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DaniloGopez
June 30, 2011
Underhanded change of fees
I have been a customer from the day I moved to this house, Nov 2007. I have all my billing statements going back to that date. I subscribe to the telephone service only due to the need of connecting to the Internet. In June 2010 after numerous phone solicitations from CenturyLink I agreed to up my Internet connection speed for another $5 more a month. I have been enjoying a 10Meg connection for the price of $39.95 ever since. Then this past June 8 I received another phone solicitation from the company and this time I was called by an associate by the name of Susie and she assured me that I can lower by bill by bundling the services. I explained to her what I was already paying but she assured me that she can lower my payment if I bundle. I finally agreed and she put in the order. Not a week later I started experiencing a much slower connection to the Internet. I kept calling to complain to no avail so finally I notified them that I wanted to revert back to the services I was paying for previous to the June 8 telephone conversation with Susie. The Internet connection did not improve and was even slower, so instead of calling I actually went to a local office of CenturyLink. There I had to explain all over again my dilemma and at the end I was told that if I wanted to get the 10Meg Internet connection it would cost me another $10 more a month to $49.95. I see this tactic that the company used on me by decreasing my speed connection thereby they can offer me the same speed I was paying for previously for a $10 more a month.
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Tedbell
February 24, 2011
Slower than what I'm paying for
I have been paying for 3Mbps service for over two years. For much of that time, the service has delivered between .7 and 1.3 Mbps as verified by both speedtest.net and speakeasy.com. I have called the Centurylink customer support several times, and each time they want to run me through hours, literally hours, of diagnostics on my computer to try and prove it's my problem. They say, unless I submit to this ridiculousness each time I call, then they are not authorized to forward the problem to engineering. Thing is, I've got two computers, one directly wired and the other on a wireless router, and they both perform at similar speeds. The problem is clearly related to bandwidth exhaust somewhere down the line, but Centurylink insists on running me through their "flow chart" each time I've called about it. Maddening.
Wouldn't be such a problem if their slogan was "Well do the best we can, " but it's insulting when they advertise "Your connection to our network is consistently fast, all day, every day." That is simply a lie.
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