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Re: G20 Toronto – My own crazy story

anarchy87 — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 00:00:41 -0000

1 billion dollars and adding up for a meeting of bullsh!t, and then they close the core of the city down for a meeting that will never do anythoing for us, then they say happy canada day with hst comming into play.. what a joke i hope the worst of things come into play because this g summit thing is just a joke and waste of tax payers money. so if we wnt to burn a cop car so be it we paid for it, just like we paid for the streets of toronto the city thinks they can close down on us.. this isn't about protesting.. if about the police from the start thinking were the enemy and there for have 500 police officers and riots squads ready for this event.. if there wasn't so many police there would not be such a disturbance in peace about the event...

Re: Bell IPTV: Not Ready, But an Important Stepping Stone

DjLevel9 — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 18:42:05 -0000

The Serverice was Launched Officiialy June 14th My Birthday I was supposto get it installed Monday between 8:30 Am And 12:PM
Dommic Grossi from BELL IPTV Made the arangements On May 31 when the launch was supposto happem and bell Entertaiment Services July 6 2010 will be handling all calls now for IPTV and Bell ExpressVU Sky DISH.

The IPTV Boxes 25 and UP I Installed In My Utility Room in my Building Back in March this Year I was Under Special Products through DOMMINIC GROSSI from Bell IPTV 1-888-855-0000 EXT 6701 I was supposto get a Phone call back from his office 48 hours later there trying to Tell my Department in Bell did Not Install The 25 Meg & UP 2 Boxes for IPTV Services ONLY Not FIBE/25 eaither Ive gone one step to Launch a Fourmal complate agaist Bell and the People who been writing notes on there web sites about the new services where the New services was never even Installed untill you actullly go and Install please don't say you have when its not there accourding to your Postal Code. Ben I'm just tired of gettinga run around and I work for BELL CANADA I had it out with there VIP occice today and gave all the web sites stating about the Services Beta Testers Trials where not supposto blabber it telling people they have the service it will be thouse who will loose there service and all internet five 25 will be cut down to 7 meg Only for your internet well you runn your TV at the same now its work paying the 70 dollars for internet plus the cost of the IPTV. I'm going Live on TV In The Morning and show all Documents that where handed out to the beta customers I had enough

Re: Bell IPTV: Not Ready, But an Important Stepping Stone

Michael Coulson — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 13:39:07 -0000

Hi Ben - yes, I must say, now that the kinks appear to have been worked out, I love it. It makes me very happy to see that Bell is finally getting behind it because the interactive possibilities are endless. And while I think the open Internet will ultimately steal a large proportion of user traffic, we as consumers need big brands to organize and package information for us, and to spend money on things like QOS.

Re: Bell IPTV: Not Ready, But an Important Stepping Stone

Ben Lucier — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 13:33:12 -0000

Hi Michael,

I've been a customer for almost a year and overall have been happy with the Bell Entertainment Service, despite that it's currently in beta. Even though the service hasn't been rolled out officially, I'm not sure I echo your concerns. Overall, everything has been great. Perhaps Bell has problem in certain areas... I don't know.

Re: Bell IPTV: Not Ready, But an Important Stepping Stone

DjLevel9 — Wed, 19 May 2010 23:43:55 -0000

Now techs Move your A** and get the Jobs done the Test Board office send the right informations to you guy's Girls why arn't you's folling the directions given to if you call the central dispatch have them Check the Test Board office in Hamilton they can tell you thes ame thing I'm telling and trying to explaine here.

Re: Bell IPTV: Not Ready, But an Important Stepping Stone

DjLevel9 — Wed, 19 May 2010 23:39:22 -0000

I was Prommised over a year ago to the Bata tester and have the system on in out Building I still have the e-mails as an Envited Guest to try out the new System as a Beta Tester ,
It never happend or Maybe I know more about they service then the Techs do cause I study up and took the Course that was Offered and still see the main issue that would solve a lot of the Gliches in the Download and up Load Speeds FIBE 25 techs if your reading this Go out and talk to supervisors and check each Termimal at the Stingers for Lione Load In Balance then make the nessarly ajustments and your problems would be solved how could you s have miised after use 3 systems with bell direct lines to the CO saying our Lines where maxed out when they where not it was on the bell side in the central office all the time the Provisioning of the Lines and Mapping the 877 Cisco routers are an encential that should never been over loked let this be a lession learned no wonder why your customers res & Bus where ticked off Bell hired this new team do I need to come and re trained them how to program and restart the systems and re Program the software for the New Cell Pipe 7130's for the IPTV it's really not Rocket Science Guy's just the right software and an a good back up system to over see the Gliches on line with Human Interactive Direction as well.to make sure it's running Smoothly.

Re: Bell IPTV: Not Ready, But an Important Stepping Stone

DjLevel9 — Wed, 19 May 2010 23:27:58 -0000

I hope the Launch is still ready to go for May 30th 2010 but they have to fix the line inbalence first could the team that handles the FIBE 25 Techs miss that that they where haveing Gliches in the system if it wasn't for me making a report into the Test Board in Hamilton they would let this problem go on I guess the when the Techs for Fib 25 are Disspatched they need to checking for Line Load In Balance and not sign off the ticket saying the Lines test clear I found the problem once the Ajustments are made on The Jarvis Street Line tomorrow where ready to go here and they can give our building the service I see no reason why they can't if the Bell Entertament Office gives another excuse why they Can't there gonna hear from My Office.

