IPv6 Connection subsection. Set the following settings: IPv6 Connection: DHCPv6 Prefix Delegation Size: 56 Apply the changes at the bottom. Then go to the Networks section and open your LAN network. Continue Reading
Wi-Fi everywhere!
Over the past year, more and more ShawOpen Wi-Fi hotspots have been popping up everywhere around Metro Vancouver. This is incredibly useful for Shaw customers (like me) because it’s so easy to find reliable Wi-Fi access anywhere we go. If you’re a Shaw internet customer, you get to save several devices so that they can automatically connect to the network without having to login through the portal. Telus is starting to form their own network as well, under the names #TELUS and #TELUSDirect. The one advantage they have is that for Telus customers, #TELUSDirect is a secured Wi-Fi network, whereas Continue Reading
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On UBC campus wireless internet… 🙂
VeriSign Increases Domain Prices… Again
According to this article at Domain Name Wire, VeriSign is increasing its domain name prices yet again. VeriSign is the registry operator for the .net and .com top-level domains, and basically is free to raise the price each year its contract is still valid.