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June 1, 2024 11:40 am  #1


Vandals cutting wires cause widespread outage for Cogeco

Originally reported as affecting Hamilton and surrounding areas, it appears as though customers as far away as St. Catharines, Fort Erie and Welland are also without service.

Cogeco outage - Facebook



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June 1, 2024 12:50 pm  #2


Re: Vandals cutting wires cause widespread outage for Cogeco

Local tweakers stealing copper wire?

 

June 1, 2024 1:01 pm  #3


Re: Vandals cutting wires cause widespread outage for Cogeco

Had a situation here in London about 5 years ago where some guy tried stealing copper wire from a London Hydro transformer station. They found him fried the next morning.


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June 1, 2024 1:13 pm  #4


Re: Vandals cutting wires cause widespread outage for Cogeco

turkeytop wrote:

Had a situation here in London about 5 years ago where some guy tried stealing copper wire from a London Hydro transformer station. They found him fried the next morning.

You can't fix stupid.

 

June 1, 2024 2:45 pm  #5


Re: Vandals cutting wires cause widespread outage for Cogeco

Cogeco ergo sum

 

June 1, 2024 8:16 pm  #6


Re: Vandals cutting wires cause widespread outage for Cogeco

This is another example of weak networks with no back up, even anything legacy. Totally silly

 

June 2, 2024 9:42 am  #7


Re: Vandals cutting wires cause widespread outage for Cogeco

newsguy1 wrote:

Cogeco ergo sum

Took me a second, good one newsguy1!