CenturyLink's Nationwide Outage Affects Millions 105
halfEvilTech writes "CenturyLink, the nation's third largest telco network, is experiencing an outage of its broadband service nationwide, leaving its support systems overwhelmed and even causing its website to hit a few snags this morning. The company, which at last count has 5.8 million broadband subscribers, has no estimates yet on how long it will take to restore service."
CenturyLink is the company that will be providing the Defense Department with the equivalent of Internet2.
Its not the whole united states . (Score:3, Informative)
Western states in the former Qwest footprint seem to be up and running ok. East Coast Legacy Centurylink seems to be not having a good time of it though.
Suffice it to say, the sky is not falling and Centurylink is not pulling a "u-verse" on it.
My service near STL is up. (Score:2, Informative)
I didn't notice any downtime.
Centurylink keeps raising their prices and lowering their bandwidth. I started out at 25 mbit fiber to the house. Then it went to 20, then 15, finally 10.
Prices went up in the meantime so I downgraded to 3 mbit. However they implement the cap seems to work worse than I'd expect. They also require a 1 year contract to get the "discount" rates and it has a $200 cancellation fee even though I don't lease a router and I've been a customer for 5 years.
Overall the local office has top notch support people that are real humans. The national office... not so much.