This is the time is still will I had my twitter account so I could bitch for internet failures. As in mine isn’t working. #quantum #centurylink

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Got my laptop plugged directing into the ONT, doing PPPoE on VLAN 201. It logs in and gets the right IP address, but the netmask is /32 instead of /28, and everything is still redirected to the #CenturyLink "give us money" page, even though it shows my balance as $0.
CenturyLink never did tell […]

Yes, my net is still down. “Oh, we’ll have it up on the 4th. No, wait. The 6th. Nope, the tenth.” Fuck #CenturyLink 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 Luckily I have these on DVD.

Seriously, the old Batman series gets more awesome when you see that Sammy the Candy Man Davis Junior and BRUCE FUCKING LEE cameoed. #tvsky

12 hours and change is UNFREAKINGACCEPTABLE for any ISP to have downtime for. #CenturyLink came back around 1-2am CST after having been out since around 1pm CST. The world runs on internet. A lot of damage can be done when there is no internet to run things.

Their response was to send a tech out to my place to look into it on Wednesday. I know for a fact people I personally know miles away from me are having the same issue. I told them. These guys don’t know what the fuck they’re doing. #quantumfiber #att #at&t #centurylink #fuckquantumfiber #fuckat&t

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I have yo say, when my internet was #CenturyLink I'd have one or two outages a year. They sold off their #internet to #BrightSpeed and it's been downhill since then. Constant little blip outages that I helped them solve by talking with their techs directly. But still constant major outages […]

I don’t want anyone to panic! #CenturyLink has raised the cost of my internet bill monthly, but, don’t worry, I’m still getting kicked off daily because it almost never works.

Internet rate increase Did you receive a notice about an increase to your monthly recurring charge for CenturyLink internet? See answers to frequently asked questions here.

