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Mister Facetious posted:Holy poo poo that takes me back. I bought Link's Awakening from them.
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I miss my Coextro fibre in a downtown Toronto condo (I moved into a house). Two sub-30 minute outages and one 3 hour outage in 7 years. And it was cheap and fast 
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Dec 15, 2017 13:52
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Was also wondering if there was an issue with magnet links vs. "legit" ones.
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May 2, 2018 16:32
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What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence
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I lived in 21 Carlton over ten years ago fwiw. I think we were the first occupants of someone's investment unit.
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Sep 3, 2019 17:22
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The fibre provider eats the fees for exclusivity and free marketing. I really liked Coextro fwiw at 111 Elizabeth. Affordable, fast, symmetric, unlimited. In five+ years had one three hour block of downtime, and two more that were less than fifteen minutes.
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Sep 3, 2019 17:32
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Beanfield outage at work, sigh. Edit: back after about 45 minutes. Really convenient in the middle of remote leadership meetings and interviews. teethgrinder fucked around with this message at 17:32 on Oct 9, 2019 |
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Oct 9, 2019 17:14
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unknown posted:Beanfield is no longer. Just got bought by Colony Capital (a US based VC firm) for $180mm iirc - same guys who bought Aptum (ex-Cogeco's colo and fiber stuff/ex-peer1). Also about to acquire Zayo.
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Dec 19, 2019 22:29
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Paying for TV
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Oct 14, 2020 03:45
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It feels like it's finally sinking in to non-tech people, to not fall for the undercutting promotions from the big 3.
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Oct 28, 2020 14:03
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Canadian internet access gets shittier https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/rogers-signs-deal-buy-shaw-1.5949825
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Just wanted to reiterate how reprehensible Bell sales are? Had my parents pushing their 80s paying $80/mth for 30 Mbps down and a $20/mth Crave subscription they don't know how to use.
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Jan 12, 2022 15:30
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Less Fat Luke posted:My parents paid that for a 2 megabit connection in the loving boonies, and Crave flat out didn't work at that speed but they weren't allowed to remove it from the bundle. Now they're on Starlink at least, haha.
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Jan 12, 2022 15:58
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My brother just showed me the bills lol. $70 for POTS too. They're Very Concerned about 911 access so can't do VoIP for them, in case of a power failure. But I remember TekSavvy selling me POTS for like $11/mth ages ago. edit: they don't know analogue phones on their site at all these days. There must still be some reseller out there. (I am doing the research.)
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Jan 12, 2022 18:33
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I can live without internet, but 8+ hours without meaningful communication about what is going on is lol. My Freedom phone internet has been decaying all day to where I can barely even send IMs. I'm going outside!!
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Jul 8, 2022 18:45
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Mister Facetious posted:I hope thousands of Canadians are learning a valuable lesson about using smart home products that need to contact an outside server to be useful Meh a lot of them seem designed to work around this. I.e. the connected lights will power on manually if you cycle the power switch. The down side of this is that those lights power on when there's a brief power outage overnight lol.
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Jul 8, 2022 20:49
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Lobok posted:What has been the NDP response? How bad is it that when I search, only a Narcity article comes up? https://www.narcity.com/jagmeet-singh-slams-the-rogers-outage-as-the-feds-lay-out-a-plan-to-prevent-it-happening-again I don't necessarily blame the NDP/Singh for this.
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I thought there was something off with my TekSavvy modem; I had to reboot it once a day for several weeks. I was being a tad lazy about contacting support. And then mysteriously after that Rogers outage, I've never needed to reboot it since.
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Sep 13, 2022 18:30
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For years my Teksavvy-on-Rogers 100/10 has actually been 300/10. Billing error? Not complaining.
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Sep 29, 2022 01:52
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Yeah I'm aware of the burst, but it sustains when torrenting or downloading poo poo on Steam.
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Sep 29, 2022 03:26
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Lol ... I've always gotten ~250 Mbps down on TekSavvy Cable, when I pay for a 100 plan. (Sustained, not burst.) But my upload has been consistently 10.0 Mbps for six years or so. It's magically 30 now 
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Nov 6, 2022 19:33
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zergstain posted:That's been that way for me for several years. I have 75/10, speed test says 204/31.75. The 30 Gb upload is new though. Used to have 100, but dropped down to save money. Speed hardly changed. Also just noticed that their current 100/10 package costs the same as our grandfathered 75/10. I don't know if we should switch since best case scenario the only change is the name of the package. Streamed a game with friends tonight and had zero-latency, essentially confirming my upload is vastly better than it ever has been.
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Nov 7, 2022 04:37
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On Cyber Monday I got my Freedom bill down to $30/mth. I've never paid remotely so little for solid cell service. Not looking forward to any changes
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Shumagorath posted:How did you do that? I’m still on their $50+tax plan and don’t even use half of it. The service in the subway rules pretty hard and I don’t think I could ever switch off. Given the way I quit Rogers for them and how Fizz turned out, I’m not looking forward to either new owner. I don't know if they were running a promo, but my coworker just told me to talk to them. I found that their website wouldn't even let me change plans ... all the options just lead to having to chat with customer support. They asked what I was looking for (their current plans were better than mine for the same price) and just offered me a loyalty discount without prompting. The weirdest thing though is that nothing is lining up when I logged into my profile to check details. It SAYS my plan is 30 GB for $60/mth, but my invoices are clearly $33.90 with tax. Also my usage shows I get 40 GB lol.
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Feb 9, 2023 23:28
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A couple jobs ago we got a C&D because someone on the office network was downloading vampire-themed porn. When I checked logs unfortunately it went cold at something like "android-32732". I assume some weirdo just forgot they had a torrent client running on their phone.
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Apr 5, 2023 20:41
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Not sure if there's a better thread for this, but weirdly NBC started region-blocking Late Night with Seth Meyers on YouTube... but you can still stream it from ctv.ca!  I can't find any information as to why. Like is this a CTV call? Someone on reddit pointed out loving Fallon is still on YouTube and they're both NBC.
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Nov 10, 2023 12:55
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Dumb question...do smart bulbs, switches, etc potentially cause local WiFi issues? Been using a Nest mesh a few years and finding lately we need to reboot it roughly once a week to restore performance. I assumed it was my torrents. When I used to use Linksys/Netgear stuff I'd use custom firmware to aggressively shut down stale connections... but I use bittorrent so rarely these days.
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Jan 29, 2024 19:21
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That's helpful, but I mostly meant, they're all connected to the same mesh, and I'm wondering if they might cause undo stress on local bandwidth/connections or just maybe the consumer grade Nest wifi can't handle 40+ devices. I'll shut my NAS/torrent thingy down completely next and see if that changes anything.
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lol... bulbs add up. But bulbs were easier than switches where two switches (tripole?) control the same circuit. They were cheap (Teckin) and much nicer tweakable warm light vs. what used to be there prior.
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