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My experience with them in Seattle has been relatively positive; no IPv6 slowness, good and consistent throughout overall. Moving inside of Seattle was mindbogg

My experience with them in Seattle has been relatively positive; no IPv6 slowness, good and consistent throughout overall. Moving inside of Seattle was mindbogglingly difficult for some reason and involved a 3 hour phone call with 10+ transfers and several layers of escalation just to confirm they serviced my new house... but once that was out of the way no issues.

ploxiln 8y ago
When I moved between apartments in NYC, Time Warner Cable internal systems got very confused somehow. I had working internet at the new address, and was only being billed for the new address, but the old address was still under my name somehow, so the people who moved in could not get service. I was called by a TWC sales rep to ask me to call TWC support to clear this up for the new tenants. TWC support transferred me between accounts-management and network-tech multiple times, they were all confused. Took about 2 hours of active question/response. (I went through it to make sure I wouldn't get some mystery/impossible bill in the future.)
StudentStuff 8y ago
IPv6 is faster on Centurylink Fiber than IPv4, by a good 25 to 30ms (eg: local servers will be 2ms to 3ms over IPv6, or 27ms to 33ms via IPv4). This is primarily due to much more open peering policies for IPv6, they peer with Hurricane Electric in Seattle on IPv6 (but not via IPv4), HE has established itself as a critical peer for IPv6 (which benefits me greatly!).
- exikyut 8y ago
  Not sure if you'll see this, but - maybe you should see if you can find an IPv6 datacenter/hosting provider within short throw (tens to hundreds of miles) of the peering center, and VPN all your traffic! (Hm. Bandwidth costs might throw that idea out the window, but it might be absolutely worth it for gaming - or maybe you could sign up for game server v6 alpha/beta testing, heh)
  - StudentStuff 8y ago
    Heh, I do read most replies. To answer your question, I do VPN some latency sensitive stuff (and the free wifi I offer) to nearby servers as I have a few dozen TB of extra bandwidth included in my $30/month resource pool with 'em.
sitkack 8y ago
I have Century Link in Seattle. IPv6 is laggy as hell even though internet speed tests report >400Mbps. They also mysteriously doubled my service fee 10 months in. Comcast had better latency and less "billing-anomalies"

ploxiln 8y ago

When I moved between apartments in NYC, Time Warner Cable internal systems got very confused somehow. I had working internet at the new address, and was only being billed for the new address, but the old address was still under my name somehow, so the people who moved in could not get service. I was called by a TWC sales rep to ask me to call TWC support to clear this up for the new tenants. TWC support transferred me between accounts-management and network-tech multiple times, they were all confused. Took about 2 hours of active question/response. (I went through it to make sure I wouldn't get some mystery/impossible bill in the future.)

StudentStuff 8y ago

IPv6 is faster on Centurylink Fiber than IPv4, by a good 25 to 30ms (eg: local servers will be 2ms to 3ms over IPv6, or 27ms to 33ms via IPv4). This is primarily due to much more open peering policies for IPv6, they peer with Hurricane Electric in Seattle on IPv6 (but not via IPv4), HE has established itself as a critical peer for IPv6 (which benefits me greatly!).

exikyut 8y ago
Not sure if you'll see this, but - maybe you should see if you can find an IPv6 datacenter/hosting provider within short throw (tens to hundreds of miles) of the peering center, and VPN all your traffic! (Hm. Bandwidth costs might throw that idea out the window, but it might be absolutely worth it for gaming - or maybe you could sign up for game server v6 alpha/beta testing, heh)
- StudentStuff 8y ago
  Heh, I do read most replies. To answer your question, I do VPN some latency sensitive stuff (and the free wifi I offer) to nearby servers as I have a few dozen TB of extra bandwidth included in my $30/month resource pool with 'em.

sitkack 8y ago

I have Century Link in Seattle. IPv6 is laggy as hell even though internet speed tests report >400Mbps. They also mysteriously doubled my service fee 10 months in. Comcast had better latency and less "billing-anomalies"