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. #Lumos is coming to my area, might have to look at that in the future.

The Register: Major telecom supplier compromised by unnamed nation-state attackers. “Nation-state snoops broke into Ribbon Communications – an outfit that provides software and networking gear to Verizon, CenturyLink, and the US Defense Department – last December, remained hidden for about nine months, and stole files belonging to three customers, according to the US telecommunications firm.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/30/the-register-major-telecom-supplier-compromised-by-unnamed-nation-state-attackers/

busybee: fluffy rambles: Trying out T-Mobile 5G Home Internet https://beesbuzz.biz/blog/9727-Trying-out-T-Mobile-5G-Home-Internet #QuantumFiber #CenturyLink #Internet #TMobile #Blog

Trying out T-Mobile 5G Home Internet

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://beesbuzz.biz/blog/9727-Trying-out-T-Mobile-5G-Home-Internet

Stayed home and was available all afternoon for the #centurylink service guy to work on our phone line... he never showed up and now centurylink want me to reschedule... and be available for an entire day. Honestly, I don't understand how companies like that stay in business. #centurylinkfail

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.

#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 CenturyLink modem, w/info on how to access the configuration page: type in 192.168.0.1 into a browser to log in to the local modem w/that info, then go to WAN settings to change the DNS.)
#centurylinkoutage #ISP

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.

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.

My internet is down & the #CenturyLink outage page is returning a
"503 Service Temporarily Unavailable" error.

At least I have the internet saved to my phone, whew.

#Minnesota #TwinCitiesMetro

Dangit, #CenturyLink in Seattle Area appears to be down, at least it is in Burien. I was going to watch the #seattlesounders lose to Athletico Madrid on tv, but alas that is not to be.

Anyone else have internet down in #seattle ?

Second hour+ #Centurylink outage in the last day.

I just found out that AT&T bought CenturyLink residential fiber in my area. I wonder if this is a signifier of what is to come.

I've had CenturyLink fiber for over 6 years now and things have pretty much been totally okay the whole time, so not excited about what this could mean.

#PortlandISPs #PortlandInternet #Portland

Credit where it's due, #Quantum made the switch from #CenturyLink seamless. The new ONT is much smaller/nicer, too.

And you can't argue with these results...

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/05/att-has-6-billion-deal-to-buy-centurylink-fiber-broadband-business/ #PDX #QuantumFiber #CenturyLink #ISP #fiber #Lumen #ATT

AT&T has $6 billion deal to buy CenturyLink fiber broadband business https://arstechni.ca/uh92 #fiberbroadband #centurylink #Policy #Lumen #ATT

Apparently I am still dealing with the #CenturyLink issue. A team lead is supposed to look into the $500 charge (and associated quote) and get back to me. I thought I had this taken care of eighteen days ago.

Hashtagging to maybe flag in experts in #VOIP and #MagicJack and #CenturyLink

(Wow, the only hashtag action on MagicJack I can see is an old post by Doctorow, who thinks very poorly of them.)

@Grizzlysgrowls

Also, #CenturyLink told me they sent me the quote I supposedly approved; I have no such notification. Also, they told me I did not pay the previous bill that I have a payment confirmation for. Also, the service rep had to add a note to my account that they did receive the returned modem (apparently my account did not already reflect this). Also, I have to call during work hours and “will be helped” if I in fact did not approve the quote I never saw.

#CenturyLink is just speed-running terrible customer service. Four attempts over six-months to get an installation. The address was already receiving CenturyLink service; this should have been a simple account change. They lay a new line across the yard; line burial will be in 5-7 days. 16 days later they bury the line. Now I am being told that eight days after installation I agreed to a quote I never saw for $500 to bury the line that probably did not need to be installed in the first place.

Fun with #ISP s. #NetTally lost pretty much all of their goodwill with me by making the discontinuation of service require a fax (to a non working number) or physical mail. Also, the Google Maps hours for their in person, unmanned location are wrong, making it difficult to return hardware. #CenturyLink took six months to install and left a modem for me to rent despite it being the same model as the one I bought to not rent one. That can only be returned by UPS and doesn't fit in the drop box.