Downdetector & ThousandEyes Miss Multi-City Rogers Outage in New Brunswick

Rogers users near St John and Fredericton, New Brunswick were hit with a widespread outage this evening starting at 8:15pm AST, impacting nearly ~2500 users. Netstats detected the outage and posted the notifications to Twitter (X):

Date & Time: February 14th, 8:15pm AST (12:15am UTC)

Number of Users: ~2500

Location: St Johns, Fredericton, Oromocto – New Brunswick

Postal Codes: E3B,E3A,E2V,E2M,E2J,E2K

The outage didn’t register on the Cisco ThousandEyes Internet Outage Map:

DownDetector also didn’t pick it up:

This outage impacted over 2,500 users and spanned three cities, yet was not detected by the conventional outage detection services. Netstats offers both massive scale – covering over 200,000 networks across Canada – and incredible precision, with detection of outages as small as 20 users. Learn more here.

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