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Review by satcomlink See Profile

  • Location: Breaux Bridge, Saint Martin, LA, USA
  • Cost: $101 per month (12 month contract)
  • Install: about 3 days
  • Telco party CenturyTel
Rock solid connection.
Don't have any at this time
Good deal all around.
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I have a bundled service from CenturyTel that includes phone, dsl and tv. Phone service has unlimited long distance and all calling features including voicemail. My DSL speed is 1.5/256, and 120 channels with CenturyTel/DishNetwork. It was the best deal for my money.

member for 23.2 years, 1526 visits, last login: 5.1 years ago
updated 15 years ago







Review by tricouleur See Profile

  • Location: O Fallon, Saint Charles, MO, USA
  • Cost: $45 per month (12 month contract)
  • Install: about 7 days
  • Telco party CenturyTel
Good reliable connection and speed
Honestly haven't run across any yet
Good deal for the money, AND IT'S NOT CHARTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Switched from Charter cable modem and tv service in Feb 08. Has been a year now and wanted to post a review. Switched to the CT Bundle for Phone, Internet and Dish. Was happy to get away from Charter. Made the switch when I found out CT was offering 10mb package to my address, but was skeptical. Felt the need to post because of how pleasantly surprised I have been with the service. Have had solid connection since activation, no real problems. Got a new laptop for Xmas that is 80211.n as well as new Linksys WR160-n wireless router. Biggest surprise is the consistent near 10mb speed tests wirelessly on the laptop with the n router. Honestly can't say I have any complaints, and the Dish Network service is way better then what I had w/Charter.

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updated 15 years ago


Review by Icon See Profile

  • Location: Kimberling City, Stone, MO, USA
  • Cost: $29 per month
  • Install: about 5 days
  • Telco party CenturyTel
Reliable connection
Pricey services, email servers are crap
Not the cheapest, but good services
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I subscribed to the 1.5/256, dynamic IP package. The service was activated on the day I was told, which was about 5 days after ordering. I provided my own modem (speedstream 4200) and have no contract. I get about 1.4 to 1.45M on downloads, so no gripe there. I do feel that over $40 bucks per month (after taxes/fees) is way too much for 1.5 service. Also, I always run into lots of lag when accessing web based email through Centurytel. Don't know what's going on there, but it's a real pain. We'll see how the next few months go, and I'll decide if I should give mediacom a try.

*Update* After over 2 years using Centurytel, I am still a happy customer overall. Never any outages, and always get my advertised speeds. Some better bundle prices are now available, so that helps the pocketbook out. Just wish now that my remote office DSLAM would get upgraded soon, so I can get faster speeds than 1.5 Mbps.

Using a Westell 327 wireless modem.

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updated 15.2 years ago


Review by Radman1969 See Profile

  • Location: Piggott, Clay, AR, USA
  • Cost: $51 per month
Very reliable speeds!
Seem to have a lot more drops since upgrade
Overall very satisfied with service.
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I was using the 1.5 Mbs dsl for a few years. I decided to upgrade to the 10 Mbs service. I have been very satisfied with the speeds I am getting. I was using an old Westell Wirespeed when I first upgraded but was getting only about 5.5 Mbs. I called the company and had them to send me a new modem. I received the modem in 2 days and now I'm getting an average of 9.34 Mbs. I have always received good support from Centurytel. The only downside I am having now is I seem to be getting frequent drops. I am working with support to fix this problem.

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Review by jeepers94 See Profile

  • Location: Platteville, Grant, WI, USA
  • Cost: $49 per month
  • Install: about 29 days
  • Telco party CenturyTel
Connection speeds 10.44mbps/747 down/up
It took them 4 tries to send my modem=22 days
I am so far very satisfied!
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This was the typical Centurytel service order! I was told dsl was to be up by Dec 1,2000.It was April before it was up! I then called LaCrosse to order it,and was told it was not available here!I called my local office and they contacted the customer serevice supervisor.I filled out the form and sent it in.

They said the modem would be here in 3 days.Waited 10 days and called back.Modem was shipped that day(I was told)Waited another week +

Stil no modem! I recieved my modem 22 days LATE!

