Did you know Telus DSL and Apple Computers don't mix

Neither did I, until a few weeks ago, while talking to the local Telus technician and complaining about my sub-1 mbps internet speeds. I'm in Tumbler Ridge, where we're supposed to get up to 15 mbps down and 1 up (still a fraction of the 50/10 considered acceptable by the CRTC). "Oh, yeah," he said. "I bet you have Apple devices."

Well, yeah, I do. And it's bad enough that I live too far away from the Telus hub to get the higher high speed, but I get penalized for having Apple products.

Fibre, he said, works fine, but copperline, for some reason, just bogs down.

Great.

So I upgraded to the Wireless Hub, which gets me ... well, about 20 mbps down and still 1 up. At least that's better. Still not 50/10, but better.