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No changes up north. Unsurprising, but I hope eventually we'll see some better value.
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Amazon is the only place I can get free shipping so, sorry NCIX.  In Canadian Internet news, the monopoly up here is getting $50M from the feds to make Nunavut's access a little less lovely. http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/stories/article/65674northwestel_gets_50_million_from_ottawa_to_improve_nunavut_internet/
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Oct 26, 2017 03:04
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Lately I've been trading video games back and forth with a friend using an external drive because they just keep getting bigger and bigger. It feels like I'm in high school again! Except now I'm paying for the games.
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Oct 26, 2017 03:32
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Now I feel all wistful. I used to get all my computer poo poo from NCIX. Then I stopped building a system every two years. Not entirely sure if it was caused by me having kids or game requirements increasing less than they used to. Maybe a mix. odiv fucked around with this message at 21:51 on Nov 16, 2017 |
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Nov 16, 2017 21:21
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NCIX is still sending out email newsletters full of deals, so that seems weird.
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Nov 23, 2017 18:10
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Slightly offtopic, but with NCIX (long) gone where is everyone buying their components from? I've been putting off a video card for way too long.
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May 29, 2019 03:06
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Cool thanks everyone. Now to bite the bullet on something. :/
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May 30, 2019 18:31
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The fibre line south must have been cut or damaged early this morning. For about 12 hours today we had barely any internet connectivity or long distance phone calls. Most businesses were cash only all day. For the amount we're paying, you'd think we'd have a slightly better connection, but then again that's a lot of line to make it redundant. What else can you do? Satellite backup?
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Jul 14, 2019 05:18
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Yeah everything including cell is through that. When it's down we go back to what I think is the old pre-fibre "line" which includes microwave. Oh well gives me an excuse to get some poo poo done outside. Also, another thing to point to when providers are trying to get us to put all our data in "the cloud".
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Jul 14, 2019 05:37
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Fibre was loving cut again today, outage lasting almost the entire workday. They figure vandalism again. I probably wouldn't get anywhere asking Virgin Mobile for a credit, but almost no internet connectivity for two days in a month is a bit ridiculous, and there's no loving way the local phone company is going to be giving out rebates.
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Aug 13, 2019 02:43
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So everyone's ISP is going to suspending overage charges while we're all working from home and self-quaran-- Ahahhaha. 
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Mar 12, 2020 21:33
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I was joking, but the US seems to be going this way, so maybe there's hope? AT&T Suspends Broadband Data Caps During Coronavirus Crisis https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/v74qzb/atandt-suspends-broadband-usage-caps-during-coronavirus-crisis Then again, up here our monopoly is usually exempt from a bunch of other rules the rest of Canada has because business is so hard.
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Mar 12, 2020 23:48
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Dear penthouse, I never thought this would happen to me... https://cabinradio.ca/32148/news/economy/northwestel-asks-crtc-for-permission-to-waive-your-overage-fees/ quote:Northwestel, the internet provider to most northern residents, says it has asked the federal regulator for permission to temporarily waive customers' overage fees.
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Mar 16, 2020 18:07
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I hope at least 50% of the bits they plan on sending are Canadian!
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Jun 19, 2020 23:14
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What does having electricity have to do with it? There are diesel generators that serve communities well out of the way of a strung wire. Not that I'm in favour of the space pollution though.
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Jul 23, 2020 18:24
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Yeah, we're in agreement about sensible options. I just figured a lot of the idea behind this whole thing was to cover the "special cases".
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Jul 23, 2020 18:32
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Looks like just an extra comma. https://www.rogers.com/cms/images/en/Access_Services_Tariff.pdf
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Woo, CRTC mandated unlimited options are finally being offered* here thanks to millions of dollars the local monopoly has managed to get out of them. Now to take a big sip of coffee and check what it would cost me to get one of those plans.quote:At 50 Mbps download speeds, the existing Internet 50 package – with 300 GB monthly data cap – costs $110.95 per month. That will go up to $160.95 per month with unlimited data (and upload speeds will increase from four Mbps to 10 Mbps.) https://cabinradio.ca/47190/news/northwestel-reveals-prices-of-unlimited-data-plans/ * - If approved by the CRTC. Hopefully they weigh in and say, "C'mon, no." but I'm not holding my breath. We all had unlimited for 3 months earlier this year because of the pandemic and I don't think anything broke. Take your millions and just don't charge me any more money please (I know that isn't how this works).
