Xplore outages and service status in Fort McMurray, Alberta

Problems in the last 24 hours in Fort McMurray, Alberta

The chart below shows the number of Xplore reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Fort McMurray, Alberta and surrounding areas. An outage is declared when the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line.

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Xplore Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Systematic Hands (@MADmarky112) reported 7 minutes ago

  @xplore_ca **** xplore 160$ a month for 20mb/s with a 200 g limit is bull **** most of the time it won't work at all

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  Nick Dodd (@nickdodd) reported 8 minutes ago

  I lived 10 years where nothing more than 150mb was an option (aside from starlink, or xplornet - but neither support static IP addresses which I need). I personally contacted every fiber provider in Canada about getting fiber and when the major provider finally came to my town I was literally the first person to get hooked up.

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  yeeet (@TheSmichers) reported 9 minutes ago

  @xplore_ca Today Xplore decided to upgrade the tower in our area, except they didn’t contact us about upgrading our equipment. Good job xplornet, thanks for the sales pitch to upgrade now that you’ve discontinued the service we pay for… ******* garbage company through and through

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  Mamabear 🇨🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (@freshouttafacks) reported 9 minutes ago

  @dubsndoo We bought Starlink direct(no rogers needed). Only internet service we can get in Ontario country. Shaw satellite and xplornet lte had download speeds of .5. Had that for 10 yrs…now we have 250. 7 people stream/game or work at once w zero issue. Love it.

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  Acura (@TheSmitefulOne) reported 9 minutes ago

  @b3almason @RachelNotley I have Xplornet. My neighbors have Starlink. We checked together. Both suck, however, many in the area have said their Xplornet signal became better when some users switched to Starlink. They are roughly the same, but nowhere near as good as fibre optic in the cities.

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  Moe G (@moegaultier) reported 10 minutes ago

  @xplore_ca Yeah right, and using rabbit ears and pots and pan to transmit from customer to customer…

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  Darren (@xraydares) reported 14 minutes ago

  @pcroft @xplore_ca That sucks

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  CdnARS VE4PER (@CdnARS_VE4PER) reported 14 minutes ago

  @BobIrvingCJOB and since I am in rural area with @Xplore aka xplornet ISP with oversold network hardware infrastructure service often degrades so badly that they force me to be wasting my $25/mo fee on bomber games as well so these things appear to be new standards of customer service 4 all biz

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  Commissioner Miner (@fanCRTCProfling) reported 16 minutes ago

  Also, why is Xplornet not made party to this #CRTC outage file? Do they not operate at all in the area hit by hurricane Fiona?

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  Allan Wilson (@uncleal13) reported 16 minutes ago

  @CoryBMorgan I had Xplornet, worked great for a few years, then it would bog down in the evenings as everyone in the area was streaming video. I switched to Statlink, works much better. Currently here in Saskatchewan in my village there are crews going through running the main fiberoptic lines and should have it to all the residences sometime in the summer. I'll be switching to the fibre when I can. I like Starlink, but I don't think it is sustainable, when it is up to full capacity, to continuously launch 3,000 satellites a year to maintain a fleet of 15,000. They are low earth orbit. Meaning each satellite can only stay in orbit about 5-7 years, then it comes down and burns up.