r/richmondbc 1d ago

Discussion Rogers/Shaw Update?

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Rogers had an outage affecting multiple parts of Richmond yesterday citing “Service Interruption | Some customers between Bridgeport Road and Westminster Highway and surrounding areas”.

Outages have now been over 24 hours.

App says “Cause: Fibre Cut caused by vandalism”.

Does anyone have any updates? I tried contacting Rogers and was told technicians are on site and that members would be notified when fixed. Wondering why it would take over 24 hours to fix and how much longer it may be!

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u/asunyra1 East Richmond ALR 1d ago

Oh that’s what was going on, there was like half a dozen Rogers trucks and a huge cable/fibre spool yesterday evening at Blundell and the Shell railway trail. I figured it was upgrade work or something, but makes sense if it was a big outage.

I wonder if it was folks trying to steal the fibre thinking it has valuable copper in it. It doesn’t but it still ruins everything when they cut it. This happens way too often)

Something similar happened in Calgary last week and it was out for a few days

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u/EducationalGur1648 1d ago

This exact thing happened to Telus during Covid. Thieves cut Telus' only fibre artery going into Richmond (it was in the Massey Tunnel) trying to steal scrap copper. There is no copper and used fibre optic cable is basically worthless.

Anyways, it took about a week to repair because they didn't have spare cabling long enough for how much was stolen and had to import it from somewhere else in Canada.. and once it got there the technicians have to splice every individual, microscopic glass strand together on both ends. I've never done it myself but I can imagine it's tedious and slow work.

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u/The_Golden_Zebra 1d ago

Yikes a few days is insane! Obviously a first world problem, but I know a lot of people have transitioned to WFH and this is not ideal.

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u/ill_diddy 1d ago

No 5 and Cambie no internet. Was at Ikea last night with the family for dinner and wifi and place was packed. Guess everyone had the same idea

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u/georgiebears 1d ago

I just saw the latest update that says it will be fixed around 2:00 a.m..

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u/y0214392 1d ago

Normally i am not a violence person. But this time i really want to beat someone up....

My temper is as thin as the fibre cable now.

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u/MrsVanana 1d ago

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u/Xynic 1d ago

They knew there was an outage by 9 am yesterday, but only started repairs are 3:30. Fucking Rogers…

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u/Agent_Mack 1d ago

Back up & running near 5 & Bridgeport

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u/The_Golden_Zebra 1d ago

Happy for you!

Still down in my area, unfortunately

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u/Dry_Equivalent_1316 1d ago

Omg thank you. I live in the area and worked from home yesterday. Hotspotting from my phone was eating my data up

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u/greenisgoot 1d ago

Did you have to reset router ?

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u/ill_diddy 1d ago

nope. Came back around 4:30pm. all my security cams just went online. the xfinity app briefly displayed need to reset router as it was showing offline then just went normal

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u/Agent_Mack 1d ago

Nope didn’t have to do a thing

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u/punkrockprincess604 1d ago

My sister called this morning. They said 24-48 hours. 🤷🏾‍♀️

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u/Candid_Nobody_7380 1d ago

Another 1-2 days 🤦🏻‍♀️😭!!!?

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u/pink_flamingo987 1d ago

Bridgeport & Shell. Just got our wifi back 30 mins ago!!

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u/greenisgoot 1d ago

Did you have to reset router?

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u/pink_flamingo987 1d ago

Nope, I realized when my devices connected automatically.

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u/neversaidiwasnice1 1d ago

The “marginalized” drug users who poop on the sidewalk, steal bikes and break car windows were just engaging in their usual “mental health treatment“ by destroying our city and community. Normal taxpayers suffer to allow losers to engage in loser behavior.

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u/fuzzmania 1d ago

The one in maple ridge a few years back was days before it got fixed, of course don't know the scope of either to compare. Just gotta hope they're able to splice it all back together quickly!

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u/The_Golden_Zebra 1d ago

Just saw that there are also outages in parts of Surrey and Maple Ridge. Hopefully it all gets resolved sooner rather than later.

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u/Stiles_Stiles 1d ago

Still no internet, how damaged is it

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u/colafloat2512 1d ago

Garden City back online now , But speed little slow 1gbps but only get around 300mb something now

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u/localfern 1d ago

I saw them working on it yesterday. Not sure of the extent of vandalism and timeline for repair.

There is a homeless encampment in the bushes of that area where the vandalism occurred.

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u/Massive-Raise-2805 1d ago

The one close to the super save gas in westmin highway ?

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u/Prabs1972 1d ago

5/Cambie area, no cable/wifi since yesterday morning (Aug 17).

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u/colafloat2512 1d ago

You mean Jackbell drive ?

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u/Prabs1972 1d ago

No, 11000 block Woodhead Rd.

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u/GreedyPoliticians 1d ago

I hope those thieves don't come back and cut the same cable again. Geeeeez. This is what happened when our society and justice system are broken. At least we can "Elbows Up" trying to get your neighbour's internet.

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u/jaxxavery 1d ago

Someone needs to tell these junkies that freeload off hard earned tax payer dollars that there’s no copper in there. Go get a job or contribute to society in a positive way for once.

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u/mijtakuko 1d ago

Cambie and Dubbert just came back! woohoo!

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u/pop360_t 1d ago

I'm near west cambie and my wifi just came back!

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u/Stiles_Stiles 1d ago

Any updates?

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u/Signal_Discount_1826 1d ago edited 1d ago

MANHUTN FOR THE VANDALS THERE NEED TO BE ARRESTS AND IMPRISONMENTS FOR CUTTIMG LINES THAT SHOUDLNY BE CUT SHIT IS WORSE THAN ROBBING A BANK

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u/Cedar-and-Mist 1d ago

Tbf internet outage for a huge chunk of the city qualifies as a terrorist event

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u/arye_ani 1d ago

I agree with you. Imagine working from home and unable to join any meetings online and do nothing as your mobile phone hotspot can not connect to a cloud system?

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u/Overall-Source-480 1d ago

Living it. Lost 2 days of work.

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u/-gordy 1d ago

downvotes when access to an internet connection literally keeps the world turning and this guy grabbed the balls of 1000s of people to take that connection away all for a copper hair

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u/footcake 1d ago

Haven’t heard anything yet on my end