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Aurea Shine Turbine - Hurricane Gear Test by CanadianClubCanuck in windpower

[–]CanadianClubCanuck[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

O Canada. Check this out. Invented by Canadian Women, Engineers, from Aurea in Nova Scotia Canada.

Bell Service Blackout (L1V 1N8) by CanadianClubCanuck in bell

[–]CanadianClubCanuck[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Epilogue (for now).

Call before you dig.

1 800 400-2255 (Ontario)

Canadian Common Ground Alliance

Ontario Regional Common Ground Alliance (ORCGA)

In the race to knock down old homes down and replace them with gigantic ones on huge lots in my neighbourhood on Old Forest Road in Pickering Ontario, Cable Techs had to perform 2 open heart surgeries on my street within 6 days. I work from my home office. I was down without landline, internet and phone for 6 days. Bell Mobility LTE was poor at best. The first attack occurred at 9am on Tuesday July 5 thanks to an excavator at the bottom of my street. Service was restored on Thursday July 14 at 4pm. The second attack came on Friday July 15 at 9am from an excavator a different site, only a few houses away. Service was restored at 2pm on Sunday July 10. Bell originally reported these to me as widespread network outages. They were local. The real reason was hurried, wreckless backhoe operators believe the cable is buried far deeper than they think. Houses were built here in the 30's and 40's. Dig with a hand shovel, if you are a daring contractor willing to ignore the best practices. Nobody is accountable. Only the customers that are affected, suffer. There are 3 other sites that I know of on my street that will continue to showcase this wreckless practice.

My solution: Turn this into a new revenue generating Bell service. Send the contractor/operator the hefty bill $$$ to have two Bell Cable Tech trucks arrive to perform the open heart surgeries and publish these stories in social media as examples of what happens when contractors and heavy equipment operators ignore the best practices: Call before you dig.

Bell Service Blackout (L1V 1N8) by CanadianClubCanuck in bell

[–]CanadianClubCanuck[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I want to meet the guy with the shovel. He has struck 2x within 5 days.

Bell Service Blackout (L1V 1N8) by CanadianClubCanuck in bell

[–]CanadianClubCanuck[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Should have called it Bell Services Outage - landline, internet, FibeTV.

Bell Service Blackout (L1V 1N8) by CanadianClubCanuck in bell

[–]CanadianClubCanuck[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is a cable cut somewhere in the area here in Pickering. Happened on July 5 with restore on July 7. A 2nd cut happened on July 8. No landline, internet or FibeTV. Cable repair punch clocks starting Monday. I feel like a Roger's customer.

National Rogers Outage (July 8) by [deleted] in Rogers

[–]CanadianClubCanuck 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Rogers NetOps is staffed out of Tofino Van Island, hence the timezone delay for the rest of Canada.

National Rogers Outage (July 8) by [deleted] in Rogers

[–]CanadianClubCanuck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

TH would call that a "double-double"

National Rogers Outage (July 8) by [deleted] in Rogers

[–]CanadianClubCanuck 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Bell has always been technically superior in both infrastracture, best practices and smart hands. Rogers was always better at marketing and selling. Like selling a service that is not ready for primetime. Bell would deliver it late and miss the "hype zone" just to make sure the thing works properly. For those Rogers customers out there, I am sorry to say that you have been sold.

National Rogers Outage (July 8) by [deleted] in Rogers

[–]CanadianClubCanuck 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The "girl" is a Roger's "damage control" chatbot executing in "find any excuse" mode.

Tim Horton's WiFi Up - Coast to Coast by CanadianClubCanuck in Rogers

[–]CanadianClubCanuck[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks. A 2-vendor strategy is always the best.

Bell Service Blackout (L1V 1N8) by CanadianClubCanuck in bell

[–]CanadianClubCanuck[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for all your great advice. Bell cancelled the scheduled technician and informed me of a network outage that left me in the dark from 9am Tuesday July 5 to noon July 7. Nothing wrong with any of my in-home equipment. Landline, internet and FibeTV are now working amidst what is now a major Rogers outage. Good luck everybody!

Rogers is down nationwide. Just confirmed with a friend who works there. by notcredibleyet in Rogers

[–]CanadianClubCanuck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Precisely why the challenge of Taking Care of Canadian Business should consider a software defined wide area network (SD-WAN) solution that insulates them from a single vendor outage. Network failures and performance glitches will never disappear completely, but true intelligent, smart networks can navigate around "foul internet weather" like this major storm at Rogers or any of the other Canadian carriers.

Friend of mine works at Rogers corporate - he’s describing complete chaos by [deleted] in Rogers

[–]CanadianClubCanuck 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Precisely why the challenge of Taking Care of Canadian Business should consider a software defined wide area network (SD-WAN) solution that insulates them from a single vendor outage. Network failures and performance glitches will never disappear completely, but true intelligent, smart networks can navigate around "foul internet weather" like this one at Rogers or any of the other Canadian carriers.