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Oct 15, 2020 16:15
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Didn't he work for NCIX or was that a different Linus?
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Feb 26, 2021 15:34
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It should be illegal to sell computers without an SSD. Answered a Statistics Canada survey recently about Internet access in the North. Sadly they didn't ask about pricing, just speed and availability, which has been adequate.
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Jan 18, 2022 17:56
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One of the questions was to give them an estimate of what % of my shopping is online. I asked for clarification. Is it instances of shopping? Or % of dollars spent? The guy didn't have an answer for me. edit: we don't even have a cartel where I am. Woo, enforced monopoly.
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Jan 18, 2022 22:18
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I usually buy from Best Buy or Amazon because almost nowhere else gives me free shipping.
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Jan 31, 2022 00:45
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Where do you all get your Raspberry Pis from in Canada? Just "whoever has stock"?
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Feb 10, 2022 17:45
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I do, I wireguard in to my work PC. wait what?
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Apr 5, 2023 17:16
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Fixed about five and a half hours later. With the length of the line down south and all the wildfire this year, I'm surprised it didn't go down for that reason at any time. Two coworkers recently got Starlink for backup. You add in that my internet doesn't work when there's a power outage, and I'm starting to think I should have bought the dish when it was way cheaper. Most importantly though, I should have some cash around at home just in case I need to buy food during an outage. My bank won't even make a call and give me some money. I should also finally set plex up to work without internet access too. Not being able to watch any of my local media was stupid.
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Nov 11, 2023 16:33
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God drat piece of poo poo ISP. I was detangling some wiring and disconnected my modem's power about 7 hours ago for two seconds. I haven't been able to connect back up to the internet since. They want to send a tech out on Thursday.
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Jan 29, 2024 02:45
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Coax. I think either the modem is poo poo or the infrastructure around here. Or both. Even when everything is "fine" I keep getting random disconnections for 5-20 minutes every couple of days. On the webpage that the modem serves up there will usually be "critical" alerts that line up with those times. I should have copied them down when I could resolve the page, probably. I had a ~20 hour outage last week that "fixed itself" so who the hell knows what's going on. But yeah, connection was working, I unplugged it and plugged it into a different outlet and it just refuses to connect again. Maybe I just had a tenuous connection and now it just can't get it back. I even put it back to the first outlet, just in case there was something weird, power-wise, but no dice. I'm going to see if they can swap out my modem if I bring it in tomorrow because Thursday is a bit too long.
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Northwestel. When everything is working I can go to 192.168.100.1 and see information on the modem, but not when it's doing this. You'd think it would still be reachable locally, but idk how this stuff works. The long outage last week on the phone they said it was definitely my issue, neighbours were fine etc, then when the tech called (30 mins after the appointment window, though I had internet again by that point) he said there had been a known outage in my area. So it doesn't sound like the different parts of the company are good at talking to each other. I am strongly considering Starlink, though mounting a dish and getting a cable into the house doesnt seem like a good time. Nitr0 posted:Rogers will have historical levels on hand that the tsr would have used to dispatch a tech. It’s just very weird that rebooting a modem would cause no link. I’ve never heard of that before. Yeah, me neither. I am alternating between kicking myself for touching it because everything was working to saying that it was just a very weird coincidence and cutting power shouldn't caused this. Its a "Hitron CODA-45" for whatever that's worth. When I get some type of resolution I'll report back so we can all have closure. (or I'll just move on to Starlink). odiv fucked around with this message at 07:05 on Jan 29, 2024 |
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Jan 29, 2024 06:59
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Right now I'm paying $150/mo for 100Mbps down and 12.5Mbps up. Which is $10 more than Starlink, but I'd have to pay around $300 for the hardware so that's quite a few months before I "break even".
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Nitr0 posted:Oof. If it was me I would get them to fix your poo poo, then tell them to cut the bill to $90/mo permanently or you're switching. I know a couple of people on Starlink already, I'll see if I can get them to run a speed test for me. Also just picked up a new modem so we'll see if I have any luck with that.
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odiv posted:Also just picked up a new modem so we'll see if I have any luck with that.
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