Bell users experience widespread outage across Central and Atlantic Canada (www.cbc.ca)

submitted 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) by CowsLookLikeMaps@lemmy.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca

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[-] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 hours ago

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.

[-] roserose56@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 hours ago

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

[-] zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 8 hours ago

.... They're the same network?

[-] dankm@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 hours ago

Same company even. Bell owns Virgin in Canada.

[-] Freshparsnip@lemm.ee 1 points 11 hours ago

Mine has been down since Friday night

[-] nik282000@lemmy.ca 1 points 12 hours 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.

[-] ag10n@lemmy.world 12 points 21 hours ago

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 18 hours ago

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 8 points 18 hours ago

This page was consistently green this morning

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

Zero fucks from Bell

[-] considerealization@lemmy.ca 4 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours 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 5 points 20 hours ago

They need to get on Mastodon and/or Bluesky.

[-] fastfinge@rblind.com -1 points 19 hours ago

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?