DSL Service over old 2 wire copper-coated steel drop line?
I have signed up for Centurylink DSL service in Montana. I will be doing a self install. In preparation I am replacing my in-house lines with Cat 5e lines or possibly just connecting the supplied DSL...
View Article**Is their anything i can do??
I have centurylink service, on an only 1.5 Mbps speed but i only get .50 Mbps. Apparently my place is the farthest from the internet tower or hub. I called and asked them to send me a reboot signal a...
View ArticleCan I use C1000A or Q1000Z as router only ?
I have a C1000A and Zyxel Q100z modem+router lying around and I was wondering if I could use either of them in router only mode. This is the opposite of bridge mode where the router is disabled and...
View Article[CenturyTel] Anything going on with Centurylink email?
For the past couple of days Outlook has been reporting that my Centurytel email login isn't valid. It's never changed and I checked the credentials that Outlook has and they are the same as they've...
View ArticleVLAN Tagging on Tomato for FTTH
Good day, After messing with the setting for a few days as well as on the phone with Centurylink tech support for more than two hours, I thought I would post here to get some advise... I am in...
View ArticleWhat do I have to say to get someone to care? Awful quality.
Seriously? Check out my modem stats above. Right now i'm having piss latency and random disconnects and timeouts altogether. Yesterday I had a century link tech come out here, who ran his tests and...
View Article10meg to 25 - I think I screwed up!
Not asking for help just want to vent for a bit. Faster speeds just came to my area, but my speeds are actually slower than before. Originally, I had 10/768 and the speeds were spot on, day or night....
View Articlelost packets
dg$ traceroute www.cisco.com traceroute to e144.dscb.akamaiedge.net (72.246.164.170), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets 1 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 4048.719 ms 0.598 ms 0.560 ms 2 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1)...
View Article[Qwest] Modem Settings
Is there any where I can find the modem settings for CenturyLink for my area? I want to verify I have the set correctly.
View ArticlePing issue
Okay well this started about 4 or 5 days ago. My speeds are spot on, but I am having terrible ping issues. I will post a picture of a speedtest just to show it. Wasn't sure what to do figured I would...
View ArticleBonded pair only available for business account...why?
Why is it that I am able to get a 40M/5M bonded pair service if I were to switch to a business account, but I can not get the bonded pair as residential service? I'm stuck at 20M/896K as my maximum...
View Article[Qwest] Internet Speeds & Prism TV - Phoenix
I have VDSL2 - 8A bonding with Prism TV in Phoenix, AZ. I currently have 20 Mbps / 2 Mbps service (although I'm getting the full 5 Mbps that's been provisioned). I'm seeing an option to get 40 Mbps...
View Article[Qwest] Technicolor C2000T - upload from Macbook Pro locks up the router
I am a business-class CenturyLink customer. I had a new bonded-pair ADSL2+ circuit installed at my new office in downtown Boise, Idaho and within a couple days we started to notice some odd behavior....
View Article[Prism TV] Prism TV through firewall
Hi, I recently subscribed to the Centurylink fiber internet service and prism tv. It works fine, but I would prefer not to have my firewall behind theirs (double NAT) even though I could DMZ my...
View ArticleGigabit advertising in Vegas
Lol. Last month Cox announced Vegas will be getting in gigabit from cox. Now centurylink is advertising gigabit. Unfortunately, every time I ask centurylink about gigabit, I get a "no". Not to mention,...
View ArticlePretty frustrating, isn't it?
Back-story is that I've been with US West/Qwest/Century Link for years, and have subscribed to fixed-IP addressing from them on ancient 1.5/768k DSL for use with my own mail-server. I was recently...
View ArticlePacket Loss/Latency Broadcom Chipset Modems
I have a Zyxel and a Netgear modem. I have heard it said that Broadcom chipset modems usually work better. I am getting packet loss/latency issues with the Zyxel modem but not the Netgear modem
View ArticleCenturylink has a Circular Routing Loop
Century link has tried to push this off on Ncsoft as I notice the issue while playing the game Wildstar for quite a while now. I have called them numerous times, with no avail. The phone techs are...
View Article[Qwest] Cable issue?
After I corrected the modem setting thing have improved, but there are still many issues. Here are the statics from the modem. DSL Status VPI: 0 VCI: 32 DSL Mode Setting: MMODE Connection Status:...
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