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<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:28:37 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>trace route</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23287421</link>
<description><![CDATA[Would someone tell me whats good or normal on a tracert. Like in the following example, I was told the second hop should be 10 or less, yet no one around here gets that low. Was also told the 2 hop was my nic card. I don't think so, I think it is on CTL's network at that point. Set me straight, help me learn something. Thanks for any constructive info.

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\HP_Owner>tracert www.yahoo.com

Tracing route to www-real.wa1.b.yahoo.com [209.191.93.52]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    1 ms    1 ms    1 ms  dslrouter [192.168.1.1]
  2    48 ms    48 ms    50 ms  72-160-152-1.dyn.centurytel.net [72.160.152.1]
  3    48 ms    49 ms    50 ms  GE-0-0-0-J1-rt.lr.centurytel.net [209.142.152.4]

  4    51 ms    50 ms    48 ms  64.91.36.30
  5    84 ms    84 ms    85 ms  at-0-2-2.0.j1-rt.lax.centurytel.net [64.91.42.129]
  6    76 ms    76 ms    76 ms  206.51.71.213
  7    86 ms    77 ms    77 ms  bb-lcrswixc-jx9-02-ae0.core.lightcore.net [206.51.69.74]
  8    78 ms    76 ms    98 ms  bb-chcgilwu-jx9-01-xe-1-1-0.core.lightcore.net [206.51.69.50]
  9    94 ms    93 ms    92 ms  exchange-cust1.ch1.equinix.net [206.223.119.16]

 10   103 ms   101 ms   101 ms  as-2.pat1.da3.yahoo.com [216.115.96.41]
 11   106 ms   102 ms   111 ms  ae1-p130.msr2.mud.yahoo.com [216.115.104.85]
 12   103 ms   104 ms   102 ms  te-9-1.fab2-a-gdc.mud.yahoo.com [209.191.78.143]

 13   132 ms   105 ms   101 ms  UNKNOWN-209-191-78-169.yahoo.com [209.191.78.169]

 14   101 ms   104 ms   102 ms  f1.www.vip.mud.yahoo.com [209.191.93.52]

Trace complete.

C:\Documents and Settings\HP_Owner>]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-11-03 21:34:33</pubDate>
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<title>CTL 10Mbps Upgrade</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23304797</link>
<description><![CDATA[Hello, I'm going to CTL 10 meg on Monday and I have a 6100 Rev C modem.

I have read many times that the Westell 6100 Rev E and later modems support ADSL2+, and hence 10 meg service. However, in Westell's datasheet (http://www.westell.com/images/products/liteline.pdf), In the first paragraph it says "All are capable of supporting faster ADSL standards like ADSL2 and ADSL2+ with software upgrades."

Does that mean I can grab a firmware image somewhere, load it onto my Rev C 6100 and it will run at 10 meg? If so where is the best place to grab the firmware? I only found AT&T / Verizon firmware so far. If I leave everything alone will it run at 8 meg? If I call CTL will they give me a link to new f/w perhaps? Thanks to anyone who has some insight for me.]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-11-06 23:28:29</pubDate>
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<title>New to C Link; pages not loading properly</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23311507</link>
<description><![CDATA[Microsoft Windows XP Pro
Version 2002
Service Pack 3
AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3200+
2.00 GHz, 1.00 GB of RAM

I've just had CenturyLink dsl for a couple of days.  My speed is good and if I can get this problem worked out, I think I'll be very happy with it. 

I'm finding that some (~25%) pages will not load on a first click...some will load load on a 2nd, 3rd and/or stopping the load and clicking again. A few won't load at all until I restart Firefox. Also, the little "progress wheel" on the tab will not stop turning even after the page has loaded. A few times the tab has frozen and I can't do anything but close the application. Firefox then appears closed but I get an error message that it is still running if I try to restart it. I then have to restart Windows. Ctl,Alt,Del shows nothing running.   I had never had a problem with pages loading with the cable.  (There was a connection reliability problem...that's why I changed)

I spoke to CenturyLink's tech for quite some time night before last. He checked all my resources and everything was fine. He had me restart Windows, turn off the modem and restart. I reinstalled Firefox with no difference. Today, after connecting via live chat, I tried installing a previous version of FF with the same results.

At first I also tried logging on through Internet Explorer, thinking if it's a Firefox problem that I wouldn't encounter the same problems on IE, but it's the same.