Bottom line..it works great connections are very good,ping times in the low 60s! It looks like they raised their prices and now charge more for the

modem,since May 1!

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updated 15.3 years ago


Review by douggrif See Profile

  • Location: Sulphur Springs, Benton, AR, USA
  • Cost: $45 per month
  • Install: about 1 days
Performance as advertised, Reasonable DSL Cost
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Moved from Wildblue Satellite to DSL and I am very satisfied
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I live in a rural area and years ago had CenturyTel service. I left CenturyTel to use an AT&T cellphone with 3 watt amplifier and Yagi antenna for home use and I signed up with WildBlue Satellite for Internet access. I was paying $55 per month for the phone and $80 per month (plus tax) for the highest speed Wildblue access (varied, but speed around 1.5 mbps to sometimes much lower). When I found out CenturyTel was now offering DSL I signed up. Now I pay $81 (plus tax) for an everything package for land line (Unlimited, Nationwide calls and every add-on package available) and including the DSL service (about $45 of the $81 total). In our rural town the best Internet connect speed advertised was 1.5 mbps, but I generally average better than that, up to around 1.7 mbps. Upload speed is around 280 bps. The service has been very reliable and I am very satisfied.

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dsldude08
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La Crosse, WI

dsldude08

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Welcome...

Glad to see you have switched. If you have any questions or issues, feel free to post them up in the CenturyTel Forum.

Review by blazecom See Profile

  • Location: Columbia, Boone, MO, USA
  • Business customer Business customer
  • Cost: $54 per month
  • Install: about 5 days
  • Telco party CenturyTel
Service, 5 free static IPs, High Uptime, Get more than I pay for
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Get it if you can!
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Had a rough start because we had a major storm and they were backed up with fixing that, so my line was delayed a bit, but my line has been solid, since I have the business package I got 5 static IPs for free (you have to ask for them) although my rate is higher than for a residential line (I needed the IPs). CenturyTel only blocks around 6 ports and they are not commonly used, my webserver runs fine.

I have 10.0/768 dsl and I constantly get 11-11.5 down and 750-770 up, my pings are very low, around 39ms during the height of the day. I have the wireless Westel modem and have never seen a drop yet when it comes to sync....

The bottom line is they are the best carrier in my area when it comes to cheap Business Grade DSL.

The other companies in my area only carry SDSL for Business Grade and right now I just don't need that.

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dsldude08
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La Crosse, WI

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Awesome...

Glad to see you are happy with your service. Has it continued to meet your expectations? If you have any issues that need to be addressed, or questions, please feel free to post them in the CenturyTel Forum.

Thank you!

Review by mmccrore See Profile

  • Location: Lapeer, Lapeer, MI, USA
  • Cost: $49 per month
  • Telco party CenturyTel
Consistantly reliable, well priced, well supported
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have provided great service for years.
have had the same price plan since the first packages were offered in my area, and have been automatically updated as service became available.

49.95 when 256 became available
49.95 up to 768
49.95 up to 1.5Mb
49.95 next week up to 10Mb

Within a month or two of availability, upgrade notifications came from CenturyTel via email, or local technician (which was nice) and performed without headache.

Service disruptions (on only a few occasions) in the past few years have always been met with good customer service, and have even been credited toward my account for time of service disruption.

I noticed that 15Mb is now available through centurytel, but I would imagine that fiber is required up to the house for this. I live far from the road, thus only having copper up to the house, so this will have to suffice for the time being. At least until cable or 802.16 are available locally. Nice to see that centurytel and my satellite provider have combined forces, however!
F* the cable monopoly in this neck of the woods! Haha!