Effective 11/02/2025, the monthly recurring charge for your internet service will increase by $10.00. The new internet MRC will be clearly indicated on your account..
You must contact us before the effective date noted above.
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Trying out T-Mobile 5G Home Internet I’d been with CenturyLink Fiber since I moved into this house in early 2021, and was mostly happy with it. I never had any major outages aside from occasional drops due to their crappy provided router, which I replaced with a Linux SBC running OpenWRT. The only real complaints I had was that they used PPPoE + VLAN tagging (which was annoying to set up) and that for IPv6 they only provided 6rd which is a bit of a half-measure. But I was able to host services to my heart’s content, and they were pretty hands-off with a lot of things. Unfortunately, a month ago I was switched over to Quantum Fiber, which is sort of a rebrand but sort of a separate company, and I’d heard nothing but horror stories about Quantum, and unfortunately, I experienced two of them myself: 1. When I first switched, my Internet went out for a few days early on, when CenturyLink shut down the old account; apparently this caused a misconfiguration on their end which led to my network being shut off, and it took a few days (and several tech support calls) for them to figure it out. 2. I ended up getting a DMCA notice for some activities on my network, and while _normally_ it’s just a thing you can click through to acknowledge that you received the notice (after which time your service gets immediately restored), this time the notice kept on coming back every 10 minutes (killing all my connections each time), and it was coming from CenturyLink, not Quantum. I spent _hours_ on the phone with both companies' support, each one blaming the other company for the issue, and it took days before my connection was stable again. I had a bodge in place that made it _mostly_ reliable (it was super easy to run a script that would check for the notification and then click the button) but it still made things kind of unreliable, and both companies' tech support was _bafflingly_ awful in ways I can only describe as “Kafka-esque.” The second issue finally cleared up after about four days, but by that time I decided it was time to try another ISP, and the only other broadband options where I live are Comcast XFinity, who are awful and expensive, and T-Mobile 5G, which costs about the same as Quantum but have other tech concerns to worry about. But I’ve had plenty of experience with T-Mobile as a company and I figured I’d give them a try for this, especially with how many people I know who sing their praises. The access point arrived today and I’ve been putting the service through its paces. My opinion is… mixed, but generally positive. Actually getting it set up was a little wonky. You’re supposed to be able to run an app and have it automatically detect everything after you log in to your account, but it never actually managed to connect to the access point automatically. I ended up having to scan a QR code and then do a bunch of manual configuration. It wasn’t a problem for me, personally, but I can definitely see it being difficult for someone who doesn’t know what they’re doing. The app has a little thing to estimate where the best placement will be and it indicated that the Western side of my house would give me the best line-of-sight to the nearest 5G tower. This matched my experience with doing basic speed tests from my phone (which is on Mint Mobile and uses the same towers and infrastructure as T-Mobile) so I opted to put it in my office. I tested it a bunch as a plain wifi access point and then with a laptop directly connected to its Ethernet port, and things worked well enough that I decided to make the switch. I ended up rerouting one of the Ethernet outlets in my office to my router’s uplink so that I could keep the access point in my office (where the 5G signal is much stronger than in my basement, where the router is). T-Mobile sets the LAN to use 192.168.12.0/24, and my router’s LAN was already configured with 192.168.0.0/23 (to get 192.168.0.0—192.168.1.255, as I use .0.x for static allocations and .1.x for dynamic allocations), so I was able to double-NAT without any potential issues. I was worried I might have to change my subnet and redo all of my static DHCP allocations and so on, but thankfully that was not the case. There is one _big_ downside to T-Mobile, which I was prepared for: they use CGNAT for their public IPv4 addresses. This means that there’s no chance of hosting home-based services via IPv4. This isn’t a _huge_ issue for me since I’ve been migrating all of my services to use an ssh rtunnel which is more secure anyway (and in the case of my streaming CDN also gives me two-level caching, which reduces my outgoing bandwidth requirements significantly). So, I don’t mind this so much, but it can be a dealbreaker for a lot of people. Another downside is that unlike fiber, the bandwidth is hugely asymmetric. On CenturyLink/Quantum I was enjoying a symmetrical 500Mbps, which made my uploads incredibly fast. On T-Mobile I’m only averaging around 30Mbps of outgoing bandwidth, which is _fine_ (and better than Comcast), just, not great. It also means that some of the services I was home-hosting (particularly my Plex server) are not really feasible anymore, since they had the potential to use a lot of bandwidth. But my use cases for those were pretty limited anyway. I do have my giant gitea instance that I mostly use for direct collaboration on VRChat avatars and a few other things, and at some point I might have to figure out what to do about that, but I can’t even remember the last time I needed to connect to it from outside my LAN anyway. I also sometimes used the webserver on my NAS for sharing larger files with people but that’s, again, quite rare, and if I really need to do that again, I can trivially rtunnel that. On the plus side, T-Mobile actually supports IPv6 for reals, so at least in theory, I can directly host things that way with no problem. I haven’t investigated whether that’s _actually_ possible, though, and I’m pretty sure the IPv6 addresses are still dynamic. So far I’ve been unable to connect to an internal address from the outside but I haven’t wanted to mess with my OpenWRT router’s firewall settings just yet. Also, while the available bandwidth is much more variable throughout the day (and probably affected by the weather), so far I’m getting around 650Mbps, which is nice, although it’s not as if it’s all that easy to actually _use_ more than 250-300Mbps of downstream anyway, at least not as an individual. But it’s good to know that I’m at least not downgrading from fiber! One obnoxious thing is that the access point gives extremely little control over the network. You can set up additional SSIDs (for guest networks and the like), and you can apply parental controls on specific MAC addresses, and that’s it. No static DHCP assignments, no means of disabling the internal DHCP server entirely, no way of setting up the local netmask, and so on. At one point I was thinking it’d be nice to just let the access point handle all of my routing and then make the router into just a DHCP server, but that’s not possible, and eschewing the router entirely would be giving up way too much configuration on my end. So, I have an extra NAT layer. But no matter what there’s always going to be at least two (one from the access point and one from CGNAT), so what’s one more? I do wish that the access point allowed for proper bridging but given that it’s CGNAT that doesn’t really make any difference, anyway. Anyway, now I have two new wifi networks, `busybee-uplink` (just for directly connecting to the AP for whatever reason) and `busybee-guest` (which guests can connect to and be completely unable to see things on my LAN). These are WiFi 7 but I haven’t found them to be any faster than my existing (WiFi 6) access points for any of my devices, and I’m pretty much always having my various devices access each other over the network, so unless I decide to remove my OpenWRT router from the equation (which, again, I don’t want to do since I’d be giving up _a lot_) I don’t see those networks getting much use. Also, there’s one other downside to this, in that since it’s essentially a high-powered cellphone, and since I use powered studio monitor speakers in my office, I’m hearing the constant crunchy sizzle of RF interference. This could be fixed by better placement of the access point. Supposedly it’s better to have it as high up as possible so I’ll probably see about building a little shelf for it. Unfortunately it doesn’t have wall-mounting points, which would have made this much easier to deal with. Annoyingly enough, my Quantum subscription just renewed yesterday (which I suspect is the reason the initial DMCA notification issue cleared up). So, I’m going to try this out for a week or so before I decide whether to stick with it or to switch back to Quantum. I super do not trust Quantum to not be a nightmare to work with, though, and when the Quantum tech arrived to switch out my old CenturyLink hardware for Quantum Fiber hardware he told me that Quantum was in the process of being acquired by AT&T, so, I don’t see it getting _better_ any time soon.

