[CenturyTel] Is 1.5MB DSL fast enough for telecommuting?
I am trying to get "broadband" installed at my house, and unfortunately Comcast will not extend the line from my neighbors house (about a 400' distance) leaving me with the only options of satellite,...
View ArticleOutage in rural Kansas
About 11:30 am Tuesday July 2, my dsl Internet service has gone out. Recording on tech support 800.788.3600 at 12:30 pm says there is a known issue and ETA back up is 10:00pm tonight. Sheesh.
View ArticleEnd of the nightmare
Happy to say, my Sprint / Embarq / Centurylink days are over. PRISM has failed me spectacularly, and I can only caution anybody against it. - 3 separate instances of full working days without internet...
View Article[Qwest] Q1000 keeps rebooting (at random) on the hour & half hou
CenturyLink Q1000 modem. Looking for an answer to this problem. At random at :00 or :30 my modem reboots. The power light goes out for several seconds, then starts blinking and continues to boot up....
View Article[CenturyTel] Western Arkansas Slow Upload
My service 1.5/256 - Had upload issues over the past few weeks. Download is usually on the money, but the upload goes up to speed then falls to nothing in a matter of seconds. My mother and my...
View Article30 Minute FEC? Are these numbers OK?
Well guys, ever since we switched to 40/5 the service has been disconnecting a few times each week. When we were on ADSL it was very rare to have disconnects, mostly rock solid for the past 5 years or...
View ArticleReusing my Q1000 after ditching CL
I finally ditched DSL from CentruryLink (aka Qwest) after 8+ years of stand-alone DSL from them. They're not intending to upgrade anything in the foreseeable future in Minneapolis and the best I could...
View Articlecenturylink resets at same time every night
so i was looking at several other posts here to see if anyone had an idea why my adsl modem resets everynight. connection log says: 07/05/2013 10:55:45 PM SystemMaintenance VcAutoHunt Success!!...
View ArticlePrism Tv.
so the ads have been running heavy lately. not interested in locking into a long term contract with steep ETF. THEY'REsaying one dvr box, multi-room. now is this ala cox where you got a dvr with multi...
View Article[Prism TV] Unhappy with centurylink
When century link came out to set up my tv internet system, they changed my modem without asking, requiring me to reconfigure my computer network. After set up, TV and box did not work with remote,...
View Article[CenturyTel] Request upgrade in my area?
I've lived in the same house for the last six years right in the middle of town. I live a quarter mile away from a college and have had the same 6meg internet since I've been here. And people that live...
View Articleneighbors wifi squishing my centurylink DSL signal?
I just switched from Comcast cable modem to Centurylink DSL 1 week ago and set up the modem in the living room. At first I was able to connect via wifi using my laptop and iphone 5 in the bedroom as...
View Article[CenturyTel] FL Panhandle - Local phone service issue - 1:28am e
Good day, I realize that this is a phone line / voice issue, not a broadband issue, but my parents and I have exhausted our collective patients with this issue. -- BACKGROUND -- My parents live in the...
View Articleinterleave off by default?
Hi, I just got back on CenturyLink 12 meg DSL after a few months with Comcast (Comcast had too much in-game lag for me). In the past, with Qwest, interleave was on by default and one had to jump...
View Article20mb in Ft. Myers area.
Centurylink is advertising in the Ft. Myers area double speed 20mb service. Any techs out there know what service it is? ADSL2 or maybe VDSL? They have been burying fiber cable all over the area recently.
View Article[CenturyTel] Centurylink conection keeps dropping. high ping, hi
Well a little bit after centurylink buried my dsl line and they inspected it a couple weeks after I started getting horrible lag in my games (sometimes drops) and slow loading on pages. I already had a...
View Article[Embarq] dsl keeps dropping
we have been having issues with our dsl off and on for about a month. the dsl will drop randomly and it gets worse when it rains. we have called centurylink 4 times and they say that they set up a...
View ArticleCenturylink throttling Netflix?
Ever since I got the 40/20 speeds netflix doesn't even want to play at 1mb. I had 6-7 before and it played fine at 5mb or so. But now it doesn't want to play and on my PC speedtests get 38/18 so it's...
View ArticleCenturyLink FiOS?
Someone just came to my door (southeast unincorporated King County, zip code 98042, near Kent/Covington/Maple Valley/Black Diamond) and told my wife that CenturyLink has installed "100Mbps FiOS" (more...
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Can one install cat5 wiring through spray foam insulation? If so, how difficult is it?
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