[Prism TV] Prism TV with Internet
I've been searching online for people who have Prism TV and there's not a lot of information about the service other than marketing from CenturyLink. Anyone who uses the service have any information on...
View ArticleCenturyLink 1 Gigabit speed cut in half using my own Asus Router
I picked up the Asus RT-AC87R router today and I FINALLY got my own router to work with my 1Gig service. I went into the router's settings >> LAN >> IPTV >> and set the VID to 201 for...
View ArticleCentury Link Newbie question re: Fiber
Just switched to CL fiber service for internet. First off, it's great!! One oddity: Upon install, the tech told me that only port 1 (of 4) on the fiber ONT would be active. I asked him why and he...
View Article[Prism TV] TV passes in Seattle; static IP subscribers can't get it?
Today, the Seattle City Council passed the franchise agreement with CenturyLink so Prism TV will be available "fairly soon" to fiber subscribers, of which I am one. However, I have read elsewhere and...
View ArticleNew CL DSL (8M) in NE Tennessee with latency/packetloss
Got CL DSL setup just outside of Bristol TN last month. Originally was told I could only get 3Meg, so got it. Been slowish, but steady (streaming netflix mostly) last month. A week ago it got to be...
View ArticleCenturylink speeds...
I live in central NC. Here lately my speeds has normal(10mb service) The seems to stop, then super sonic speeds to "catch up". Are they having issues somewhere that is effecting my speeds? Every time I...
View ArticleCL Internet Repair is useless and wrong
The automatic Internet problem detection system that CenturyLink uses appears to be completely useless, inaccurate, and more akin to a "joke" than a service. Just went through this again, following...
View Article[CenturyTel] Marshfield MO, what's your Centurylink experience?
Living in Marshfield MO and have had Centurylink for several years. Actually have 2 lines coming into the house (1 personal, 1 business) and I'm a bit of a ways from the origin source, so 6 mb down is...
View ArticleIs it just me, or is the C1000A a POS?
Greetings, all. I've been with UsWorst/Qworst/CenturyBlink for ~15yrs. On the whole I've had fairly stable service. But the problems I have had, were (needlessly) *really* frustrating. My issue here is...
View ArticleHow to calculate maximum rates possible?
Hello, all. Everything I've read seems to indicate that my provisioned rate is at least ½ of what I'm capable of. I'm currently at: DSL Downstream: 5.174 Mbps DSL Upstream: 0.918 Mbps But when I bought...
View ArticleWhy (almost) no internet on DSL? Modem OK, line OK.
After 9 days and 4 hrs on tech support, still baffled. Just purchased 3rd modem, no success. Here are the symptoms: -Working fine with CenturyLink DSL and NetGear modem for years, and suddenly, things...
View ArticleCenturylink Modem
I am new to CenturyLink and this forum. I have the Actiontec c1000a. I have done the bridging and connected an airport extreme that cuts out the internet periodically. the Actiontec c1000a ran solid...
View Article[CenturyTel] ADSL Line Quality And Port Issues
I recently put a service call, to have a CenturyLink Tech come out and check my DSL Line. I've been having problems with line resyc issues. My SNR is always below 12db. During the daytime hours it's...
View ArticleCenturyLink DNS just went down. How exciting
It's so ... entertaining, to be able to use some sites and not others. (due to relying on DNS caching) =============== C:\Windows\System32>nslookup - 205.171.3.66 Default Server:...
View Article[Qwest] Changing Download speeds
I'm sorry, the subject line may sound deceiving in a way since I'm not going to be asking how to change my speed, but I couldn't think of anything else off the top of my head to put in there. Anyway,...
View Article[CenturyTel] Gig in Seattle
Have really been seeing new fiber being put up in and around Fremont and Ballard in Seattle recently - and just saw today a splicing truck doing work on multiple spools and what appears to be a FDH...
View ArticleUpfront cost of fiber installs, vs profit from the install
Did you know that the theoretical top end speed for a single pair of fiber is somewhere in the Terabits per second? All that phone companies will need to do to get future bandwidth improvements is swap...
View ArticleDid CenturyLink sell parts to Frontier?
I got a weird letter in the mail from Frontier telling me they service me. I called them up and they said that I am now in their coverage area but not in the system yet and they are having engineering...
View ArticleBandwidth Exhaust
This is more of just a question to satisfy my own curiosity more than anything lol. I was recently told by an engineering tech that the DSLAM that I'm served from has an OC-12 link. 622/622 MB...
View ArticleGigabit fiber + Prism TV = slow Internet
I just had gigabit fiber (advertised at 1,000 Mbps on every part of the ordering site and in the order confirmation email CenturyLink sent me) installed in my home in central Denver, CO. I have fiber...
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