Re: Bell IPTV: Not Ready, But an Important Stepping Stone

DjLevel9 — Sun, 09 May 2010 01:16:58 -0000

Steve here In Toronto I have the Fibe 25 Internet Still Waiting For Our launch May 30th 2010 For Cell Pipe to carry it over our VDSL 2 Lines Keep are fingers Crossed I wan't to get rid of the Bell Satilite so bad lol hate when it rains loose signal same with the snow .
Right now I'm getting a 41 Meg Down Load and 10Meg up with out the IPTV on the line there talking about rasing up to 50meg In Une then 100 meg at the end Of this year so yea it's about time was paying over $200.00 a month for ADSL Extra Direct line to the CO and they wouldn't even give more then an 800 up load the DL load was supposto be 16.319 down load they said my line was always maxed i said To the Montreal off and The DSl Speed test People your Crazy I have the same software Lantern And WebCare to do the dest and My Line from the Demarcation point was 47 not 100% as they kept saying I CO Cental Office said I 47 as well it was excellent so told Jean.Hanna.bell.ca they can stick there service not getting ripped off any more lol yea it worked got turned on in 2 days Full number released and changed I wouldn't trade this connection for anything lol so amasied How All five computer 1 desk top have the same speed and doesn't srop and the Line is perfect helps with my software to test the lines to lol:) so yea id this FIBE 25 is avalible In Canada and your cities Tell Rogers to stick it they can't even compaire and Proved it lolol nice Big Shots yea won't get the speeds from the CRTC they have rulled that one out this and it all gos to BELL lol

Re: The Boss Brass, Dec 19 2008

Michael Coulson — Mon, 03 May 2010 18:11:57 -0000

RIP Rob. We'll miss you.

Re: Bell IPTV: Not Ready, But an Important Stepping Stone

Michael Coulson — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 19:42:05 -0000

Hey Alex - thanks for the kind words. I'll definitely surf on over and check out your community!

Re: Bell IPTV: Not Ready, But an Important Stepping Stone

Alex Sirota — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 08:49:04 -0000

Michael,

Awesome article -- can't believe I haven't found it yet. We've started a Canadian IPTV community over at http://bellent.currentinter...

There are almost 50 Bell Entertainment Service subscribers there (well ok a few are just lurking to see how it works out). The discussion continues at a steady pace and a few weak links have been identified including the above mentioned Alcatel Lucent Cellpipe router -- it well, umm, sucks.

Feel free to check it out and join -- your opinion and advice would be highly valued! Thanks for bringing some light to this exciting new way to watch and record TV.

Re: Resume

Michael Coulson — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:48:19 -0000

Been active with my kid's school over the past year (JohnWanless.ca) as Director of Community Relations, and Chair of the Technology Committee, and am very happy to report that we have raised enough capital to fund 18 new smartboards. http://smarttech.com/

Re: Bell IPTV: Not Ready, But an Important Stepping Stone

Michael Coulson — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 16:12:14 -0000

An addendum to the bell IPTV saga. While I stand by all my predictions about slow and difficult growth from above, I am happy to say that the bell entertainment service hasn't given me a single problem in months. Seems that once we got the network bugs ironed out, the service works great.

And, if we're talking retention, I think there will be a lot of very disappointed people out there if they decide to shelve this. The whole-home PVR and the Microsoft EPG (http://www.youtube.com/watc... make it "WAY better TV" than cable's scientific atlanta box (http://www.rogers.com/web/R...

Re: The Boss Brass, Dec 19 2008

Michael Coulson — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 11:27:32 -0000

Hey Rowen! Thanks for the praise - this blog doesn't get many visitors ;-)

I hope you've picked that bone back up and are playing again!

keep in touch

mike

Re: The Boss Brass, Dec 19 2008

Rowen Bell — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:29:44 -0000

Nice article, Mike. Nice picture, too.

Re: Xbox live - typical problems with online video

uccemebug — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 09:55:00 -0000

That's fairly lame. And they wonder why people -- even insiders like Stephen Fry (see http://torrentfreak.com/ste...
-- are just turning to torrents.

And in a related note, just what has to happen before these firms stop trying to shoe-horn DRM into this. I was speaking with a Sony engineer two weeks ago who said that the engineers all over Sony cringe whenever anyone from the media arm (like this twit, http://www.boingboing.net/2... shows up, because they know that the media division's going to demand something that will neuter the product the engineers are designing.

Thanks for the interesting post, Michael.

Re: Unconferences, Democracy and Change

Chaim Wizah — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 14:12:37 -0000

So - what are we talking about here, a quadruple Moore's Law? While I can see ideas spreading faster, this won't affect tech change in the West, but it may have amazing impacts in the Third World and other places that can now access this info.

So I suppose if you're looking at the whole of the world, things may indeed progress faster.