[Prism TV] CL Prism/phone/10mbps Internet installed, but can't g
My mom has had CL for phone and painfully slow 1.5 mbps Internet with Dish for tv for a while. She just switched to the CL triple bundle with 10 Mbps Internet and Prism TV. The install was yesterday...
View Article[Embarq] Anything the customer can do to speed up DSL?
My family has a rural vacation home a few miles outside DeFuniak Springs, FL. Several years ago the local telco, CenturyLink/Embarq, extended their DSL service to the area, with the understanding that...
View ArticleInternet unusable when it rains and modem reboots at 10:40PM
This has been an ongoing problem for the last few years. Last Saturday it rained at around 10PM, and my internet was unusable the rest of the night. It wasn't until Sunday afternoon at around 2:30PM...
View Article[Qwest] Major DSL speed and latency issues
So I'm new to Century Link DSL and so far am not impressed. I am running on their ADSL service with a maximum bandwidth of 7Mb/1Mb. I live in a new construction home built in 2008. There is one line...
View Article[Qwest] 4500 ft. loop, but 2 doors down/50 ft. away gets 40/20
My loop length is about 4500 ft. (per tech support), so I've only been able to get 20/.896 for the past few years. This always seemed odd to me as the physical distance to the DSLAM (a tech told me...
View ArticleOddest problem with CTL to date. Please help!
Ok, so many last week I started have issues with my latency. I went from having a fantastic steady ping rate of 19-20ms on every hop, without a drop for over a year. Around a week ago, my mom was...
View ArticleCL PK50001Z prevents sharing wi-fi
Recently got CL. after sending two different modems-all PK50001Z. Problem is I have three laptops. An old Toshiba running XP, a newer HP elitebook running W7, and a MacbookPro running 10.6. I can...
View ArticleHow CentryLink has made my life hell
Grab a cup of coffee, this is a long one. ---------------------------------The good (boring) stuff------------------------ So I recently moved, I wanted to bring my family a little further out of town....
View ArticleAny centurylink dsl issues in 55347 area ?
In the last week or two have there been any issues with centurylink dsl in the 55347 area ? This was formerly Qwest. I have been having some video streaming issues(Hulu+) and tests show packets dropped...
View ArticleCentury Link Data-Cap
I was wondering if it was ever clarified whether or not Century Link enforces a data-cap? I use a traffic monitor that is built into my netgear router/modem and have been watching how much data I...
View Article[CenturyTel] I'm eligible for 12 downstream/5 upstream. But the
Hey All, I'm eligible for 12 downstream/5 upstream. But the Actiontec pk5000 manual says it's only good for 1mps up. But another website seems to say something different. Does anyone know if I'll need...
View Article[CenturyTel] zyxel pk5001z firmware upgrade and Android 4.1.2
Hi all, I recently had my old modem only device replace with the above zyxel modem to attempt to resolve a constantly deteriorating line speed issue. Good news is that it seems to have stabilized but...
View ArticleInternet slowing down at a specific time
Hello all! For the past couple of days around 6:30 p.m to 8:30 p.m my internet and my close relatives who live next to me is seeing slow speeds at this time. Usually what fixes it is a quick modem...
View Article[CenturyTel] CenturyLink upgrades to my neighborhood
Hello everyone I live in the Rolling Green subdevision of SW Cedar Rapids, near westdale mall and 29th ave. For the past few weeks CenturyLink contractors have been working pulling fiber in the...
View ArticleHow to interpret this Event Report from CenturyLink?
I received the following Event Report from CenturyLink. It has since been resolved. As far as I can tell it never affected me. I'm just curious if there is a way to determine which card/port my service...
View ArticleNovice questions about new modem/router
For 6 years, I've had a NETGEAR-RangeMax WPN824, "802.11g w/MIMO" router, and an Embarq 660 Series modem. I'm not sure what was happening, but previously when I would try to connect my media player to...
View Article[CenturyTel] westell g90 firmware update
i couldn't post a reply to a 2010 OP to this (mancer21) but wanted to say thanks and share what i so far have found. i was given a zyxel pk5001z as a replacement for the 6100/ g90 westell. i begun...
View Article[Qwest] Google TV (Logitec Revue) doesn't work with Actiontec C1
Dear fellow Centurylink users, I live in the Seattle area and recently got a Centurylink DSL internet service (40MBPS download). The modem/router combo that I am using is the Actiontec C1000A. I've a...
View Article[CenturyTel] DSL Wireless router
I have the phone line running into the back of the wireless router. Then I have my phone plugged into the back of the router where it says phone. Do I need to put a filter on and if so do I put it on...
View ArticleOddest problem with CTL to date. Please help!
Ok, so many last week I started have issues with my latency. I went from having a fantastic steady ping rate of 19-20ms on every hop, without a drop for over a year. Around a week ago, my mom was...
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