By Tom Warren@tomwarren Updated Jul 8, 2022, 9:52am EDT Rogers confirmed the outage and says teams are ‘fully engaged’ to fix it
"Rogers outage shuts down Canadian banks' ATMs, POS and internet banking Interac, a Canadian e-transfer service, is currently down due to issues with the Rogers network provider. Interac provides transactional services for payments exchanged between financial institutions and companies. The service is used by several Canadian banks, including Desjardins, Tangerine, National Bank, and HSBC Bank Canada..." https://www.finextra.com/newsarticl...adian-banks-atms-pos-and-internet-banking/pto
It was hell not to have any Internet, Cellular and TV services for at least 24 hours but things are back up and running. We used and old AM/FM clock radio to check the news and well music. I had my services back about 6am EST as far as I know.
Yes I know when you get those nasty storms! It's a strange feeling not to connect to anything or anyone!
Throw in a daily newspaper and landline telephone, and it would have been just like the good old days
Landline via Rogers uses a Phone Cable Modem so they were out as well and some still are. https://www.rogers.com/support/home-phone/reset-the-battery-for-the-arris-tm402g-p-modem
I could survive 24 hours with out internet/cellular/tv but for the under 30 crowd it would be panic city, just imagine not being able to look at your phone every 5 minutes.
Okay worse than I thought. CBC news interviewed one of the executives that day and it appeared as though he was going to blow a gasket. https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2050513987664 I know how stressed these guys get when a break occurs in their fiber optic network, even though it does not result in an outage because of redundancy. It's just that they're scared out of their minds because until the break is fixed, they are down to only a single loop.
Yeppers but we all need a break once in awhile even if was forced on us! I still find some pages are still loading slowly and my folks just got back there Landline phone this morning. So it's still an on going issue.
Yeah, but imagine the day we have a major solar storm that ripped off all our communications for weeks or months, this will be chaos!
