Centurylink Internet Outage 10/1/21

[00tec]

How long will you be there? Coming back home through Houston maybe as soon as the end of this week.

Heading back Thursday. Probably 287 through Amarillo to Limon

[Irving]

We'll just miss each other.

[Vic Tory]

I know I'm bumping this thread. If the Mods think this should be a separate topic ... you know what to do.

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I don't understand all the behind-the-scenes stuff, but due to some kinds of grants made available some of our more rural areas are gaining broadband options. Force Broadband, Rise, Stratus IQ, MVEA each has some grant areas and are actively laying fiber.

CenturyLink states we get "High Speed." The Speed Check shows (a whopping) 6.91mps download. That's not high speed.

Force Broadband just trenched through our easement last week. The trenching contractors are nice guys who work quickly and neatly.

I spoke with Force. We should have 300mps service before Christmas 2021(!). WA-HOO!!!

Force offers three speeds. 100, 300 and 1,000mps. (The salesman said people who get 1,000 just do it for bragging rights; we don't need anything faster than 300mps.) We intend to give DirecTV and CL the boot. We should be able to use a streaming service for TV at 300mps. Faster and more economical seems good for me. I could not stream with CenturyLink's crummy service....

I'll be 350 ft from the box -- even though the line runs 40 ft from my house. "No. You cannot just connect at the 40 ft part!"

I keep hearing Carly Simon singing "Anticipation" in my head....

[00tec]

They'll put terminations into a vault ot pedestal, then run the line to your house.
My fiber originates on the other side of a state highway. To get the drop to my house, they had to bore under the highway, then trench through a portion of my pasture.
With fiber, drop length isn't as crucial as it is with copper

[Vic Tory]

00tec, that's encouraging. Thanks!

"Vault" is the word Force kept using. I keep forgetting that term.

Can't wait...!

[whitewalrus]

I know I'm bumping this thread. If the Mods think this should be a separate topic ... you know what to do.

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I don't understand all the behind-the-scenes stuff, but due to some kinds of grants made available some of our more rural areas are gaining broadband options. Force Broadband, Rise, Stratus IQ, MVEA each has some grant areas and are actively laying fiber.

CenturyLink states we get "High Speed." The Speed Check shows (a whopping) 6.91mps download. That's not high speed.

Force Broadband just trenched through our easement last week. The trenching contractors are nice guys who work quickly and neatly.

I spoke with Force. We should have 300mps service before Christmas 2021(!). WA-HOO!!!

Force offers three speeds. 100, 300 and 1,000mps. (The salesman said people who get 1,000 just do it for bragging rights; we don't need anything faster than 300mps.) We intend to give DirecTV and CL the boot. We should be able to use a streaming service for TV at 300mps. Faster and more economical seems good for me. I could not stream with CenturyLink's crummy service....

I'll be 350 ft from the box -- even though the line runs 40 ft from my house. "No. You cannot just connect at the 40 ft part!"

I keep hearing Carly Simon singing "Anticipation" in my head....

On Centurylink and soon MVEA will have their own fiber to my house. Cannot wait. Centurylink hasn?t bothered to upgrade any equipment on my block, yet the new developments just behind me and Peterson AFB getting all the good stuff. Glad to see they don?t care about me.

I think almost all the electric coops are running fiber now due to the grants that they had for it.

Even the 100 will be a huge upgrade for you.


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[00tec]

00tec, that's encouraging. Thanks!

"Vault" is the word Force kept using. I keep forgetting that term.

Can't wait...!

A vault is just a concrete box with a cover. Less likely to get run over than a pedestal (above ground box).
They'll come through as they're laying the fiber and drop in the vaults. Then once you sign up for service, they will run your drop (vault to home), then they will send the splice dude to light your drop, then you get final install (modem, etc)
I was an existing customer with our ISP, so they did mine pretty quick.
Coax has a max drop of 300ft or so, DSL lines run longer, but get slow over distance. Fiber don't care. I pay for 200 and get like 193 on my super shitty network equipment.

Take note of where they run your drop, if you hit that thing with a shovel, it will be several days before they get it working again. It won't kill you though, which is nice.

[00tec]

I would take this opportunity to run network cables throughout the house and centralize the network as well. I ran cat5 to all my rooms (multiple outlets), installed switches, etc. All is in a flush mount box under my basement stairs

[Vic Tory]

I would take this opportunity to run network cables throughout the house and centralize the network as well. I ran cats to all my rooms (multiple outlets), installed switches, etc. All is in a flush mount box under my basement stairs

Umm....

Would you rephrase that? I don't understand what you posted, but I THINK it seems like a good tip. (I'm terrible at technical stuff.)

[00tec]

Umm....

Would you rephrase that? I don't understand what you posted, but I THINK it seems like a good tip. (I'm terrible at technical stuff.)

Run wired network connections to where you can in your house. If your modem is just behind your TV in the living room, it could be a nice time to make a change.
I dislike wifi connections, so I run hardwired connections whenever possible. Wifi blows these days with so many neighbors having their wifi, it causes interference and speed degradation.
I ran ethernet to every room in the house and put my modem in the basement. If I need additional wifi coverage in the house, I can just plug an access point (wifi radio) into any ethernet outlet in the house and expand the coverage.

A hardline cable runs from every outlet in every room to a box in the basement where the modem is.

If wifi works for you, then leave it as-is, but wired connections are more stable and not hurt by your neighbor's wifi like your wifi probably is now.

Edited to add: depending on how your home is finished/wired, fishing new wires into walls could be problematic. I'm a DIY guy, so I ran all my own, but it was easy for me because my basement is unfinished.