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Rykan11
Anon
2013-Sep-6 12:36 pm
[rCable] Waiting on ProvisioningI guess Rogers wants to screw with Start now...
Had my disconnect date set for the 3rd. My modem has been freed up on the 3rd and have now been without internet for over 72 hours while waiting for the transfer of service to complete.
I've been told typically it takes about 24 hours, and queries have been sent back up to Rogers, but they must be sleeping over there. |
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roccaStart.ca Premium Member join:2008-11-16 London, ON |
rocca
Premium Member
2013-Sep-6 12:51 pm
Did you transfer from Rogers or another TPIA provider? If the later, it's more likely that your old TPIA provider hasn't released your line and/or modem yet, ie could have had a disconnect with them for the 3rd but they didn't submit the request to Rogers yet.
If you want to PM me your account # I can take a look. |
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rocca
Premium Member
2013-Sep-6 12:55 pm
We're doing our best to explain the potential outage for a TPIA transfer to customers, sometimes it's seamless (ie new modem and a cooperative old ISP) but if the modem is coming along then there can be an outage while it gets released and reassigned. |
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Rykan11 to rocca
Anon
2013-Sep-6 1:58 pm
to rocca
I was getting a transfer from TekSavvy to Start (using the same modem)
Last I heard the disconnect did in fact take place on the correct date, but the stall is taking place in actually getting the profile moved over.
Thanks for looking into it. |
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to Rykan11
Similar situation here. Modem's been released, as I understand it, and waiting for the modem to be re provisioned. |
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Teddy Boomk kudos Received Premium Member join:2007-01-29 Toronto, ON |
to Rykan11
So both of you are getting walled garden 10.x.x.x IP addresses then? Unprovisioned modems, for the time being? This needs a system.. Like, a modem exchange service |
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Steveo
Anon
2013-Sep-7 8:59 am
Have the got you up and running yet? I'm waiting to be provisioned too. My transfer date was sept 5. No Internet yet |
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waiting2013
Anon
2013-Sep-7 9:09 am
I transfered fom teksavvy sept 4th cut off date ...... no internet yet 10.xxx ip address
waiting |
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Steveo to Steveo
Anon
2013-Sep-7 10:01 am
to Steveo
I have the 10.xx address |
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Rykan11 to Steveo
Anon
2013-Sep-7 10:26 am
to Steveo
Still waiting. Rocca sent it back up to see what the hell is going on.
To be clear, Start has been great in all of this in terms of keeping me informed and whatnot, but I have a feeling Rogers just feels like messing around with all the third-party providers now. |
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roccaStart.ca Premium Member join:2008-11-16 London, ON |
to Rykan11
Can you PM me your account #? |
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Steveo
Anon
2013-Sep-7 11:16 am
Oh great no Internet for several days |
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roccaStart.ca Premium Member join:2008-11-16 London, ON 1 edit |
rocca
Premium Member
2013-Sep-7 11:28 am
If you want to PM me your account # I can take a look.
edit: For Steveo. |
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to rocca
You took a look for me already, you sent up the query to Rogers around 6 PM yesterday |
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roccaStart.ca Premium Member join:2008-11-16 London, ON |
rocca
Premium Member
2013-Sep-7 11:33 am
I think we may have to stop accepting free transfers for TPIA with bring-your-own modems. Even though we try to explain this very clearly on the phone and through the forums for people that want to save the install fee, it seems to bite us too often and is not the type of customer experience that we're known for. |
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to jmcdade11
said by jmcdade11:You took a look for me already, you sent up the query to Rogers around 6 PM yesterday Sorry that was intended at Steveo. |
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jmckformerly 'shaded' join:2010-10-02 Ottawa, ON |
jmck
Member
2013-Sep-7 11:38 am
i think you just need to put a checkbox on the web orders that forces it to be checked that makes people understand it might take X days to be active.
and on the phone, just get confirmation that they're OK to possibly get no service for a few days.
the cleanest way might be to do what Vmedia does and send out a rental for 1 month for all transfers. |
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Steveo to rocca
Anon
2013-Sep-7 12:04 pm
to rocca
I don't know my account number but my phone is [removed for privacy reasons - mod]
[info : It is never a good idea to post account / personal info online. Telemarketers harvest numbers amongst other things. If you register, you can send an IM which is private. |
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to rocca
Sept 4 transfer date
I put this request in a month in advance .... then I received this
We are not able to confirm your transfer of cable internet service at this time as your current cable internet provider has not yet submitted the disconnect request. We do see that the disconnect date is listed as September 4, 2013 and in general, your current cable internet provider does not issue the disconnect request until the day after.
