Century Link Business Internet high speed test but slow speed
Century link has been giving me a hard time with its confusing speed test and its phone support that can't seem to figure out my problem. It made me do extra work for a 149$ a month phone/internet plan...
View ArticlePacket loss when using more than 50% of bandwidth?
Hell all, I am having an issue maybe you can help me sort out, about 2 months ago I began noticing issues with webpages loading and watching multiple HD movies at once which Ive always been able to do...
View ArticleGPON Fiber in Vail (South Tucson) AZ
Hey I bought a house in Moutain Vail Reserve area and we are waiting on CL to finish the fiber install out here. It's a completely brand new install with new fiber lines. The cabinet's was installed...
View Article[CenturyTel] Odd Attained Speed
What would cause a 12MBPS connection to `train' at Page 11768 instead of 12 meg? DownStream Connection Speed 11741 Kbps UpStream Connection Speed 892 Kbps Line Attenuation Downstream 34.0 dB Upstream...
View ArticleC1000A won't start after reboot
I've had the C1000A modem for a month or so, and today, I felt I needed to reboot it. I logged into the modem and went to utilities and clicked Reboot. After about 5 minutes I realized it was taking...
View Article[CenturyTel] Laughable customer service response
I called up customer service today about how an unlimited internet service account can have "limited" usage. After escalating the call, the rep tried to tell me that there is a glass ceiling limiting...
View Article[CenturyTel] Centurylink consistent packet loss
I did not notice this until I played league of legend / facetime with my friend. So what happen was I got bad connection every 10-15secs so game got disconnected and facetime screen just froze due to...
View Article[CenturyTel] I just upgraded my modem to pk5001z
Hello, i had to upgrade to the new pk5001z from the R660 not by choice but was forced to by an act of god. Our phone box got hit by lightning and fried the modem, phone, a switch box, and an ethernet...
View ArticleGetting out of 12 month agreement
Anyone ever have any luck getting out of a 12 month agreement with CenturyLink? Our service has been terribly unreliable. A technician came out last week and performed some maintenance on the F2....
View Article[Prism TV] 2nd Internet Connection
I am currently locked into a 12 month agreement, thankfully almost half way through it, with CenturyLink for Prism TV and DSL internet. My problem is I let them sucker me into this DSL connection with...
View ArticleNeed advice
My CenturyLink DSL suffers from random, long periods of packet loss with episodes of 100% packet loss for 5 - 10 seconds. This has been going on for months. Every time a tech shows up, of course,...
View Article[CenturyTel] Fee increase - unethical CL practices
More unethical practices, nickel and dime increases. Access Recovery Charge (ARC) Explained: This fee is a monthly charge to customers or other telephone companies by a local telephone company for the...
View ArticleCore Connect
Currently on 12/896 residential plan, but I'm looking into upgrading to a business plan. Mostly for the unlimited data. 12/896 is the fastest I can get at my location, however when going through the...
View Article[CenturyTel] Are these okay line stats or should I have a tech come out?
ADSL Link Downstream Upstream Connection Speed 12124 Kbps 892 Kbps Line Attenuation 34.0 dB 18.9 dB Noise Margin 9.1 dB 18.1 dB
View Article[CenturyTel] Is this a normal ping on the first hop? Modem > dslam 80ms Average
Pinging the dslam gateway: Ping statistics for 184.156.145.1: Packets: Sent = 742, Received = 740. Lost = 2 , Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 46ms, Maximum = 189ms, Average =...
View ArticleIf Centurylink's wasn't such a joke I'd cry...
Hi guys, I found this at http://downdetector.com/status/centurylink more people with the same problems. I am thinking about contacting my city council, state and federal representatives and find out...
View Article[CenturyTel] Phone and internet off and on
Phone and internet are up and down for 3 days and won't be done for 3 more. Service Guy NEVER SHOWED OR CALLED as century link doesn't seem to care about customer service.
View ArticleCRC errors: What's the acceptable threshold?
Hi all, I am pleased to say that after living without wire-based broadband Internet access for over 5 years, I finally have a 10 mbps DSL connection at my home! Getting it set up would not have been...
View Article[Embarq] help with cat5e from NID to new phone jack
Hello all. I need some help. We got 10M DSL installed in eastern NC. The tech hooked to the Nid and I told him we would run cat5 to a phone jack. Got 100 feet of cable and hooked from the NID to a new...
View ArticleSetting up a Guest SSID with a valid subnet
I have an update to this older post: http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r28636982-Help-Configuring-2nd-SSID-on-CL-Actiontec-PK5000 I experienced the same issue being told that the subnet was invalid. It...
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