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

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by CowsLookLikeMaps@lemmy.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca

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[-] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour 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.

[-] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 2 points 14 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.

[-] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 hour ago

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

[-] roserose56@lemmy.ca 2 points 16 hours ago

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

[-] zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 13 hours ago

.... They're the same network?

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

Same company even. Bell owns Virgin in Canada.

[-] roserose56@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago

Exactly! It's a game for two in Canada, Bell and Rogers own almost all Isp`s.

[-] ag10n@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day 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 23 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 23 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 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 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 1 day ago

They need to get on Mastodon and/or Bluesky.

[-] Freshparsnip@lemm.ee 1 points 16 hours ago

Mine has been down since Friday night

[-] nik282000@lemmy.ca 1 points 17 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.

[-] fastfinge@rblind.com -1 points 1 day 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?