Is FiberOP TV as reliable as Rogers? - Canadian TV, Computing and Home Theatre Forums

BitStop · 2012-08-30, 07:50 PM

I had Rogers Cable for 15 years and I was not a big fan of it for 100s of reasons. But it did almost always work. Sure I may have 1 day a year where we would loose signal for a few hours.

I have had FiberOP now for a few months now and so far I have had almost one day of NO TV and often see glitches when I am watching a show that I never did see with Rogers.

Is this normal with FiberOP or am I just having a bad experience?

philster · 2012-08-30, 10:48 PM

I've been on fiber op for over a year and before that I had Aliant TV over DSL.
never really experienced any issues. I only have the PVR and one set top box, and both are connected via Cat 6 into a switch and then the switch goes into the router.

I have had friends who have had issues. typically minor and usually some form of equipment failure that Aliant was able to resolve on a site visit.

When was it that you had NO tv? was it a saturday a few months back?

Danster · 2012-08-31, 07:39 PM

IMHO, the reliability is about the same. I've had my shares of problems with ROGERS and I've had a few ones with FO just as well. Especially in the first months of my install. Since then nothing major.

2012-08-30, 07:50 PM	#1
BitStop Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 31	Is FiberOP TV as reliable as Rogers? I had Rogers Cable for 15 years and I was not a big fan of it for 100s of reasons. But it did almost always work. Sure I may have 1 day a year where we would loose signal for a few hours. I have had FiberOP now for a few months now and so far I have had almost one day of NO TV and often see glitches when I am watching a show that I never did see with Rogers. Is this normal with FiberOP or am I just having a bad experience?

2012-08-31, 07:39 PM	#3
Danster Moderator Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Lincoln.NB Pop 465,123 Posts: 5,342	IMHO, the reliability is about the same. I've had my shares of problems with ROGERS and I've had a few ones with FO just as well. Especially in the first months of my install. Since then nothing major. __________________ Home Theatre: Yamaha HTR-6190, Klipsch Speakers, SANYO PLV-Z4, TOSHIBA HDDVD, LG BD555C, Cerwin Vega HTS12 Sub, VIP2300, XBox 360, HTPC.

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2012-08-30, 10:48 PM	#2
philster Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Saint John, NB Posts: 166	I've been on fiber op for over a year and before that I had Aliant TV over DSL. never really experienced any issues. I only have the PVR and one set top box, and both are connected via Cat 6 into a switch and then the switch goes into the router. I have had friends who have had issues. typically minor and usually some form of equipment failure that Aliant was able to resolve on a site visit. When was it that you had NO tv? was it a saturday a few months back?