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Staying with the inlaws that use Rogers' reseller for wired internet. Using Fido for mobile internet access (also by Rogers). Zero internet. It's wild to disc
by tra3 4y ago
Staying with the inlaws that use Rogers' reseller for wired internet.
Using Fido for mobile internet access (also by Rogers).
Zero internet. It's wild to discover how reliant I am on the internet:
- Can't get around this city (no waze, gmaps).
- Can't figure out what's going on (AM radio is non stop commercials)
- Can't figure out where we might get some internet (maybe WeWork somewhere? How do you find one without internet)
This is just wild. Almost as critical as no water, or no power in the winter.
- EngCanMan 4y agoStill no internet at all? I have a suspicion that you found some…
- dogecoinbase 4y agoThe HN downtime was to add a post-by-postal feature
- doubled112 4y agoMy reseller connection (Start.ca) is down, and Telus’ cell phone service becomes near unusable because of the extra load. I expect the device I send this from will be offline again in the next few minutes, but I’m willing to be pleasantly surprised.
- Scoundreller 4y agoHave been getting all circuits busy alerts periodically throughout the day. Fun stuff!
- markus_zhang 4y agoStill no sadly. My phone shows 2G network. The last time I use 2G network was probably...decade ago.
- Scoundreller 4y ago> Can't get around this city (no waze, gmaps). offline gmaps! Thankfully Canada’s horrendous roaming and overage charges has taught me how to use my cell phone effectively without service. (Also have the entirety of Wikipedia on my phone, thanks kiwix!)
- throwaway742 4y agoHow much storage does Wikipedia take up?
- Scoundreller 4y ago88gb for English
- dredmorbius 4y agoFor more information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwix ~88 GB w/ images, English. 47 GB w/o. There are also Wikipedia apps which opportunistically download pages. You'll have access to what you've previously read offline, but will require connectivity to read more.
- guerrilla 4y ago> - Can't figure out what's going on (AM radio is non stop commercials) Don't you have public service? Isn't that what CBC Radio One is, with no commercials?
- christinamltn 4y agoThe outage took down some CBC stations https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6514376 https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6514376
- jonny_eh 4y agoI'm genuinely curious now how you access HN.
- tra3 4y agoDrove around for 2 hours to see if another cell might be up, nope. Stopped a test stop that had internet. Looks like Fido is back up, but the isp is still down.
- antoniuschan99 4y ago680 news is AM radio version of CP24 at least. 680 news is owned by rogers and cp24 is owned by bell lol!