Bummer! Just tested mine (Milwaukie area) and it's with 5% of advertised.
Let us know what ya find! Cheers, Brandon Mathis KD7INF [email protected] On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 1:52 PM, Sova <[email protected]> wrote: > The line from the street comes directly into the house via a single pair > of CAT5 terminated with a RJ-11 jack. There is not extra wiring. DSL > circuit is not experiencing any dropped packets or signal issues. The > issue is speed which is inconsistent but never reaches 20/5 service. The > best I have received is 18.1Mbits down which, with overhead, is pretty > close. My upload speed is clearly capped at 800kbps as that is > consistently the maximum speed up. Today on the phone they said that is > the speed promised. I can’t find any upload speed in anything that I > signed or on any of the advertising. 800kbps is really slow, and not > really acceptable. > > > > But the biggest evidence is that the speed I get is completely time > dependent. If I run tests after 6pm until 11pm the speed is around 2 – 4 > mbps! If I run it around 4am then I get around 16mbps. So my belief is > that they have oversold my local DSLAM and that there is not enough > capacity from the DSLAM to the Internet. > > > > They are sending me a new “modem” to see if that fixes the issue despite > my explaining that the problem is not my connection to the local DSLAM but > the speed from there out to the net. > > > > Sova > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Brandon > *Sent:* Friday, January 9, 2015 10:50 PM > *To:* A discussion list for dorkbot-pdx (portland, or) > *Subject:* Re: [dorkbotpdx-blabber] CenturyLink "Fiber in your > neighborhood" Experience > > > > 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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