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I'm finding it bizarre that there's nothing anywhere about Shaw's network (both residential and commercial) being down on Vancouver Island for five and a half hours this morning. Media contact in Edmonton denied all knowledge of the incident afterwards.

Kiss those five nines goodbye ^_~

[spanky123]

Perhaps because they weren't!

I know a few people are making that claim but perhaps it is to cover their own butts.

I use Shaw both residentially and commercially and had no issues at all during the times in question.

[Holden West]

Was it out two nights ago? I was under the desk hitting all the reset buttons thinking it was something on my end.

[spanky123]

The claim was that there was a "massive" outage impacting Victoria and Vancouver from about 11pm Monday night to 6am Tuesday morning.

[sebberry]

Hmm.. mine was out Monday night I think. Some sites I could get to, others I couldn't.

Modem was online but I was unable to renew my IP after a few resets.

I have a 6GB tethering plan with my BlackBerry so it wasn't long before I was browsing again


On a good note, Shaw has upped the speed of their Extreme internet package from 15Mbps to 25Mbps.

[sebberry]

Seem to be having some problems again. Some sites working (VV, Flickr) other sites not (Times Colonist, Facebook).

Very strange.

[Holden West]

Same here, except Flickr is not working for me.

[sebberry]

It's very strange.

Now VV is down for me with my Shaw connection. Plugged in my phone again to get here.

Oh well, I should be in bed nursing my cold anyway.

[Bingo]

Telus has been fine.

If you have a Playstation you might have some concerns with your credit card information.

http://www.wired.com...network-hacked/

[Holden West]

Ah, we're back on. The hamster must have been taking a break.

[Mike K.]

About a week ago our Shaw connection at the office went down. After a while of no access I called up tech support only to learn that Shaw wasn't aware of what turned out to be a neighborhood-wide outage. I don't understand how they could have not known.

[Bernard]

That explains the problems I was having, interestingly I had real trouble connecting to the net over Rogers at the time of the problems

[sebberry]

Annd we're back!

What happened to VV this morning?

Maybe it was that power surge/outage we had a couple hours ago

[Mike K.]

VV was up, but if anyone had access issues it was likely a local Internet connectivity issue.

[sebberry]

VV was up, but if anyone had access issues it was likely a local Internet connectivity issue.

Strange, it was down for both my Shaw home connection and Bell cell connection.

There be gremlins in dem routers!

[Nparker]

...it was down for both my Shaw home connection and Bell cell connection...

I was unable to connect this morning around 10:15 but it seems only my access to VV was affected, all other sites I tried to access were fine. I use Telus as my ISP.

[sebberry]

So you were having problems from 10:15, I wasn't able to access it until 12:00. No problems with other sites this time.

[Mike K.]

Hmm, weird.