They came around last week, offering "fiber to the house", but then tried telling me that they didn't need to run any new lines - it would use my existing phone lines. I don't know how many people they've sold on it, but as far as I'm concerned, it's a scam; and the technicians don't even really seem to realize they aren't offering true fiber connections.
~ Loki ᐧ On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 10:50 PM, Brandon <[email protected]> wrote: > If you're not hitting your advertised speeds I recommend doing an audit of > your home telephone wiring. I went to my block and removed every wire > except for the one that lead to the single jack feeding the modem (about > 15ft away) and haven't had a lapse in speed since the day it was installed > (with sporadic checking). > > We're in Milwaukie, so a bit further south. Pretty happy with the service > and especially the price. We had the 20/5 service but when we called to get > the annual 'deal' again they offered 40/5 for less than we were paying for > the 20/5 before. Sprung for that, come within 5% of the advertised speed. > > I'm sure your mileage may vary, but I'm a pretty satisfied customer. > > I did note that their equipment (pole or ground mounted) is not UPS backed > (they don't offer VOIP phone service in our area) so when the neighborhood > power goes out, the internet drops too (even with my UPS backed equipment). > > Cheers! > > Brandon Mathis > KD7INF > [email protected] > > On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 10:35 PM, Sova <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Thought I would just let everyone know that (as expected), CenturyLink's >> advertising of "Fiber in your neighborhood" appears to be nothing but >> marketing lies. The first lie was that it wasn't fiber to the door >> actually >> fiber to the node VDSL service. They then told me I could order 40mbps >> DSL, >> which I did, but then later my order was changed to 20mbps because they >> said >> higher speeds were not available in my area. >> >> They do actually have some fiber to the house installs happening in >> Portland >> now. They just aren't in the areas that the people knocking on doors are >> canvasing. My guess is they are trying to figure out how much interest >> there is in a neighborhood and if they should extend the fiber service >> further into the area. Anyway, the only areas I know are actually being >> installed with fiber to the door is along SE 26th Ave from Belmont to >> Powell, and between SE Belmont and SE Hawthorne from SE26th up to SE33rd >> (approx.). >> >> Today during the install I was told I was too far from the node and could >> only get 20mbps (which they had already told me, but apparently not the >> technician). Then the second issue was that the modem they provided me >> wasn't able to do a transparent bridged connection. Luckily Tech had a >> different one on the truck. He gave it to me and then took off. I >> switched >> it over to bridge but then nothing worked. Figured out that you have to >> have authenticated PPPoE for DHCP and then spent a few hours on the phone >> trying to get my authentication credentials, which were never provided to >> me. >> >> Anyway, it is all installed but I have yet to see anything close to the >> speed promised. Best I have gotten is 10mbps down, 0.8mpbs up. This >> evening I have been having about 2.0mpbs down and 0.5mbps up. Their >> provided DNS servers are incredibly slow, but switching to my own >> recursive >> DNS server didn't help much. Tried forever to find the promised upload >> speed and can't find it listed anywhere not even in the very hard to find >> legal print. A good thing to note is that in the legal print the speeds >> promised are stated as "between your home and our offices" so you aren't >> even getting promised Internet speeds. Maybe you won't care that you have >> 40mbps to their offices and then you have 2.0mbps out to the Internet, but >> I'm not very happy with that deal. >> >> So... Comcast still remains the only real high-speed option in SE Portland >> (all of Portland proper?) and I don't recommend wasting your time with >> CenturyLink. >> >> If anyone has a recommendation for a fixed wireless service with decent >> speeds, please let me know. I'm tired of giving money to Comcast or >> CenturyLink for their horrible monopoly Internet options. >> >> Sova >> >> PS - When I was in the Netherlands I had three ISPs to pick from that all >> provided service via DOCSIS cable service. I paid 40 EUR a month for >> 30mbps >> which was plenty fast, always working, and didn't block, redirect, filter, >> of otherwise molest my traffic. I did have to VPN back to the US for >> Netflix and Pandora which was annoying, however. >> _______________________________________________ >> dorkbotpdx-blabber mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/dorkbotpdx-blabber >> > > > _______________________________________________ > dorkbotpdx-blabber mailing list > [email protected] > http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/dorkbotpdx-blabber >
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