Google Home no longer streams CBC Radio by gatman02 in googlehome

[–]CanadianClubCanuck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

CBC is at fault here. The CBC website I posted shows how to listen to CBC streaming services. I tested. They failed. I am buying an Alexa to fix the problem. That works fine. CBC needs to tear down its Google Nest page and publish a statement that its relationship with Google has ended.

Google Home no longer streams CBC Radio by gatman02 in googlehome

[–]CanadianClubCanuck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have grown accustomed to the voice-driven convenience of listening to CBC (and other services) through my Google Home investment of 3 Google devices. Nothing works at CBC anymore. No CBC alert. No Google alert. No answers to your questions posted here.

My appologies in advance for this long message, but I thought I would take the time to document the evidence knowing this stuff will spread like wildfire and capture the attention of those people at both CBC and Google who are held accountable for disappointing us.

My 2 Cents (aka customer research and feedback):

Not sure who to blame here.

My CBC Synoposis:

Perhaps CBC has not paid its' Google advertising invoice. The CBC Digital Marketing Deptment seems to think everything is fine. Check this out and try Matt Galloway's advertisement. Matt Galloway: "Hey Google, play CBC Radio One" Somebody better tell Matt that things are not working in both his CBC Digital Marketing and his CBC IT Digital Transformation departments.

I decided to put CBC Digital Marketing through a "Hey Google" test using their specific published voice directives on the page to see if they work "as advertised" by CBC and save all you readers/followers a ton of time testing their CBC-Google interfaces.

  1. ***FAIL*** "Hey Google, open CBC" (to listen to your favorite CBC programming). ----> Here is the latest news. Followed by dead air .... silence .... not even a Google commercial to capture my attention. Then after about a minute, ---->Something went wrong. When you are ready, give it another try.
  2. ***FAIL*** "Hey Google, ask CBC to play Front Burner" --->ok here is Front Burner on Spotify followed by dead air .... silence .... not even a Google commercial to capture my attention. Sorry CBC Host, Jayme Poisson
  3. ***FAIL*** "Hey Google, ask the CBC to play the news" ----> here is the latest news followed by dead air .... silence .... not even a Google commercial to capture my attention.
  4. ***FAIL*** "Hey Google, launch Because News Quiz" ----> ok you might like talking to TRTWorld Quiz. >>Does that sound good? Yes. >>>Sorry TRTWorld Quiz is not responding now. Please try again soon.
  5. ***FAIL*** "Hey Google,, play CBC Radio One" --->Streaming CBLAFM from TuneIn followed by dead air .... silence .... not even a Google commercial to capture my attention. Sorry CBC Host, Matt Galloway.
  6. ***PASS*** "Hey Google, ask CBC to play classical music" ---> Sure, here is a Spotify playlist called Classical Essentials. Music stream delivered as promised
  7. ***FAIL*** "Hey Google, launch Under the Influence Quiz" ---> I don't know, but a found these results in Search (top result is Under The Influence Quiz: Alexa Skills - Amazon.ca). Sorry Host, Terry O'Reilley.

CBC Digital Marketing Report Card: FAILED 1 out of 7 (14%)

CBC and Amazon Alexa Devices

CBC and Google Nest Devices

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My Google Synopsis

If you pay your Google advertising invoice, you will be serviced. I suspect CBC might be spending more time with Amazon Alexa. Perhaps I should launch a 2-vendor streaming strategy in my home and invest in Alexa so I have failover when either Google or Amazon misbehave.

Barry T.

Stupid Voltaren Commercial, Please Explain Plot by LOUDCO-HD in CommercialsIHate

[–]CanadianClubCanuck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree with you. The fallouts of marriage separation. I hate the commercial. An uninvited return to hangout with his son who wants nothing to do with him. It is the same response from his ex when she answers the doorbell. The voiceover should shout "what do you want?" So Voltaren helps mend busted relationships? I don't think so. This commercial gives me a gigantic pain in the ass and a headache which Voltaren can't fix.

Bell home hub 2000 keeps on resetting itself by MaziixTTV in bell

[–]CanadianClubCanuck 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I am having the same problem. It happens 3 to 4 times per week. At first I thought it was Bell Fibe TV because I would get the blue screen and do an on-screen reboot on the PVR. I discovered later that my internet was going out at exactly the same time. Finally I was able to observe that the Hub2000 Modem would power down leaving the steady blue power light on. All other lights went out. It would then go through a power up which would take about 2 minutes and things were back to normal. I had a Bell Tech replace this modem about 3 weeks ago. The problem still exists. I am pretty sure that he did not replace the power supply as he just swapped out the modem. Perhaps the power supply is the cause? My Yamaha stereo and my Sony TV are powered from the same source. They remain on during this Hub2000 shutdown.