[kwlug-disc] FibreConnect info

[Mikalai Birukou]

On 2026-05-08 18:11, Scott King via kwlug-disc wrote:

> There are some folks from the city surveying for upcoming fibre lines in the Westmount neighbourhood.
>
> I like the idea of ditching Rogers and getting fibre to the home (fibre-to-the-premise — FTTP as they say). It seems to piggy back on Telus under the hood.
>
> Has anyone heard of them?
>
> Photos of the pamphlet.
>
> https://share.icloud.com/photos/0efBll3QbBb0VITahIwYAbXQg

Forest Heights neighbourhood here.

We had the following on our crescent.
- Houses already have phone and other cables entering premises. On easements, ... and you plant your flowers on other patched.
- Contractor comes and lays cables from the street according to their whatever. And their whatever goes randomly in respect to existing places of where you expect cable will be, i.e. on the opposite side of the house, meaning we have to redo internal cabling from one side to the other.
- I had to personally tell people "not to dig", "not allowed on property", while poor chap with the shovel is scared of not doing "what he is told to do". The dark fiber is still sticking out in a wrong place. <rant>Some of this social f***ery wastes everybody's resources. Kinda off tech topic, but you really start to appreciate that Russians and Germans were just mostly normies, and this is how human system is abused, when you look at how each gear is connected.</rant>
- A few houses on our crescent had fiber on the wrong side. We insisted on seeing supers/whatever. They did come, one or two visits. Of course, none of those visits were necessary in normal org. I mean, we were not needed. <rant>My grandfather used to tell me stories from USSR times. No difference. It is about human pyramid, not about its colour.</rant>
- Finally cables were layed properly. And with my neighbour we even put fiber and coax into conduits under out front lawns.

My neighbour was more proactive with another chap down the crescent. All was good thanks to them. Credit is were credit is due.

My neighbour was excited about fiber, or, ... "Fibe" as Bell used to put it in a flier. Only two years after installation he has stuff on level that he was promised. All while he was paying to Bell. <rant> ... insert your own rant here </rant>

Fiber is good. I am not going to it, till TechSavvy is there to shield me from nonsense.
I personally switched from DSL (Bell) from TechSavvy to Cable (Rogers) from TechSavvy in 2020, cause upload of screenshare needs bandwidth for clear audio. Upload speeds, not download speeds. <preaching to the quire>If upload has no bandwidth to escape, you will sit in a golden cage, cause doors are effectively closed.</preaching to the quire>

Unfortunately, culture at Bell is not respecting me, a consumer. There, I said it.
You can find Berlin's by-law named Bell-something, from 1918, pdf, seriously. But is seems they treat it as they are the king of the hill, and not a respected neighbour.
And it is culture. It sips through. <open-ended-rant> ....
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.kwlug.org/pipermail/kwlug-disc_kwlug.org/attachments/20260510/ba18cc33/attachment.htm>