CenturyLink Fiber vs Comcast in Alaska Junction

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June 7, 2020 at 11:47 am #980233

jseaf
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Looking for opinions on how CL fiber performs here in WS (particularly Alaska Junction) compared to Comcast. CL’s claims of speeds of up to 940Mb for $65 seem almost too good to be true.

Any other pros/cons of one vs the other?

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June 8, 2020 at 8:54 am #980279

mark47n
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I have CL fiber and live a bit west of the Jct. It works great! I’ve had only one outage due to a piece of equipment failing at the NOC. I have the 40Mb plan and it’s more than sufficient to stream on to computers.

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June 9, 2020 at 1:09 am #980286

Gebus
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I was a 10+ year comcast customer and switched to the same CL plan you mentioned last year. I work from home a lot and need the high speeds and it works great. I have never had an outage.

You won’t get the actual 940Mb unless you are ethernet connected directly to the router but my average speed is in the 600-700Mb range.

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June 10, 2020 at 9:25 am #980465

jseaf
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Great to hear, thank you both

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June 11, 2020 at 7:29 pm #980584

valvashon
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We switched to CL fiber about three years ago from Comcast for the price. It’s been great with only very occasional outages forcing a router reboot. We live in the Admiral District. We recently upped the speed to 100 Mbps from 40 and love it even more. If you already have a router you like I can show/tell you how to set it up and continue to use it; you don’t have to rent the CL router (they call it a modem, but it’s not) that they will try to make you use. If your present route can do VLAN tagging you can use it; even if it can’t you can use a smart switch and configure the VLAN tagging on it; then feed your router with that.

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