Pre Sales information: 4/5 Decent enough website, but phonesales staff is not informed
Install Co-ordination: 5/5 Customer support++, and great local (inhouse) support!
Connection reliability: 5/5 Only a couple disruptions in several years
Tech Support: 5/5 Notification and usage credit!!
Services: 4/5 Would like to see better discounts in Dish service
Value for money: 4/5 Only free wi-fi gets 5/5

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Review by chelpt See Profile

  • Location: La Crosse, La Crosse, WI, USA
  • Cost: $60 per month (12 month contract)
  • Install: about 21 days
  • Telco party CenturyTel
Fiber To The Premise @ 15 meg and Static IP
TV is still being tested
with Static IP, it is a WAY better deal than Charter.
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I moved into the La Crosse area about 5 years ago. My path was Onalaska, then to Viroqua, and back to La Crosse. Onalaska and La Crosse are both serviced by Centurytel, while Viroqua is serviced by another company (who will get their own review).

When I first moved to Onalaska I tried the cable company for a static IP. I actually went for it. But I got a speed that was less than the 256k of DSL, and it required to be a business account. That was 5 years ago, but I kept my eyes open. Centurytel was in the area and it was my initial thought that DSL was worse than Cable. After a few months I ditched the business class cable service and I couldn't even use a DynDNS service. I found any server calls were blocked.

I talked to some one that worked at Centurytel's Internet Help Desk and found that such thorough blocking wasn't done by Centurytel. They did block some email ports, and otherwise only major virus ports got blocked. So I changed. I went with just the regular service and I was able to use the DynDNS service as I started my own web server.

Moved to Viroqua for about 2 years, then moved back to La Crosse and Centurytel. My new home is serviced by utility poles, and I found out they upgraded the area to Fiber Optic Heaven! And they were selling a full fledged IPTV service as well (not that web browser based thing, but real chanels to my TV)

Even though I have an old home, I had them upgrade to the FTTP (Fiber To The Premise) service. It took them about 3 weeks to schedule, as it was being done with TV service too (they were fighting a back log, and in this area there is a particular football channel that Centurytel has that the other guy doesn't, probably the sole reason for the long wait).

The upgrade consisted of using an ONT (Optical Network ????) on the outside of the home and a nearly 2 foot by 2 foot board with a battery back up, power supply, apc power strip, 8-10 port Lynksys Switch and a Westel 327 Wireless & 4 Port Router. They wired an Ethernet Connection to my Computer Lab and then an Ethernet Connection to my main TV Connection.

The internet connection has been SOLID. 15 Meg is so Choice.

The TV service could use some work. I've heard we should be getting new TV boxes soon. So I hope that will fix those issues.

--------- 6/10/08-------

A week or two ago the TV went out. This was 2nd bad outage in the last two months. I've heard rumors that they are going to do a major overhaul of the TV system. I got myself a good credit for the TV outage, so I'll keep with it for now. I got a real good fiber internet connection with 15 meg down and residential static ip, so that is keeping me in place for now.

(an FYI about my charges: only includes Static IP and 15 Meg Internet)

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Review by spoc See Profile

  • Location: Trussville, Jefferson, AL, USA
  • Cost: $62 per month
  • Install: about 7 days
  • Telco party CenturyTel
got everything promised, has not been down, good price
none so far
recommend, if you can get it
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Service: business

Speed: 10M/768K

Distance to DSLAM: about 2-3K feet

Length of service: 3 weeks so far

We have been looking for DSL ever since moving to this location. We thought it would have to be Bellsouth (now AT&T) whenever it became available because the local phone company was a "mom & pop", as is common in Alabama. We have been using Charter cable for several years, but it was often down. Charter speed was usually as advertised (1.5M/256K), but there were often DNS/routing problems.

Recently we found out that DSL was available from CenturyTel for about the same price as we were paying Charter, but the service was 10M/768K. It took a couple of days to get things sorted out with a splitter, etc, but the connection has not been down since we first got it working. Email support a little slow, but that's OK because the phone support is good. Local tech support is good too.

I would recommend this to CenturyTel customers.

CenturyTel: Are you advertising this to your phone customers? Also, please do not sell out to Ma Bell. I am glad we have an alternative, and I am pretty sure this level of service would cost much more from AT&T.

Update: After reading other reviews, it looks like the service you get from CenturyTel varies a lot with where you are located. I guess a lot depends on the people in charge locally. So far I have no complaints.

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