[PLUG] Is Qwest/Centurylink a good ISP?

[Robert Munro]

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As my email address reveals, my ISP is Speakeasy. I've been with it
for about eight years and during that time it's been bought by Best
Buy (!) and then recently merged into Megapath, a national MPLS
enabled network.

However, twice in the past month Megapath has f*cked up and turned
into Zeropath during my work day (I work online, in London). I've been
using Skype to chat with London, while at the same time I could not
reach any internet addresses beyond the Speakeasy POP in Seattle,
which prevented me from working. That's happened twice, and I am
getting fed up with it even though Megapath worked the problems and
came back up within hours. That never happened before, so I'm
considering changing to another ISP.

What do people here think of Qwest/Centurylink as an ISP? Is it decent?

I know it's a big telco, one of the Baby Bells, but it was the only
one to resist the Bush administration's demands to suck up all its
internet data and the CEO 'coincidentally' was charged with insider
trading, and went to prison, so it can't be all bad. How good / bad is
it as an ISP?

Feel free to send war stories and opinions to my private email
address, if you don't want to reveal your experience or thoughts here
in public.

Thanks in advance,
Robert




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