16 Cities Receiving Gigabit Service Thanks to CenturyLink

[exfileme]

It may take a while for Gigabit speeds to roll out.

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[Gam3r01]

And I cant even get over 500KBps down...

 

[Vote_Dogbert]

I'm moving to Las Vegas (woohoo) but I've never had any sort of interaction with centurylink are they any good or are they bastards like comcast?

 

[bobafert]

In Omaha, I don't hear complaints from people that have them. I would get this service, but as of yet my part of town isn't getting it. So if you don't have a place to live picked out in LV, I would make sure that you ask to make sure any location is within their project area.

Also, I used to work for an engineering firm that designed these "fiber to the home" networks for small rural phone companies. It would take a year just to design and install a network like this in a town of 500. I can't imagine the amount of work needed to get this kind of network up and running in a city of hundreds of thousands. Hopefully they can reuse a bunch of existing conduit so they only have to pull new lines. If they have to directional bore all new conduit for all these lines, the cost will be astounding.

 

[lancelot123]

Minneapolis area here. Almost had a heart attack! I was so excited! But alas, it isn't available in my area yet. Can't even get their 100 Mbps connection. "Stuck" with 40 Mbps.

 

[tobalaz]

OK, 2 companies now I'd rather see in my area than Time Warner.
People are starting to get blazing fast speeds and here I am stuck paying for a 15/1 connection I usually get 2/.5 out of on a good day because I'm "too far away" to get the speeds I'm paying for, yet get threatened to get my speed cut back if I take a lower package.
Yeah, not going to cry once when those SOBs finally go out of business, or when they get bought by Comcast and BOTH go down.

 

[scannall]

CenturyLink isn't a bad service. I've had them in the past, and really have nothing bad to say about them. Customer service was always prompt and polite, the price reasonable. It's been a few years since I had them, but I doubt they have changed that any.

 

[velocityg4]

And AT&T still says fiber to the curb is good enough. That's what some good ole government sanctioned and enforced monopoly gets you.

 

[fkr]

century link was good while i had them.

maybe this is why cox doubled my speed for free from 50/5 to 100/10 recently here in phoenix

$75/ month all inclusive

tested while streaming netflix and i get all of that speed and more. 110/11

do not know why i need all of this speed i have 8 or so connected devices but no website loads at these speeds and i would have to streaming on everything simultaniously and still would not hit those speeds