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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:32:23 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>westell modem 327W US made Rev B</title>
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<description><![CDATA[After 6 months of dropping down a speed and have nothing happen suddenly my modem randomly disconnects.  On the status screen it says "PPP link layer failure".  I've searched on these forums for answers but my modem isn't the chinese one that people have complained about.  Also I heard that if a computer is wired to the router and one is accessing it wirelessly it could cause the problems I'm having, problem with that theory is the wired computer could be shutdown for a few hours and the internet will still go down.  It usually stays down anywhere from 2-5 hours and sometimes does it 3-4 times a day.  So is there a way to fix it or I'm I gonna have to say I'm canceling in order to get a new one like many people on here suggest.]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-07-01 23:47:12</pubDate>
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<title>DSL Maximum speed question</title>
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<description><![CDATA[I just got 10Mb in my area.  I also have the pure broadband and am using new Cat5e cable from my modem to the grey box outside (no other jacks connected).  My stats seem okay but I still do not have the full 10Mb.  Could it be my distance?  I am not really complaining just wondering.  My internet is rock solid and I have been happy with it.

Transceiver Revision: 5.2.2.0  &#9; 
Vendor ID Code:        4 &#9; 
Line Mode:               T1.413 Mode &#9; 
Data Path:               Fast &#9; 
Transceiver Information &#9;Downstream Path &#9;Upstream 
DSL Speed (Kbits/Sec) &#9;                         8128 &#9;896
Margin (dB) &#9;                                  14.0 &#9;12.0
Line Attenuation (dB) &#9;                          22.5 &#9;10.5
Transmit Power (dBm) &#9;                          19.7 &#9;12.3]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-05-21 22:46:59</pubDate>
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<title>Big Drop in DSL Speed</title>
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<description><![CDATA[I live in Columbia, Missouri and CenturyTel just put our telephone lines underground.  The old lines were like 50 years old.  I was on the 1.5 speed and increased it to 3.0 just before they did the final connection underground.  My top speed was like 2.0 before the connection underground.

I figured my speed would increase to at least 3.0 when it was all connected.  Wrong!!  My DSL speed now runs around 1.0 or less.  

They put a ticket on it but the tech could not find anything wrong.  Got another ticket on it for Monday.  The only thing that is consistent is the upload speed.  The download speed is all over the place, 1 to 60 but if I try to download an itunes movie it takes 1.5 hours for a 45 minute movie.  So the download speed is around 1.2. if I am lucky.

I do have a whole house filter.  Apparently the new lines made the dsl speed worse.  Any suggestions.  Thanks.
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Transceiver Revision: 5.2.2.0&#9; 
Vendor ID Code:        4&#9; 
Line Mode:               G.DMT Mode&#9; 
Data Path:               Fast&#9; 
Transceiver Information&#9;Downstream Path&#9;Upstream Path
DSL Speed (Kbits/Sec)&#9;1248&#9;608
Margin (dB)&#9;6.0&#9;10.0
Line Attenuation (dB)&#9;61.5&#9;31.5
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<pubDate>2009-06-27 21:09:13</pubDate>
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<title>erratic download speed and sync issues</title>
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<description><![CDATA[I've had Centurytel telephone/DSL for approximately 30 days. I have the 10mb DSL service and almost since the first day, I'm continually having to power cycle my wireless modem (westell 327w) because the download speed changes erratically throughout a given day. 

A tech came to my home on the install day and said the DSL was a solid 8mb to the home due to my distance from my service node, but it was very fast initially, so I was happy with that.

But now my d/l speeds are sometimes as high as 96XX kbs or as low as 15XX kbs, or anything in between, sometimes over a span of just a few minutes or a few hours. Upload speed remains almost constant at 894 kbs

Also, sometimes the modem will not sync after a power cycling. It's all quite frustrating, obviously. I'm pasting my transceiver stats below and it looks like I have a margin issue.

I'm not sure if this matters, but the the audio quality of my telephone service has issues, too. There is usually background static or other noises when on a call, but the person on the other end is typically unaware of this.

I've not used tech support or called in a repair ticket yet since I don't have a lot of free time lately (who does, right?) but I'm about ready to throw up my hands in frustration.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thank you in advance.

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Vendor ID Code:        4 &#9; 
Line Mode:               ADSL2+ Mode &#9; 
Data Path:               Interleaved &#9; 
Transceiver Information &#9;Downstream Path &#9;Upstream Path
DSL Speed (Kbits/Sec) &#9;8597 &#9;894
Margin (dB) &#9;6.0 &#9;10.0
Line Attenuation (dB) &#9;45.0 &#9;24.5
Transmit Power (dBm) &#9;19.7 &#9;12.2

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<pubDate>2009-06-28 09:11:53</pubDate>
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<title>Extended DSL or dial up</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22619475</link>
<description><![CDATA[I'm on dial up.  I don't use the computer for work just personal use.  I do lose my connection frequently.  Would it be worth the extra money to go to Extended DSL?]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-06-27 06:28:00</pubDate>
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<title>Making the local exchange leave CenturyTel?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[This is just grasping at straws for me since I am so fed up with the lack of rural DSL out where I am.

There is a very small independent phone company in Bloomer Wisconsin that is one of the first in the state to wire absolutely everyone in their calling area with DSL no matter how remote, and every house in the city limits is getting fiber-to-the-home.

