04-18-2013
05:31 PM
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03-19-2015
01:04 PM
by
RogersAruliny
For a media company that sells internet services, Rogers should be embarrassed that their own website is so slow and buggy in this day and age. Unfortunately this is nothing new...it has been like this for years, and is never fixed. What gives? Will Rogers ever release a website that works like a website in the 21st century should? Please save your response if the reply is similar to "We apologize, our technicians are working on the issue." If that is the case, it seems your technicians have been asleep for the last decade.
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04-18-2013 05:45 PM
04-18-2013 06:55 PM
I agree. Rogers should be embarrassed that their Website is as bad as it is. They should also be embarrassed that Nextbox is an unmitigated disaster and they should also be embarrassed that they cannot provide a decent D3 modem. Is there anything that they should not be embarrassed about?
04-18-2013 07:06 PM
04-20-2013 12:12 PM
Yeah, as some of you noted, it's not just their website, but most of their services in general. Just look at their on demand service and then take a look at Bell's. The difference is night and day. The on demand from Bell's Fibe service is fast, simple, clean, well-organized, and easy to use...period. The same can be said about the website. Bell's site is so much easier to browse thru and I can't remember the last time it was down...I'm sure it too has it's share of issues, but they're not as frequent as Rogers.
04-25-2013 01:49 AM - edited 04-25-2013 02:18 AM
Even though it would cut down on customer service, I don't think they want their site to be useful. I honestly think they're hoping their customers will give up and go away.
A few weeks ago I tried to access my account to check my bandwidth and cell usage, something I've do every few months when I'm worried about going over my limit. I logged in successfully and navigated to my account information and was greated with a message that there were no services associated with my account. A few days later I tried again and the problem resolved itself, but in addition to the normal problem of Internet usage not being up-to-date (which is ridiculous) my cell services had conflicting information, showing red overage warnings but nowhere close to being over under the usage details.
There other services are no more reliable.
It seems like every couple of months there will be a period of several days where I get either constant error messages or time outs trying to read my Rogers e-mail online. I'll keep trying until I'm able to read the few genuinely important e-mails then wait for the problem to resolve itself, but one time it was happening when a Rogers manager was training some door-to-door salespeople who knocked on my door to sign me up (apparently they don't cross reference with their customer database). I told him about the problem I was having, he took out his phone and typed something, and instantly my e-mail was working fine again. I asked him what he did and he said he reset my acccount.
A couple of days ago I called (after giving up twice because of "unsually long wait times") about slow downloads and attrocious pings I'd experienced for several days and it turned out that tech support already knew exactly how long I had the problem before I told him and he fixed it by "resetting my account".
It's pretty obvious that their system is capable of idenifying and resolving these problems, so the question is do they choose not to have their system fix these problems automatically or do they cause these problems intentionally?
Whatever the case, customer satisfaction is clearly not a Rogers priority.
04-28-2013 07:18 AM
06-04-2013 12:57 PM
06-04-2013 03:14 PM
lafrance,
If you are experienceing lockouts and having to reset your email almost every time...
Are you using a 3rd party email prgram and if so which one? A couple of them (thunderbird mostly) seems to make TOO many requests, and has a tendancy to lock up the account.
Users using windows mail or outlook dont tend to get the lockout.. or alot rarer.
I use outlook on the PC and also connect to the same account via my iphone, and do not get the password reset lockouts (only time i did, was when someone tried to hack it and locked it out on me).
Only time i get the unavailable message, is sometimes if i try to check on my PHONE and OUTLOOK at the exact same time.
If you are using this on a phone.. and if the phone supports a naitive connection to YAHOO (like the iphone does), give it a try instead of using PoP.. i switched and have not got a single even cant connect to the server since even when checking via multiple locations at once.
06-14-2013 09:26 AM