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Trying out T-Mobile 5G Home Internet I’d been with CenturyLink Fiber since I moved into this house in early 2021, and was mostly happy with it. I never had any major outages aside from occasional drops due to their crappy provided router, which I replaced with a Linux SBC running OpenWRT. The only real complaints I had was that they used PPPoE + VLAN tagging (which was annoying to set up) and that for IPv6 they only provided 6rd which is a bit of a half-measure. But I was able to host services to my heart’s content, and they were pretty hands-off with a lot of things. Unfortunately, a month ago I was switched over to Quantum Fiber, which is sort of a rebrand but sort of a separate company, and I’d heard nothing but horror stories about Quantum, and unfortunately, I experienced two of them myself: 1. When I first switched, my Internet went out for a few days early on, when CenturyLink shut down the old account; apparently this caused a misconfiguration on their end which led to my network being shut off, and it took a few days (and several tech support calls) for them to figure it out. 2. I ended up getting a DMCA notice for some activities on my network, and while _normally_ it’s just a thing you can click through to acknowledge that you received the notice (after which time your service gets immediately restored), this time the notice kept on coming back every 10 minutes (killing all my connections each time), and it was coming from CenturyLink, not Quantum. I spent _hours_ on the phone with both companies' support, each one blaming the other company for the issue, and it took days before my connection was stable again. I had a bodge in place that made it _mostly_ reliable (it was super easy to run a script that would check for the notification and then click the button) but it still made things kind of unreliable, and both companies' tech support was _bafflingly_ awful in ways I can only describe as “Kafka-esque.” The second issue finally cleared up after about four days, but by that time I decided it was time to try another ISP, and the only other broadband options where I live are Comcast XFinity, who are awful and expensive, and T-Mobile 5G, which costs about the same as Quantum but have other tech concerns to worry about. But I’ve had plenty of experience with T-Mobile as a company and I figured I’d give them a try for this, especially with how many people I know who sing their praises. The access point arrived today and I’ve been putting the service through its paces. My opinion is… mixed, but generally positive. Actually getting it set up was a little wonky. You’re supposed to be able to run an app and have it automatically detect everything after you log in to your account, but it never actually managed to connect to the access point automatically. I ended up having to scan a QR code and then do a bunch of manual configuration. It wasn’t a problem for me, personally, but I can definitely see it being difficult for someone who doesn’t know what they’re doing. The app has a little thing to estimate where the best placement will be and it indicated that the Western side of my house would give me the best line-of-sight to the nearest 5G tower. This matched my experience with doing basic speed tests from my phone (which is on Mint Mobile and uses the same towers and infrastructure as T-Mobile) so I opted to put it in my office. I tested it a bunch as a plain wifi access point and then with a laptop directly connected to its Ethernet port, and things worked well enough that I decided to make the switch. I ended up rerouting one of the Ethernet outlets in my office to my router’s uplink so that I could keep the access point in my office (where the 5G signal is much stronger than in my basement, where the router is). T-Mobile sets the LAN to use 192.168.12.0/24, and my router’s LAN was already configured with 192.168.0.0/23 (to get 192.168.0.0—192.168.1.255, as I use .0.x for static allocations and .1.x for dynamic allocations), so I was able to double-NAT without any potential issues. I was worried I might have to change my subnet and redo all of my static DHCP allocations and so on, but thankfully that was not the case. There is one _big_ downside to T-Mobile, which I was prepared for: they use CGNAT for their public IPv4 addresses. This means that there’s no chance of hosting home-based services via IPv4. This isn’t a _huge_ issue for me since I’ve been migrating all of my services to use an ssh rtunnel which is more secure anyway (and in the case of my streaming CDN also gives me two-level caching, which reduces my outgoing bandwidth requirements significantly). So, I don’t mind this so much, but it can be a dealbreaker for a lot of people. Another downside is that unlike fiber, the bandwidth is hugely asymmetric. On CenturyLink/Quantum I was enjoying a symmetrical 500Mbps, which made my uploads incredibly fast. On T-Mobile I’m only averaging around 30Mbps of outgoing bandwidth, which is _fine_ (and better than Comcast), just, not great. It also means that some of the services I was home-hosting (particularly my Plex server) are not really feasible anymore, since they had the potential to use a lot of bandwidth. But my use cases for those were pretty limited anyway. I do have my giant gitea instance that I mostly use for direct collaboration on VRChat avatars and a few other things, and at some point I might have to figure out what to do about that, but I can’t even remember the last time I needed to connect to it from outside my LAN anyway. I also sometimes used the webserver on my NAS for sharing larger files with people but that’s, again, quite rare, and if I really need to do that again, I can trivially rtunnel that. On the plus side, T-Mobile actually supports IPv6 for reals, so at least in theory, I can directly host things that way with no problem. I haven’t investigated whether that’s _actually_ possible, though, and I’m pretty sure the IPv6 addresses are still dynamic. So far I’ve been unable to connect to an internal address from the outside but I haven’t wanted to mess with my OpenWRT router’s firewall settings just yet. Also, while the available bandwidth is much more variable throughout the day (and probably affected by the weather), so far I’m getting around 650Mbps, which is nice, although it’s not as if it’s all that easy to actually _use_ more than 250-300Mbps of downstream anyway, at least not as an individual. But it’s good to know that I’m at least not downgrading from fiber! One obnoxious thing is that the access point gives extremely little control over the network. You can set up additional SSIDs (for guest networks and the like), and you can apply parental controls on specific MAC addresses, and that’s it. No static DHCP assignments, no means of disabling the internal DHCP server entirely, no way of setting up the local netmask, and so on. At one point I was thinking it’d be nice to just let the access point handle all of my routing and then make the router into just a DHCP server, but that’s not possible, and eschewing the router entirely would be giving up way too much configuration on my end. So, I have an extra NAT layer. But no matter what there’s always going to be at least two (one from the access point and one from CGNAT), so what’s one more? I do wish that the access point allowed for proper bridging but given that it’s CGNAT that doesn’t really make any difference, anyway. Anyway, now I have two new wifi networks, `busybee-uplink` (just for directly connecting to the AP for whatever reason) and `busybee-guest` (which guests can connect to and be completely unable to see things on my LAN). These are WiFi 7 but I haven’t found them to be any faster than my existing (WiFi 6) access points for any of my devices, and I’m pretty much always having my various devices access each other over the network, so unless I decide to remove my OpenWRT router from the equation (which, again, I don’t want to do since I’d be giving up _a lot_) I don’t see those networks getting much use. Also, there’s one other downside to this, in that since it’s essentially a high-powered cellphone, and since I use powered studio monitor speakers in my office, I’m hearing the constant crunchy sizzle of RF interference. This could be fixed by better placement of the access point. Supposedly it’s better to have it as high up as possible so I’ll probably see about building a little shelf for it. Unfortunately it doesn’t have wall-mounting points, which would have made this much easier to deal with. Annoyingly enough, my Quantum subscription just renewed yesterday (which I suspect is the reason the initial DMCA notification issue cleared up). So, I’m going to try this out for a week or so before I decide whether to stick with it or to switch back to Quantum. I super do not trust Quantum to not be a nightmare to work with, though, and when the Quantum tech arrived to switch out my old CenturyLink hardware for Quantum Fiber hardware he told me that Quantum was in the process of being acquired by AT&T, so, I don’t see it getting _better_ any time soon.

