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CenturyLink's business in my area is extremely overpriced, very slow, very poor quality DSL connections. Their customers are technology-illiterate old people an
by superuser2 12y ago
CenturyLink's business in my area is extremely overpriced, very slow, very poor quality DSL connections. Their customers are technology-illiterate old people and business who haven't looked seriously at their infrastructure since the 90s. It's also pretty rare, since Road Runner and U-Verse are far superior for consumers and tw telecom provides fiber to downtown businesses.
A @centurylink.com email address in 2014 conveys roughly the same thing as an @aol.com address: a nice young man set up my computer for me sometime around 2002 and nothing has changed since.
Why is a company like this buying one of the most modern/progressive and least stodgy hosting companies in existence? It feels like IBM buying Apple or something. There must be more to CenturyLink than is visible to a consumer.
- pyre 12y agoI ended up a CenturyLink customer with the Qwest merger.
- irq 12y agoAnd yet here I sit in my apartment, in downtown Portland, OR, on a symmetrical 1gbit/s Internet connection, provided by Centurylink. They're not backwards / old in every market. Particularly in the markets they took over from Qwest.
- Karunamon 12y agoAye, that's the boat I'm in. They're expensive, around $80 a month, but they have better CS than the cable company and they also have the fastest service I can get where I live (40 down, 5 up, and most of the time I actually get it)
- esaym 12y agoI pay $75 a month for wireless 6mbs and 90ms ping times to google..