The tech wants me to borrow a laptop, connect the modem with it, install FF and see if I have the same problems with a different computer.

I will borrow a laptop, but in the meantime, I'm wondering if anyone else has had a history of this problem?  Could it be a mouse problem that has popped up coincidentally at the same time I switched to dsl? I'm flummoxed. :)

If anyone has any ideas on what might be going on, I'd appreciate it. Is there anything else I should try or just check back in after I try another computer? Thanks in advance.

Pam]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-11-08 19:11:39</pubDate>
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<title>Eastern Washington - Prime Time Issues</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23317523</link>
<description><![CDATA[New to these forums, hello :)

In a similar post by jeffo, I'm having crazy issues around prime time. Didn't want to post there, since it was a different geographic location.

I'm on a usual 8megabit down - .75 megabit up connection, which works fine, untill around 4pm - and then things start to do down hill.

Just from speedtest.net, From 4-5pm it stabilizes around 5-7 megabit down... 6-9pm it stabilizes around 1-3 megabit down. Upload stays consistent.

In the morning when I wake up ~8am, everything is fine again, and it repeats the next late afternoon.

Does anyone else have similar problems in the area? I spoke with a CenturyLink tech, he said "everything is fine"... Obviously its not =/ ... but when he checked .. it was the morning and it was...OK... *sigh*]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-11-09 21:51:21</pubDate>
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<title>Connecting a router to CenturyTel Fiber</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23303527</link>
<description><![CDATA[My Aunt moved into a new home thats serviced by CenturyTel fiber connection in the Wright City, Missouri area.

When they installed the data line from the box outside they pretty much just drilled a hole from outside directly into the computer room, my aunt was pissed about that because they said thats the "only way" but thats another story. So its just a ethernet line from the outside box directly into the computer and they use Windows to dial/connect to the net using PPPoE. 

That all works fine a dandy but she would like to connect a wireless router. I drove 45 minutes(traffic) to her house because she couldn't get her Linksys WRT54G to work with it. I eventually gave up after 1 1/2 hours myself.

I set the router up the exact same way the computer was set to connect, got no connection. Went through the router setup forwards and backwards, tried cloning the NIC's MAC address, tried setting to just DHCP from the data line, checked username and passwords, but the router just could not connect. Sometimes I'd get an error about not being able to retrieve a IP address(PPPoE mode).

If the computer is set up to connect using PPPoE and requires them to manually press the connect button everytime doesn't that mean that the modem, if there even is one, is already set into a bridged mode? I have no idea on how to check settings for the modem since I can't even get access to it in the box to find the model number or any info at all.

Any advise is greatly welcomed.]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-11-06 17:49:59</pubDate>
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<title>700mhz for low-population broadband service areas?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[This is a followup to the old thread that apparently can't be replied to: CenturyTel http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r22684348-centrytel-wireless-game-plan

I notice something rather interesting while looking at the planned 700mhz service area map on CenturyTel's web site. The wireless regions generally seem to correspond to lower population areas of the USA. Compare these two maps:

  
(from http://www.centurytelembarqmerger.com/aboutmerger/index.html )

  
(from http://www.mapofusa.net/us-population-density-map.htm )

The Michigan/UP area is fairly low density and much of it is National Forest land
The Colorado/New Mexico area is low density... covering the Comache National Grassland and the Rio Grande National Forest.
The whole Missouri/Arkansas/Lousiana area is medium/low density, neatly covering the low-density zone between Kansas City and St Louis, and a little hole punched out around Montgomery, Alabama
Western Montana is a huge swath of no-man's land, as is eastern Washington state.

There is very little overlap of the 700mhz regions with the deep-red population zones of the lower map.

