Classy of Sportsnet and Ron Maclean to do a tribute to TSN's Darren "Dutch" Dutchyshen. Always sad to see someone die so young. I watched him a lot when he first started in the 90s and he's always been there ever since. #RIP#TSN#rogers
The stupidity of having #IPTV that still relies on pointing a remote control at the cable box instead of letting the remote control work over the internet too feels astounding to me. Sure it might require more energy, but that's why you make the remote control rechargeable. #Rogers#Ignite#TV#Canada
For the past four days, our cable TV has been at best unreliable, but for the most part non-functional. Multiple calls to #Rogers later they actually finally ran some tests and figured out what could be causing it. Now they send out a senior level tech that won't get here for four days. While the family is livid, I'm snickering. This is what happens when a monopoly company operates in a small area.
Here’s an example of how the recent #Rogers/ #Shaw merger has benefited consumers:
Some techs showed up at the home of my 82 year old mom. Swapped out her perfectly working router for reasons that probably made sense to them. In the process they fucked up her wifi printer.
Mom goes online for support, ends up getting scammed by someone posing as #Canon tech support who bills her card $60 (probably through a sponsored Google link). She figures it out calls the bank and cancels the card
My family is so supportive!
Me: By the way, I'm redoubling my efforts to find a job.
Family: Why?
Me: Because I'm sick of these outages.
Family: Oh my god. Do you really think paying $2000 for an apartment is going to make a difference?
Um... yeah? Since if I have anything to say about it I won't be using #Rogers as my ISP.
These are people who claim they let me make my own mistakes so I learn from them, too.
Well, once again, our entire neighbourhood is without all #Rogers services. A year ago all of #Canada went down, a few months ago we lost it due to bad weather and it didn't work properly for days, July they "upgraded" our neighbourhood with fiber and that disrupted our services... I'm getting sick and tired of this. But of course, we can't switch providers because they have the place on lockdown. Even if they didn't, the family has say on what services we use, not me. They're perfectly content.
@haligonia Federal government pays for Rural Fiber, Province pays for Rural cellular , taxpayers pay the highest rates, and pay for the installation to a monopoly company that makes billion dollar profits?
My god, the Voice Guidance #ScreenReader for #Rogers#Ignite is an utter joke. You can't change the volume it speaks at, which means I'm constantly having to adjust the volume of my TV itself, as it speaks at something like twice the volume of whatever I'm watching. To make matters worse, whenever I'm trying to use it to watch something, there's no way to interrupt speech, which means I have to listen to it read the entire description of a show on Netflix before I can select an episode to watch.
So let me get this straight. Americans can get the latest iPhone free from their cellphone carriers, while here in Canada Fido offers me a “superpower deal” of just $120 off an iPhone that is three generations old while charging amongst the highest service rates in the world.
You’d think our government and regulators would take some sort of action for Canadians but instead they rubber-stamp #Rogers and #Bell eliminating competition. Politicians are puppets! #EatTheRich#greed#CanPoli
Bloody Canadian Media Companies: I subscribe to cable minimally, basically just to get live/local news, some movie channels, and the two national sports channel, TSN (BellMedia) and Sportsnet (Rogers). All in, with a $15 landline, an outdoor security camera, and 1Gbps Fibre Internet, it costs about $230/mo. TSN has 5 live channels. Five! This morning they have two dedicated to the same Formula 1 broadcast and two showing their Sports newscast on repeat.
Meanwhile, on their app, they have TSN+. This used to be included in the main subscription. It shows La Liga football matches, among other things. There are two La Liga matches and one world Rugby match available.
I wanted to watch Valencia v Athletico Madrid today but NO.
Wow sweet. I live in Western Canada and my ISP was Shaw (already kinda shitty) and they just got bought by Rogers (terrible). I'm about to cancel my service because I'm moving and will be on a different ISP anyhow.
I was just clicking around the site looking for the cancellation process when I noticed that Rogers had without my fucking knowledge or consent auto-enabled a "Rogers Wifi Hotspot" using my (formerly Shaw) modem/router.
That's fucked up enough. The more fucked up part is I had disabled the company-loaner modem/router's wifi antennas because I put it in bridge mode to use my own router(s). So they effectively hijacked the device sitting in my home, turned the wifi antennas back on without my consent, and have been broadcasting their own public wifi hotspot with it.
@jmhorner For sure. When I got on Shaw last year I looked far and wide for any "approved" modem/router hardware that I could buy myself and put on their network and there were like three... and they couldn't even guarantee they would work. Thus taking their gear and bridging it (turning off their wifi antennas) immediately so I could use my own routers was my only logical choice.
For posterity this toggle was ON when I logged in just now. Again without any notification, consent, etc. Warning to all #Shaw#Rogers#ISP customers...
I just went to set up #TekSavvy for my new apartment and apparently the #FiberOptic line going into the building is blocked for #IndepententServiceProviders. I've been with TekSavvy for probably close to 20 years (National Capital Freenet before that).
Especially ridiculous that they can do this going into an #AffordableHousing building and charge tenants whatever ridiculous inflated rates they want.
I'm still a little annoyed by #TekSavvy's positioning in order to be bought out in the coming months, if only because I can predict what will happen:
Bell will come in with a good faith offer to purchase TekSavvy (one of the last big third-party #internet providers!!) for pennies on the dollar, and then they will immediately carve up the customer base. DSL/Fiber customers to #Bell, and Cable customers to #Rogers & #Cogeco