<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 11:47 AM Remi Gauvin <<a href="mailto:remi@georgianit.com">remi@georgianit.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 2024-12-12 11:24 a.m., Cedric Puddy wrote:<br>My experience has been, universally, the complete opposite. Whenever<br>
there is a problem, be it cable or Modem, dealing with Rogers takes<br>
*hours*, often requires multiple attempts, and endless gaslighting and<br>
upsells. When I contact Teksavvy about a problem, they handle all that<br>
for me, and everything is much smoother. (admittedly, needing, or even<br>
just wanting to test, a modem replacement, costs a few hundred. Worth<br>
every penny in time and frustration.)<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">Ten years ago, I switched from Rogers cable internet to reseller cable <br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">internet. First with Vmedia, then to CarryTel, then Vmedia, and switching</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">again to CarryTel in a few days (driven by finding the cheaper one for </div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">the same or better service tier). <br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">It is very convenient not having to deal with Rogers at all, whether continuous</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">upsells, or lousy tech support. <br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">I did have my cable internet die one winter, and called the reseller (forgot</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">which one it was at the time), and they dispatched a Rogers tech (or a contractor,</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">who knows), who rigged a temporary cable to my house, then in spring they</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">came in and fixed the curb side box. This is the same problem that Ron Singh</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">mentioned in another thread recently: infrastructure that is ~ 40 years old, <br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">and sporadically fails. <br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">Up to a year or two ago, it was a common sight in the neighbourhood to see</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">these temporary cables running up street lights, across the street, to a tree,</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">and then to a house. But I have not noticed them lately. <br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">Anyways, in my case, dealing with Vmedia and CarryTel for support, is not as </div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">bad as Cedric's experience. <br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">YMMV, ...etc. <br></div></div></div>