[Qwest] Has my Q1000 been hacked?
Today when I wanted to look at my configuration page to check that WPS was disabled I typed in 192.168.0.1 and the address bar showed me a 192.168.0.1/advancedsetup_admin.html so I clicked on it. It...
View ArticleCenturyLink Providing DoD's Equivalent of Internet2
Network provider CenturyLink has won a $750 million contract from the Department of Defense found this on slashdot about them...
View ArticleCenturylink DSL - Video Conferencing ?
I've had PRISM / DSL (10mbit) for a while now, but it seems that in the last month, I'm having lots of problems, specifically when using video conferencing. I'm working from home, and use a Polycom HDX...
View ArticleProvo Google Fiber (formerly iProvo) vs CenturyLink
So I'm a little north of Provo, but hoping I can still participate eventually. But is there anyone that's been participating with iProvo as it is? Have you had a chance to compare it to CenturyLink's...
View ArticleCenturylink giving problems
We have centurylink phone+dsl internet. We have periods of slow and fast dsl speeds, each lasting for 2-3 months before switching to the other. Fast periods we have 4-5mbps down/0.3-0.4up with a ping...
View Article[CenturyTel] Pay for 1.5mbps, get 0.05mbps - the Centurylink way
I had decent service for more than a year up until April 11th, 2013, but from that day on my 1.5m DSL connection has been delivering speeds like this: http://www.speedtest.net/result/2674075401.png...
View Article[Qwest] Intermittent Disconnects
Random Disconnections. I'm sure it's a problem with CL/Q. Modem is a TP-Link td-8810. Test Jack in NID has a splitter, one side goes filter->house wiring, other side goes to modem. Disconnects...
View ArticleFalcon COlorado
I am getting phone, internet and Prism installed tomorrow. they say I can only get 12mb internet because of Prism. I hope I am not sorry. but at this point I hate comcast and so am ready for a switch
View Article[Qwest] Aurora, CO - More down than up.
I just switched to CL 2 weeks ago. Everything was fine until Friday night, when I lost internet connectivity. It was down for 14 hours. Every night since then it has gone down some time in the evening,...
View ArticleAvilla, IN Service quality bad again. Fixed 1st time by FCC
During peak hours 5pm-12:30am. I'm pinging yahoo at an average of 500ms. Google @ 150ms. Bandwidth ranges from .7 to 10 down and .3 to .76 up. I usually will ping 30-40 to chicago,google, yahoo with 10...
View ArticleHow to get real Support
I'm getting intermittent dropouts on my DSL line. It loses connectivity several times a week. Sometimes it will reconnect but sometimes I have to reboot the modem. I called CenturyLink 3 times...none...
View Article[CenturyTel] Latency Issues - CenturyLink Business DSL
We're using CenturyLink business DSL and over the past month we have been experiencing high and random latency as well as dropped packets. For example, I just performed five ping tests to...
View Article[Prism TV] Beware of the door to door salesman
On Saturday a very nice young man came to our door and after listening to his sales pitch and the savings he quoted we decided to go ahead and switch to Prism. When the installation man came to the...
View ArticleCentury Link Gigabit Fiber
At Home i have Fiber to the house with Centurylink but the speed is only 40M what will it take For Centurylink To update this area to Gigabit Internet?
View Article[Embarq] Just had Bonded DSL installed. Looking for a good modem
Hi everyone. My first post here. I just had Centurylink install a bonded DSL connection giving me 25 mg in my home. Many problems so far. Internet getting dropped and the service is slow. I had 10 mg...
View Article[Embarq] Slow....for a while now....AGAIN
Well, like clock work, CTL is slowed again in the North Texas area to a crawl at times I want to use it. It has been this way now for at least the past 5 months. I've only just reached the point to...
View ArticleDoes CL have something going on on the internal network?
I'm not noticing any packet loss with what i'm doing, but my roomie who has to VPN for work (works for an airline out east) is having dropped packets/VPN disconnects on the DSL line. According to the...
View ArticleDROPS : It'sThunderstorm season again
I have been through this for several years with Qwest/CenturyLink, today I got fed up again and called tech support. It takes 5 minutes during a good thunderstorm for my connection to drop. I know many...
View Article[CenturyTel] Spiky, jumpy, wavering DSL speed? Fast, slow, fast,
Does anyone know what would cause the DSL speed to rapidly jump fast and slow, several times a second, over and over? Speed is not constant at all. Windows 7, Task Manager update speed is Fast: [att=1]...
View Article[Qwest] CenturyLink Modem Issues (i.e. PowerCycling Itself)
So, we have the PK5000Z modem from Qwest/CenturyLink. Since we started having CenturyLink (About a year ago now) the modem likes to power cycle on its own. Some weeks it'll do it multiple times a day,...
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