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sestrada
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Re: Last chance to do this customer right

Sure there is. I got a nice clean phone number and nice clean static IP for the past 12 years.

New phone number may be recycled number from some deadbeat, leading to tons of unwanted calls, or the changing dhcp ips could be blocked for any reason by anyone on the internet.

Need some time to make sure neither is a problem, and give the Century Link people every opportunity - including the rep who posted here - to do the right thing.

mooch
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Different strokes for different...

You had said your "phone service goes down at least once a month here for years."

Then you say the cable company in your area is "Twice as fast and cheaper. No extra for callerid, call waiting, inside wire, etc - and the experience was much better than the usual attitude of indifference I'm used to getting from the local telco folks."

Personally, the combination of all those factors would lead me to drop Centurylink for the service that is twice as fast, cheaper and apparently more dependable.

Gilitar
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Mobile, AL

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said by sestrada:

Sure there is. I got a nice clean phone number and nice clean static IP for the past 12 years.

New phone number may be recycled number from some deadbeat, leading to tons of unwanted calls, or the changing dhcp ips could be blocked for any reason by anyone on the internet.

Need some time to make sure neither is a problem, and give the Century Link people every opportunity - including the rep who posted here - to do the right thing.

Why don't you just port your phone number to your new provider?

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sestrada
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I already got a new phone number. It and the blazingly fast internet line are fine the first week.

According to the $60 Century Link compatible modem I wasted my money on 10 days ago, that took two hours to train - and still not work - the line is noisy.

I asked a century link rep yesterday to provide one of their own modems for free to help their company diagnose their line troubles - the guy won't do it.

Pretty dumb to loose a loyal dsl customer over that.

From the JD Power 2012 ISP report:

>> As customer needs have changed, so has the market. Year over year, the market share for DSL has declined to 25 percent from 30 percent in 2011, while cable has grown to 61 percent (from 59%) and fiber optic has grown to 14 percent (from 9%). Among customers who have switched their ISP provider in the past year, 40 percent were DSL customers. Of these former DSL customers, 93 percent chose either a cable or fiber optic provider.

Voz
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Just research your cable provider in their forum here, and make sure to "look before you leap". A few months back I decided to move from CL to my cable provider, based on cost issues and promises of much better service than they've been known for. The switch was completed on a Friday afternoon, late Saturday morning the service went out, (apparently the wind was blowing about 25mph, and the wind rocking the cable broke some of the wires). No phone, internet, or cable TV. Calling in to the cable company, initial calls were met by the CSRs wanting to schedule a tech to come out to my premises the following Tuesday- there were no other options given. When I went in for my overnight shift Saturday night, there were three trucks from the cable co. replacing the cable outside the apartment complex. I got cable TV back, but no phone, and no internet. Calling the cable company again, they were unable to even acknowledge the work that had been in progress, and instead could only offer to have a tech come out to my place on, you guessed it, Tuesday! Still no phone or internet through the weekend. Monday night about 7pm, I got internet and phone back. I found out that resident calls to the customer service line were not what signaled the problem- instead, a genius happened to notice that there were multiple subscribers at the apartment building whose boxes all were not shown as being online 36 hours after the original line break.
On Tuesday, despite my having called to cancel the service call, (as service was back up, and I would be sleeping to be able to go in for my next overnight shift), I got a mid-day wake-up call from the cable tech.
By Thursday night, I was back online with CenturyLink, with them having reduced my rate in a promo deal to within $15/month of what the bundled cable special was supposed to give me. I'll pay the extra $15 for the reliability, as it's been rock solid with them having thrown in a new modem for free ever since.
Sorry for the length here, but I had to put in the details to properly describe what I had experienced in the differing service levels.
Just watch what you're getting yourself into...
sestrada
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I already have RRBC at home, besides CenturyLink's ADSL. And I'm testing Road Runner's residential internet service for at least 30 days before cancelling my 12 year CenturyLink service. Two more weeks to go.

In my opinion Road Runner internet combined with the cable company's line are superior in both quality and price. In fact Road Runner proactively called me once saying they seen a level trouble from their modem and sent someone over the next day to fix it.

Even when I had Centrury Link's Business Class DSL - dealing with problems was always a big production - sometimes months of lousy service, and missed appointments. One moron tech cut two wires wire on the side of my house mistakenly thinking it was the NI.

My concerns are quality and having my expectations met, not necessarily price or speed. That means when the service is down - which happens often - I don't expect to be talked down to by some arrogant repair tech, told that I need to spend another five dollars a month to make it easier for them to test their line, or sit at home all day waiting for a tech that doesn't show up.

Somebody from CL called a week ago about my online complaint. First time ever. I bet it's cause I posted here.

First the guy exposed me to his internal policies I wouldn't care less about, then promises a repair service supervisor in my neighborhood will call me back the same day.

A week later - still no call.