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I can only hope that these stories are true and that Rogers crawls back under a rock where they belong. Fortune article is here. National Post article here. All started from this blog post here. Source: Mark Evan’s Blog.

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Michael Geist has the full blog post here: If true, this form of network interference – implemented with virtually no transparency and now affecting basic Internet services such as email – demonstrates why a dedicated consumer complaints commission is a good start, but a place to complain is not enough.  The solution lies in creating […]

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From Tyler Hamilton: Rogers Wireless's announcement today that it would roll out Wi-Fi hotspots in Second Cup coffee shops across the country could have been a TSN turning point for the market. Instead, it was a boring replay of past — and unsuccessful — announcements by other companies as far as two years back. This […]

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Tyler Hamilton inteviews Dermot O'Carroll, senior vice-president of network engineering and operations at Rogers Cable as stated in his blog here. The actual article is published in the Star here. I'd like Dermot to explain how Rogers can make claims as stated in the article: “Rogers is promising eight hours worth of back-up power in case […]

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As predicted in this post the dam has broken and the connection was totally fried for a period today. Serious degredation in cable TV reception in the last 2 weeks as well. Was down for an hour only today but this is likely a sign of more downage coming up.

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According to this article, Google is looking for a job candidate that include the following duties: “Identification, selection, and negotiation of dark fiber contracts both in metropolitan areas and over long distances as part of development of a global backbone network; contracts and negotiation for managed metropolitan services and long haul wavelength services to fulfill […]

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Looks like Adam is having the time of his life with getting Internet connectivity at his new place. I know how he feels. I went through the same thing here with Rogers and FCI Broadband (used to be called Futureway) when I first moved in. I've written about these idiots before here. I would have […]

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Well, its time for a Rogers Internet update. Seems since my last entry (back in September) things have been working pretty smoothly with the new modem. No major outages or problems since. However, I've noticed some degradation in the past week or so and I am concerned that this is going to lead to another year […]

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Well, I haven't posted much to this category because it would require a full time job of updating. Plus, basically the connection has been horrible all summer so there wasn't much new to say until recently. Except that last week another technician came out to check things and after determing that the signal was OK […]

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Well, it seems like they must have reset something yesterday at approx. 4:15pm. Totally flatlined at that point until I reset the modem at 4:45. Been pretty good since then but again not normal but useable. Still 2% packet loss over the last 3 hours. I suspect they haven't really resolved this just yet (probably never […]

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