Tree trimmers told me Century Link was going to run fiber up 30th
Avenue. They didn't know when, but said it was supposed to be 100 times
faster than the cable. The line will hang below the comcast line.
Chris
On 01/18/2015 07:02 PM, Peter Torelli wrote:
I have Century Link and my bandwidth is definitely time-dependent. I
cronned this guy's script (https://github.com/sivel/speedtest-cli) on
my local machine and the data shows it rolling off daily at a peak
rate of 1.5MBs to 300-600kB/s between 8 and 11pm. I'm really far from
downtown and I pay $45/mo for 1.5MB/s down, but it pisses me off to no
end that my internet performance has been getting worse over the years
due to their throttling. I have no other choice, HughesNet is a joke
(tried it for a few months years ago), so I'm stuck with CenturyLink
b/c of where I live.
They totally got me by the shorthairs.
Is there anything I've overlooked besides HughesNet satellite and the
one DSL provider that offers service?? (I've checked with the other
big ones that show up on google search).
P
On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 3:26 PM, Brandon <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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] <mailto:[email protected]>
On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 1:52 PM, Sova <[email protected]
<mailto:[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]>
[mailto:[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>] *On Behalf Of
*Brandon
*Sent:* Friday, January 9, 2015 10:50 PM
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*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] <mailto:[email protected]>
On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 10:35 PM, Sova <[email protected]
<mailto:[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.
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