{"id":227521,"date":"2025-10-20T18:58:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T18:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/227521\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T18:58:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T18:58:10","slug":"cogeco-outage-knocks-out-internet-for-customers-in-ontario-quebec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/227521\/","title":{"rendered":"Cogeco outage knocks out internet for customers in Ontario, Quebec"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been a rough day for internet users. First, a <a href=\"https:\/\/ici.radio-canada.ca\/rci\/en\/news\/2200853\/amazon-web-services-outage-hits-several-major-apps-websites\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">massive Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage<\/a> took out tons of apps and sites. Now, Cogeco customers in Ontario and Quebec are stuck without internet and other services.<\/p>\n<p>Per Cogeco\u2019s website, the outage is impacting multiple services including internet, TV, and home phone. The outage started at 2:17 p.m. ET. Cogeco says it\u2019s working to restore service and expects it will take about four hours.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1015073\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/cogeco-outage.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"834\" height=\"392\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not entirely clear how widespread the outage is. I live in Hamilton and use Cogeco internet, so I noticed immediately when problems started shortly after 2pm. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cogeco.ca\/en\/support\/outages\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cogeco\u2019s outage page<\/a> checks for issues based on your postal code, so when I checked it only confirmed the outage in my area. However, Downdetector\u2019s outage map shows most of southern Ontario and parts of Quebec are hit by the outage.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s also no word yet on what caused the outage, which will be a factor in how long it takes Cogeco to resolve the problem.\u00a0MobileSyrup\u00a0will monitor the outage and update this story with any additional information.<\/p>\n<p>MobileSyrup may earn a commission from purchases made via our links, which helps fund the journalism we provide free on our website. These links do not influence our editorial content. Support us <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3J3VJYp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s been a rough day for internet users. First, a massive Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage took out&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[49,48,28017,244,41726,61],"class_list":["post-227521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-internet","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cogeco","tag-internet","tag-outage","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}