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Optik TV frequent internet disruptions and countless rebots
Almost as soon as we converted to Telus Optik TV from shaw two years ago we have had to regularly reboot our system every time we want to watch anything, either manually by unplugging the modem or by...
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Please excuse the harsh tone of this post. All I can say is that this whole experience has been unbelievably frustrating. We changed from our long standing Shaw service when friends of ours recommended the Optik TV service. We also used it on occasion when traveling to a few Air BNB's. We were very impressed. But those systems had a different modem which I think was A LOT more stable and reliable.
I don't expect perfection when it comes to anything involving IT or IT related systems but the issue is a regular one and all the fixes that we've tried don't seem to work.
At the beginning when Optik was first set up we had frequent disruptions with both TV's. I moved the routers for both closer to the modem's about 10 ft away and this seemed to do the trick. But over time the same issues started again and with even more regularity.
Reboots will get us up back up and running for a short while, then it's back to the same thing. Also going back to the home page and finding a different channel will work but soon it shuts down. I did a factory reset on one of the modems and that didn't work either.
So as I say it's frustrating when watching something and it just shuts down.
I'm to the point now that I don't really watch the actual TV anymore and only use my apple TV to stream various providers via their apps using my StarLink system. So I think my Optik TV days are numbered.
Doug McLennan
