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[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

But a couple of years ago people were saying this kind of outage only ever happens on Rogers.

It's almost like these networks are getting to big and complex for the amount of well trained, well experienced staff have to maintain the system.

[–] ag10n@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Ah yes, see our Twitter feed that no longer shows current posts even if you are logged in for updates.

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How hard can it be for a network company to run a static website with a status page on it.

Even per postal code level data could be provided by one computer and updated in seconds.

[–] ag10n@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

This page was consistently green this morning

https://supportinternet.bell.ca/network-status.php

Zero fucks from Bell

[–] considerealization@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This fact has me considering dropping bell more than the outage itself.

It is totally indefensible for a telecom company to rely on X, steaming pile of inaccessible garbage that it is, for critical communications.

[–] CowsLookLikeMaps@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago

They need to get on Mastodon and/or Bluesky.

[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I didn't have internet for a couple hours today using videotron.

My MiL sent me a text asking me if we had a power outage. She probably conflated the news of country wide internet outage with hydro.

[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

"Hydro? No, our taps are still running fine!"

[–] roserose56@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

Bell > Virgin
Thats why I didn't have internet today!

[–] Freshparsnip@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

Mine has been down since Friday night

[–] nik282000@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

Only noticed because a place I support stopped responding to pings and I got a message. Thanks again bell for having lower standards than a hobby admin.

[–] fastfinge@rblind.com -1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It never went down here in Ottawa for me. Based on the tiny sample size of my circle of friends, everyone using the gigahub for PPPOE login went down, and everyone using PPPOE passthrough did not. So I think it's something to do with the ISP provided router. Pushed bad firmware to everyone maybe?

[–] ag10n@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

I had a few people using Ebox get affected by this. Hard to say if they don’t own the CPE.