Swapping to prepaid pricing
So I currently pay 85 a month for gigabit and want to switch over to the 75 dollar prepaid price for life. It says it's online only. Aside from ordering new service online is there any way to get my...
View Article[Embarq] Best modem for rural area ex-Embarq?
I've had a 2Wire 2701HG-S, Westel 7500, and now a Actiontec PK5001A. I'm looking for the most stable and fast modem for my area. I don't care about the routing or wifi. I simply want to put it in...
View ArticlePrepaid Price for Life Internet for $45 - anyone tried this?
I currently pay $48.94 per month for 40Mbps down/20Mbps up with Centurylink. This is a promotional price that will expire in a few months. However, it looks like Centurylink is running a promotion for...
View ArticleWhy is my CenturyLink DSL out again (East Texas)?
Can someone tell me what the issue is now? Calling tech support does nothing. They aren't aware of an outage. They want to troubleshoot despite my informing them that friends and relatives in the area...
View ArticleMoving with DirecTV/CenturyLink contract
I have to move. My landlord wants to move back into this house when my lease expires at the end of the month. I currently have a contract with CenturyLink/DirecTV because of a deal I got. My problem is...
View ArticleDid you opt out?
Does this mean we're giving up our right to complain to the FCC besides the other stuff? The Revised High‐Speed Internet Subscriber Agreement has been updated from your previous agreement with...
View ArticleHelp, 2 year old neighborhood. Home not listed. (neighbors are)
Utah, Utah County I live in a new neighborhood (2 years now). I went looking to move from Xfinity to Centurylink Gig service. If I enter my house its not listed (or pre populated) But if I enter my...
View ArticleHow does CenturyLink address provisioning work?
Trying to order service for a resident's room in a nursing home. Other rooms are listed at shop.centurylink.com but this room is not. If I call in or chat, reps say room has been added and they can...
View ArticleWill Centurylink bond two 4mbps lines for the price of one?
Essentially all I can get at my location is 4mbps. I know in larger locations they bond 2 pairs to get better speeds. Would they be willing to do that in my situation at get me up to 8mbps? I'd...
View ArticleHow to completely turn of WIFI radio on C2100T
Does anyone know how to completely turn off the WiFi radio on the C2100T. I'm running one in bridge mode and I am not using the modem's WiFi. I turned off the 2.4 and 5G WiFi radios using the GUI....
View Article[CenturyTel] Actiontec c1900a dual bonded slow wifi speeds
First of all, thanks to anyone that replies and tries to help me out; I am with Centurylink in Phoenix and am paying for 80/10 on a dual bonded (I think or maybe it's pair bonded) line. Testing the...
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My house is prewired for ethernet in multiple rooms of the house. I had a tech come out to move my modem down to the central panel to connect into the modem and make each of the drops in each room hot....
View Article[Qwest] Is "Simple" Prepaid Internet inferior in any way?
I haven't been a DSL customer in several years, but need to take a break from feeding the cable pig for Internet for a while. (See the end of the post for those who don't remember the Dish ad campaign...
View ArticleCenturyLink Support Staff: Latency
I have tried the CenturyLink online chat for the last 30 days and nothing seems to be changing (They say the latency below is acceptable), so I though it was worth trying to post here to see if...
View ArticleAdvice on line problems after replacing PK500 with C1900a
After suffering a few months of steady line degrade on my 10mb ADSL2 service (retrains, CRC, FEC errors), CL sent out a tech last week. After initial troubleshooting the tech says my line/loop are...
View Article[CenturyTel] Modems
Which off the shelf modems will work with CenturyLink? What modem are using?
View ArticleAre these guys serious?
I wanted to look at what Centurylink offered as an alternative to cox's capped monopoly service, and their website always errored out so I could never get an online quote, but gave me a number to call....
View Article"Amazing" speeds after 15:00 CST lasting until evening
So I've been charting my speeds using several different speedtest servers, over the last several days (5). I'm getting about a max of 80mbps on the 100/100 fibre, down to 6mbps (amazing, right?) I have...
View Article[Embarq] My Embarq service now has double the upload speed, for no reason.
So I just noticed that my 1.5Mbit package from Centurylink (formerly Embarq) is no longer syncing at 1760/288, but for the first time in like +6 years its been upped to 1760/576. I did nothing to...
View Article[Embarq] allocated resources exceeded
The complete error is: Sep 15 08:00:08 localhost postfix/smtp[25057]: 16AE21000D17: to=, relay=smtp.embarqmail.com[206.152.134.66]:587, delay=1.5, delays=0.95/0.43/0.1/0, dsn=4.3.4, status=deferred...
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