said by flatlinee:So yeah, bump. It's obvious that several people are having this issue so it has to be something at CenturyLink
So far, only one other poster has posted a trace route; and he isn't showing Qwest Tier 1 transit, as you are. everyone else is posting speed issues, which suggest aggregation router congestion. Since you aren't even a DSL customer, their issues are not the same as yours.
That is the problem with posting in an ISP user-to-user, mutual self-help connectivity forum; you confuse the ISP customers.
To put this in perspective, CenturyLink is a "Borg Hive" which encompasses:
• Embark (spun off by Sprintlink, I believe).
• Centurytel.
• Qwest (which includes former Bell, USWest).
The other posted trace route starts on Embarq transit ("*.dhcp.embarqhsd.net"), and traverses CenturyLink transit to the destination. You start outside of CenturLink altogether ("*.ospf.t6b.com"), and traverse Qwest transit ("*.inet.qwest.com").
Sorry, but I fail to see any similar issues.