#Centurylink owned by #Lumen #Technologies raising their rate for DSL by $10 on the current $55 in November! That's an 18% increase!!! #Inflation only increased 2.9% in 2025.

I was happily surprised earlier this year; had weeks of repeated service interruptions w/ my internet service; the regional manager reached personally, credited my bill for the time lost & left a personal contact # in case of future issues. Shout out to #CenturyLink lol

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CenturyLink is currently down for some subscribers at the moment. Are you one of them? #CenturyLink #CenturyLinkDown

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so the plot thickens w/r/t our #CenturyLink / #QuantumFiber nonsense: our line, being billed at 100/100, was changed on the GPON provisioning to 40/40, which makes it sound like they're DELIBERATELY hobbling connections to try and force a switch.

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CenturyLink is reportedly down for some of its subscribers today. Are you one of them? #CenturyLink #CenturyLinkDown

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What company has the #worstcustomerservice? Convince me why it isn't CenturyLink or Comcast. Go…

Yes, we have bigger issues in the world, but I'm sure we can unite around our anger with corporate greed and understaffing in customer service support.

#centurylink @centurylink

Your internet service has been out almost two days. I have repeatedly rebooted my equipment and your system claims there is no outage. Yet, your line for assistance is extremely long.

Why, it's as if there *is* a major problem and lots of people are seeking assistance.

#centurylink

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#CenturyLink #internet service has been down for hours, apparently across the #US. Manually changing our #DNS from dynamic to static, to 8.8.8.8, and 1.1.1.1 on our modem/router fixed it, at least for now. Quad-8 is #Google, and quad-1 is #Cloudflare. (There's a sticker on or with the […]

It appears that #CenturyLink has resolved their problems in the last 20 minutes or so. All the other devices on my network are now functioning. While it's up, I'll probably configure at least one other computer on my network to use the Google Public DNS.

same for me, also in Colorado -- tried to reboot the router, no luck, except now the roku's stopped working 😔
#centurylink

A screenshot of my DNS configuration. The text reads as follows: IP settings IP assignment: Manual IPv4 DNS servers: 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4 IPv6 DNS servers: 2001:4860:4860::8888

My #CenturyLink DSL Internet is down... except for one computer where I'd previously configured DNS to use Google's Public DNS. I'm assuming this is somehow key to why it still works. I've tried to reproduce this onto another computer, but no luck so far.