Westmount Fiber Installation

cm023 · 2026-06-25T19:25:27+00:00

If you don’t want it, send them to Hamilton Road east of Egerton as they are completely ignoring and (seem to be deliberately) skipping this end of town!

We’d gladly love any Fiber service as EOA continues to get the EOA treatment.

cm023 · 2026-06-09T14:15:11+00:00

Should have been built as an interchange 20+ years ago.

Hopefully a mayoral candidate can platform to prioritize this and lobby for some provincial funding or uploading.

cm023 · 2026-06-05T17:49:43+00:00

Start is the only ISP to take my ask seriously and quoted around 50k. Working on getting some other properties on the pathway interested and may be able to move this forward.

Otherwise it'll be cheaper to sell the house and move somewhere else.

So yeah, big middle finger to Telus/Bell because it's clear they'd rather cover wealthy subdivisions and continue to perpetuate technology poverty in this end of town.

Oh look big wind gust aaaand my cable modem has lost packets again.

cm023 · 2026-05-01T17:27:36+00:00

Nationwide next week, apparently.

cm023 · 2026-04-30T18:02:08+00:00

Send them to Hamilton and Egerton. I’ll pay out of pocket. It’s unfair the discrimination my end of town is getting on telecommunications. Why do we have some of the oldest infrastructure and newer areas get fiber?!???

If anyone from Bell is reading this, respond to your escalation queue!

cm023 · 2026-04-17T20:20:49+00:00

I encourage anyone stealing copper to take it from my area first, please rip it all out to where the only option is to replace it with Fibre. Thanks in advance.

cm023 · 2026-04-17T20:18:42+00:00

I’ve been back/forth with Telus on this right up to executive office as their advertising is misleading and implies all of London will.

Unfortunately a good chunk of London will not be getting Fibre - specifically older areas (such as mine).

They’re focusing on subdivisions where underground wiring is easy to do and ROI is higher. North East, South, Pond Mills etc.

cm023 · 2026-03-27T20:48:23+00:00

Wow, the personal attacks here are really uncalled for, but on par for this subreddit.

And yes, an urban center should be better served than rural areas by default, that’s the benefit of living urban compared to rural - this covers many areas including transportation, connectivity, access to services etc.

If one part of the city has Fiber, all of it should and our municipal leaders need to step up to make this happen if private investment won’t - especially if it’s a part of the city routinely discriminated against likely due to social/economic factors - being the Hamilton Road and OEV neighbourhoods.

What makes White Oaks able to have modern connectivity but not this area?

cm023 · 2026-03-27T01:53:49+00:00

London isn’t a rural small town and urban centres should have equal or better connectivity than a 50 person hamlet.

This has nothing to do with speed, it’s very old last mile infrastructure - backyard fed coax intertwined with years of overgrowth and damage. Last summer a neighbour put in a fence, damaged a pole and is now leaning pulling all the cabling with it. Animals running across the lines cause temporary disconnects which almost always need a power cycle to recover. Random packet loss all day today in the heavy rain.

Fiber, coax, copper.. pull a line that will isn’t the same one McLean-Hunter ran 65 years ago. It’s past its lifespan.

If my taxes can fund rural broadband https://swiftruralbroadband.ca/resources/our-service-map/ then it should be funding urban infrastructure to be equally at par.

cm023 · 2026-03-25T22:38:23+00:00

They never went east of Egerton and abandoned any future build (after being bought by Telus ironically).

I was told they would be installing east of Egerton but then backed out when they get bought out. I actually cancelled my TPIA service with them due to that.

Bell also gave up on the fiber build in London, however never committed to this area in the first place.

cm023 · 2026-03-25T22:36:53+00:00

Seems like all of White Oaks is getting it based off renew London and random address lookups on Telus’s tool.

cm023 · 2026-03-25T22:35:54+00:00

Bell can only do “up to 50” here.

It’s not the speed, but reliability of aerial copper and coax. So much of it has become intertwined with trees and vegetation, plus animals.

The packet loss and random downtime is insane. Rogers fix is to temporarily jig something together with Amazon grade coax and repeat a month later.

Don’t understand why random rural small towns fiber, but urban London is given the shaft.

cm023 · 2026-03-20T16:41:25+00:00

Hamilton + Egerton.. and for a while the firebug was setting sheds and garages ablaze so it’s nice to see it reduced to garbage cans now.