So it would appear that the game plan for CenturyTel CenturyLink is that for the customers who are out in the sticks, and really expensive to connect on DSL... they're going to get 700mhz broadband instead.]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-11-07 01:46:20</pubDate>
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<title>taxes and fees CenturyLink&#x27;s naked/dry DSL?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[I live in St. Peters, MO and am considering switching from Charter cable high speed internet (5Mbps down/512Kbps up) for $47.99/month to CenturyLink's naked/dry DSL (1.5Mbps down/? up) which is priced -- at their GiveMePure.com website -- for $29.95/month.  One thing that is keeping me from switching is that I hear that even their naked/dry DSL service has a lot of phone-line related taxes and fees -- adding up close to $7/month.  I have my own DSL modem (a speedstream 3100) so am just interested in learning about the other taxes and fees that CenturyLink charges (on naked/dry DSL accounts).  Can anyone chime in and confirm or deny what I've heard?]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-10-27 11:03:10</pubDate>
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<title>Scheduled Maintenance???</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23303185</link>
<description><![CDATA[I can't say that it's necessarily every month; but for some reason it seems like on the first Thursday night/Friday morning of the month for a hour or two that we have issues.  Like I said I can't say it's every month for sure; but it sure seems that way (including early this morning).

I happened to be asleep for a change; but my roommate remarked that he had issues from around 2am-4am Central time (which seems like what I've seen before).  

If it's some sort of scheduled maintenance then I understand that (although if so is there a listing of that somewhere?  And if not, I wish there was).  

Just wondering.  We called tech support this morning; and they said they had no record of any outage (we also had one earlier in the week from around 11pm-1am Central).  They wanted to send somebody out which I felt was a waste of time as the problems sure looked to be on their end and not ours.]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-11-06 16:31:20</pubDate>
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<title>Increased latency</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Wondering if anyone else is seeing increased latency?  I can't remember exactly when I first noticed the change.  It was maybe about a week ago.  At first I thought it was an isolated case but it's now constant.

Tracing route to www-real.wa1.b.yahoo.com [69.147.76.15]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    1 ms    1 ms    1 ms  192.168.0.1 
  2    17 ms    14 ms    15 ms  REMOVED 
  3    19 ms    16 ms    13 ms  g0-3-backup-rt.rl.centurytel.net [207.119.246.98] 
  4    29 ms    17 ms    18 ms  s1-rt.cri.centurytel.net [207.230.215.41] 
  5   110 ms   122 ms   108 ms  206.51.71.205 
  6   109 ms   105 ms   118 ms  bb-lcrswixc-jx9-02-ae0.core.lightcore.net [206.51.69.74] 
  7   109 ms   101 ms   100 ms  bb-chcgilwu-jx9-01-xe-1-1-0.core.lightcore.net [206.51.69.50] 
  8   113 ms   116 ms   118 ms  exchange-cust1.ch1.equinix.net [206.223.119.16] 
  9   141 ms   142 ms   137 ms  as-0.pat1.dcp.yahoo.com [216.115.101.152] 
 10   139 ms   141 ms   148 ms  ae1-p170.msr2.re1.yahoo.com [216.115.108.29] 
 11    55 ms    49 ms    53 ms  te-9-4.bas-a2.re1.yahoo.com [66.196.112.203] 
 12   133 ms   133 ms   129 ms  f1.www.vip.re1.yahoo.com [69.147.76.15] 

Trace complete.

Everything cooks along until it hits 206.51.71.205.

Normally my ping is in the  60ms range and now it's more than doubled and I can tell a difference in online gaming.

IP Details
 
Details for IP Address: 206.51.71.205

 
General Information
Hostname: 206.51.71.205 
ISP: LightCore, a CenturyTelCompany 
Organization: LightCore, a CenturyTelCompany 
Proxy: None detected 
Type: Corporate 
Blacklist:  

Geo-Location Information

Country: United States   
State/Region: MO 
City: Columbia 
Latitude: 38.9383 
Longitude: -92.2991 
Area Code: 573 

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<pubDate>2009-11-03 19:43:17</pubDate>
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<title>DSL Westell 6100 Line Specs</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23272287</link>
<description><![CDATA[Transceiver Revision: 03.00.04.07  &#9; 
Vendor ID Code:        4 &#9; 
Line Mode:               G.DMT-Mode &#9; 
Data Path:               Fast &#9; 
Transceiver Information &#9;Down Stream Path &#9;Up Stream Path
DSL Speed (Kbits/Sec) &#9;               608 &#9;&#9;          320
Margin (db) &#9;&#9;              28.0 &#9;&#9;          20.0
Line Attenuation (db) &#9;              57.0 &#9;&#9;          31.5
Transmit Power (db/Hz) &#9;      14.0 &#9;&#9;          11.7

s/n is good `down stream path attenuation 57db?!?

Help & thanks much!]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-10-31 20:20:08</pubDate>
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