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| - I have used Century Link DSL for one year now. I subscribe to the 1.5mbps service to the tune of about $45 a month after taxes and other expenses.
Here's the real scoop on Century Link DSL:
They advertise 1.5mbps service. For that you pay around $45 a month.
What you get is about 0.22mbps (or less). The ONLY thing that comes to you at the rated speed are speed test web pages, everything else is slowed down to the real speed around 0.22mbps (or less), not the 1.5mbps you are charged for.
0.22mbps is roughly 3-4 times dial-up speed (or less), roughly 1998 (or older) technology.
They advertise 2005 technology, price it at 2017 rates but deliver 1998 performance.
Their entire advertising and marketing of DSL service is a LIE! CL is in my opinion, dishonest.
So here's my idea. If you work for any local retailer and a CL employee hires you to shampoo their office carpets in four rooms, you only clean one room but charge full price. If they complain, ask them why it's okay for them to do the exact same thing every hour of every day to their customers but when someone does it to them, suddenly it's wrong.
Would you buy gas at a station that charged you $3.50 a gallon but only actually pumped one quart? Would you buy a full priced six-pack of beer knowing each can was only one quarter full? Would you buy a dozen roses and be content when only three got delivered? If you buy CL DSL service this is exactly what you're doing.
Welcome to Century Link. Yesterday's Technology - Tomorrow's Prices!
update: 6/24/14 I called to cancel my service, that was a very nasty experience. I am replacing CL with t-mobile LTE wireless, 10gb, $50 month. And it works!
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