If you still have the cable modem for your current service you can continue using it as it will work up until the time the modem is actually released which is usually a few days after the disconnect date. On the day you lose your connection you can contact us and Rogers will be able to push through the transfer, this may however give you a down time of up to 12 hours at the most.
So I was expecting 12 hours at most .... I prob would of just paid the $50 otherwise |
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roccaStart.ca Premium Member join:2008-11-16 London, ON |
rocca
Premium Member
2013-Sep-7 12:30 pm
Self-provisioned modem, or renting/buying a new one? If the later then that's likely correct, if it's a self-provisioned, that's where we're seeing issues. Up until the recent 3Web thing we really didn't get a lot of these situations where TPIA with existing modem, but in the past few weeks we've had a dozen or so and they are proving painful. |
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rocca to jmck
Premium Member
2013-Sep-7 12:32 pm
to jmck
said by jmck:i think you just need to put a checkbox on the web orders that forces it to be checked that makes people understand it might take X days to be active.
and on the phone, just get confirmation that they're OK to possibly get no service for a few days. We're already communicating this on the phone but will be extending it to the signup page as well as likely requiring a rental or something else. We have lots of people that say "okay no problem" to the potential outage but end up disappointed anyways. |
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to rocca
I think it's more of a process of setting realistic expectations, and telling the users how to cancel their previous service so that you can get their modem quickly.
In my case I canceled TSI for the 5th, and expected 24-48 hours downtime. I started counting from the 5th - which apparently is the wrong way to count? When I phoned in yesterday noon, I learned that TSI released the modem early on the 6th. Ok. So do I start counting the 24-48 hours from the 6th? Is it technically from the time you put in the modem provisioning request after the modem is released? Does the 24-48 hours include weekends?
Basically it feels like there's something in the process that either I didn't do, or isn't done and is holding up the process without anyone realizing it needs to be done. |
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to rocca
I own this modem Brought it with me from teksavvy I have the 10.xx ip |
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roccaStart.ca Premium Member join:2008-11-16 London, ON |
to nbinont
said by nbinont:telling the users how to cancel their previous service so that you can get their modem quickly The problem with 'bring your own modem from an existing active account' is that there is no way to cancel it quickly currently. This will all change next May when the CRTC rules are implemented on service provider transfers (which enables us to cancel services on behalf of the customer), but until then there is no easy path to take your existing active modem through this process unfortunately. In the past it seemed to be minimized to a day or two, but with the current issue of Rogers taking an extra day or two to process the requests due to volume this time of year, it has left some customers out for a few days during the transfer. edit: FYI, I've updated our transfer FAQ with a grid. » FAQ Cable transfers |
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to Frank White
said by Frank White:I own this modem Brought it with me from teksavvy I have the 10.xx ip If you can PM me your account # I can see where this is. (can't find you in our systems by Frank White unfortunately). |
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to rocca
Ok, so the delay basically consists of two parts: 1. Waiting for the previous cancel, and 2. The wait from the provisioning request (which can only be made after the cancel is confirmed)? And the delay for step #2 is longer than usual (maybe a couple days) this time of year? Am I understanding this correctly? |
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to rocca
That grid helps a lot. Do we specifically need to request that the other provider release the modem in addition to canceling the service? There seems to be two things your FAQ mentions, but I only recall hearing confirmation of the cancel, not the modem release. |
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roccaStart.ca Premium Member join:2008-11-16 London, ON |
to nbinont
Sort of.
Because disconnections take 5 days to occur, if there is no modem issue to deal with, our order is accepted after the disconnection is seen but before it's processed, and so there is often no downtime. However, when the modem being used with us is still active, it isn't released until the day after the actual disconnect date, we then do our confirmation saying "hey it's released now", and Rogers generally would be quick on them, ie under a day, but recently because of the time of year (or whatever the reason is), these confirmations are taking 2 days now. |
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Thanks. That certainly makes things clearer for me. |
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Steveo to rocca
Anon
2013-Sep-7 2:35 pm
to rocca
I just hope it won't take a week or two to resolve |
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