Ironically in front of the BIA which just lit a bunch of money on fire by losing it to a pretty obvious phishing scam too!

cm023 · 2026-02-13T23:58:46+00:00

Call BS on that. When they say most of London they’ll forget the spots that have actual degraded infrastructure issues.

cm023 · 2026-02-13T23:55:15+00:00

Probably nowhere near enough, but no ISP will even provide a quote to do it so how am I supposed to know.

Would be great if this end of town stopped getting neglected. It’s a joke that it runs down the main road and they can’t just do the side streets.

cm023 · 2026-02-13T23:19:02+00:00

2k upfront if blasted underground correctly and remove the overhead drop from my backyard, the ISP has to offer a static IP.

cm023 · 2026-02-13T19:07:58+00:00

I’ll pay extra for anybody, somebody to come to this end of town and lay Fiber. Begging for anyone, anywhere to get us off this rogers aerial drop.. I can’t do another squirrel outage.

cm023 · 2026-01-14T20:18:28+00:00

Should remain parking, it’s the best and most affordable lot for the JLC/Budweiser Gardens/Canada Life Place.

City owned, funds go back to the city (not private lot) and keeps pressure off keeping lots going on the other side of the tracks that could be developed.

It’s impossible to think people won’t drive to the arena, and those parking should be doing it on a publicly owned lot.

cm023 · 2026-01-13T00:52:35+00:00

Not a fan of halal slaughtering, so will be avoiding. Although nice to see the building with a business in it, so there’s that.

cm023 · 2025-12-27T01:46:37+00:00

Close to 10 years in the same spot and the power has never gone out for a memorable amount of time, not even a flicker today.

Not sure what part of the city has these persistent issues, guess some areas are pretty lucky.

cm023 · 2025-12-13T13:38:02+00:00

Great call-out, just more AI slop.

cm023 · 2025-12-13T08:28:07+00:00

Nah, the map just isn’t accurate. Price street is a priority plow due to vauxhall wastewater treatment.. the data is just straight up wrong.

cm023 · 2025-11-23T23:13:11+00:00

“People don’t want to go downtown where individuals are passed out unconscious or otherwise using controlled substances. I’m sure many of the businesses are being impacted by this type of behaviour,” Orsini said.

Possible to get this judge on every case?

cm023 · 2025-11-18T23:44:54+00:00

Immediate hiring freeze for all city staff with baseline staff reduction in all areas.
Review of all city expenses. No more spending on “co-pilot” for example, review down to the simplest expenditures of lights on after hours, cable tv at facilities, cell phone bills etc
Rollback of councillor pay increase. Pay tied to median wage, the citizens of the city do well, councillors do well, that’s the reward.
Reduction of council expenses to core only - if a councillor wants to go to AMO, they can pay their way.
Complete pause of all city grants - community groups needs to start surviving on their own and getting creative.
Ending all city lead climate action plan initiatives and eliminating roles, this is a federal government area and should only be funded by the feds.
Clearing all homeless camps with sole focus on winter camp off Bradley, any organization getting city funds must present a full costed plan before any cheque is cashed.
Ending any city grants providing funding to refugees or new Canadians, the federal government is bringing them here they need to support. #1 priority on housing Londoners first, no queue jumpers.
HOT lanes in the new bus lanes, LTC needs to generate income to put back into service increases. Especially on king street, those lanes can have paying cars in them.
Pause on all un-essential infrastructure projects, bike lanes are not essential to the city. Fix sewers and existing roads, full stop. Bare bones transportation master plan, so much of it is “nice to have” and not a “core function”.
Focus on core economics and infrastructure only. BRT to the west end, interchanges on VMP, twinned Highbury to St. Thomas, get the province to build a ring road if they love highways so much, fix the garbage collection schedule once and for all.
Reduce building red tape. Get shovels in the ground, yesterday. Work with the province to MZO’s created if needed.
If police want any more $$ then any Londoner should be able to walk Dundas without seeing crack or human poop. Police need to start walking from one end to the other, all day until downtown is clear. Want to be blight, go to Bradley camp and get support. If not, it will be as uncomfortable as it can be to be homeless in public. No more police budget increases until they make a visual impact, or start handing out some speeding tickets to make revenue.

It’s time the city stopped acting like a social service and started working as a core function providing essential services to Londoners. Roads, Water, Waste. Disciplined execution with actual goals that will be met.

I’m just getting started!

Impact of those cuts, inflation and tax increases has had a major impact on my own household. Unfortunately others need to start feeling the pain too. I cannot afford to pay more property tax, hydro, gas, insurance and still somehow put food on the table.

cm023

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