Independent Telcos: Did You Say 400 Mbps?
http://www.broadbandproperties.com/2007issues/december07/Dec_FiberDeployment.pdf

With fiber cable installed at every home and business in Bloomer, Wisconsin, Bloomer Telephone Company is offering high-speed services unmatched nearly anywhere in the country &#150; 100 Mbps Internet access, going up to 400 Mbps in the second quarter of 2008. &#147;It&#146;s going to open up a whole new world of convenience and efficiency for our customers,&#148; Jim Smart, general manager of the 100-year-old company, says with a bit of Midwestern understatement. He adds, &#147;It&#146;s not only about greater convenience for residential Internet users, but this represents a significant investment in the city&#146;s economic future because it provides another tool to use in selling Bloomer to new businesses. No other city in Wisconsin offers a gigabit Ethernet connection to every home and business.&#148; Pending franchise approval, BTC also plans to offer 150 channels of video early in 2008.

The FTTH project cost $5.2 million over 14 months. Vendors included Finley Engineering for design and construction supervision, Tjader-Highstrom for buried fiber optic cable construction, and Calix for GPON electronics.

As a thank-you to its Internet customers for their cooperation during network construction, BTC is offering existing high-speed Internet customers six months of its new 15 Mbps Internet service at no additional charge.
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They are able to do this through special long-term loans and grants from the state to help out the smaller telephone companies that don't have the equipment and resources of the massively huge multistate megacorporations like CenturyTel.

This subsidizing of the tiny independents is certainly understandable. They have to buy or lease all their own very expensive fiber-optic trenching and horizontal boring hardware, while CenturyTel can afford to have its own in-house engineers do the planning, and they can just ship their own cable installation equipment around to whichever subsidiary needs it next.

And yet when I call up our "Area Operations Manager" for CenturyTel, it is exactly these grants and loans for the independents that our CenturyTel manager whines about.

So we don't have DSL in our rural area because CenturyTel, the poor multibillion dollar megacorp, doesn't get the same cheap loans like the independents. Awwwww, I wipe a tear from my eye.

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Actually what really makes me cry is reading this independent's newsletters to its customers.

Bloomer Telephone Company, 2007, 1st Quarter
http://www.bloomer.net/wp-content/themes/Bloomer/pdf/BLM_nwsltr20071Q.pdf

Fiber implemention update. With the winter season upon us, outside work on our fiber to the home project will begin again in spring. We made great progress this summer. In fact, we installed most of the conduit needed for our serving area west of highway 53.

Next spring, we&#146;ll install fiber optic cable in the conduit and fiber optic connections to each house. Our technicians have also been in contact with over 50% of our homeowners to discuss specific house requirements. We will continue to meet with homeowners during the winter. Also, during the next several months we&#146;ll be selecting the electronic equipment required at each house.

Our goal is to provide electronics that have the capability to deliver 1 Gigabit (or 1,000,000,000 bps) of bandwidth at each home. Remember, a dial-up modem only provides up to 56,000 bps, so our new fiber infrastructure will be a giant leap forward.

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So........... is there any way for all the customers of a local CenturyTel exchange to rise up against it and somehow force it to become an independent company?

This way my local CenturyTel exchange could go back to being just "Century Telephone" and stop whining about how they don't qualify for these grants and the low-interest infrastructure upgrade loans. 

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<pubDate>2009-03-24 06:36:00</pubDate>
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<title>CenturyTel DSL down for all of WA state?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[This is what the tech just indicated to me in a chat. It leaves me wondering what misconfiguration or other badness has occurred in cases like this.

It looks like the peering link between centurytel and NTT (AS2914, nee Verio) in Seattle is down from the outside. And that's the only way to get the CenturyTel's AS right now.

18  ge-7-10.r01.sttlwa01.us.ce.gin.ntt.net (198.104.203.234)  124.396 ms !N  125.786 ms !N  126.792 ms !N]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-06-28 01:11:34</pubDate>
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<title>Embarq Data Tech Looking for Feedback from Centel Data Techs</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22622042</link>
<description><![CDATA[Don't seem to be getting many replies but just looking to see if anyone could tell me about their experience working for centurytel if anyone has worked for them.

Mod feel free to delete this post if you want, didn't get any replies.]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-06-27 21:32:24</pubDate>
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<title>Possible to get higher than 894kbps DSL upstream?</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22462082</link>
<description><![CDATA[I'm planning on establishing service in a city that has CenturyTel DSL.  The service will be for a business and we will NOT be reselling it.  This may sound strange but I can pick where the line will be in relation to the central office so I will most likely be very, very close (possibly less than 1000ft even.) 

We want to get as much upstream bandwidth as possible to run all the applications we will be doing... mostly VOIP, VPN, security cameras, etc.  No WWW, FTP, or P2P.  Just business related stuff that could really use the upstream.  

Why I can get so close to the CO is because our location is 5 miles away from the CO (too far for service) and I will be backhauling the link wirelessly from the point I have the phone line installed.  I'll be subleasing (co-locating) space from a local business very close to the CO in order to do all this.

So... under these ideal conditions, what kind of connection profile could I pull down being this close to the CO?]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-05-29 02:30:04</pubDate>
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