CenturyLink Fiber: Nice speed, if you can get it
I’ve had CenturyLink Fiber for almost two years now—apparently, I live in a special neighborhood. My bill has remained $55 a month, which is $10 cheaper than my previous CenturyLink DSL hookup.
The fiber speeds are as advertised, and I’ve experienced no slowdowns or outages so far (mine is a fiber-to-premises connection, the best-case scenario for fiber internet). It handles simultaneous web surfing and livestreaming TV much more smoothly than my old DSL and cable connections ever did, but the best part of fiber internet service for me is the equal download and upload speed.
Like everyone else you know, I host and record a podcast—it’s about TV, not unsolved murders, so don’t get too excited. With my previous DSL and cable internet services, it would take 45 minutes or more to upload an hour of audio (around 300 Mbps). With fiber, it uploads in 5 minutes or less. I used to make a snack during the upload period; now, I barely have time to type the podcast synopsis before it’s done. First-world problems, I know.
—Bill Frost, Staff Writer