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PowerBoost™ is a great feature from Shaw that allows you a 5 to 20 second burst of downloading speed by temporarily increasing your available bandwidth. Now you can download music, pictures, videos and small software updates even faster with Shaw’s PowerBoost. |
PowerBoost also improves the page-loading process, so when you visit a media-intensive Web site the page opens faster, saving you even more time.
Below is a comparison of Shaw High-Speed and Shaw
Extreme average download speeds* with and without PowerBoost.
| File Size |
Shaw High-Speed |
Shaw High-Speed
with PowerBoost |
| 5 MB |
5.6 seconds |
1.6 seconds |
| 10 MB |
11.2 seconds |
3.2 seconds |
| 15 MB |
16.8 seconds |
4.8 seconds |
| 100 MB |
1.9 minutes |
32 seconds |
| 500 MB |
9.4 minutes |
9.1 minutes |
| File Size |
Shaw Extreme |
Shaw Extreme
with PowerBoost |
| 5 MB |
2.8 seconds |
1.6 seconds |
| 10 MB |
5.6 seconds |
3.2 seconds |
| 15 MB |
8.4 seconds |
4.8 seconds |
| 100 MB |
56 seconds |
32 seconds |
| 500 MB |
4.7 minutes |
4.5 minutes |
PowerBoost is included with Shaw High-Speed Internet and Shaw High-Speed Extreme service.
Due to provisioned speeds PowerBoost is only available with Shaw’s High-Speed and High-Speed Extreme Internet plans. PowerBoost provides bursts of download speed of up to 5 Mbps above the customer’s provisioned download speed for the first 10 MB of a file. It then reverts to your provisioned speed for the remainder of the download.
*Many factors affect download speeds and actual speeds may vary and are not guaranteed. 
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