On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Thomas Lunde <tlunde at gmail.com> wrote: > I have CenturyLink & probably live near you, since I have all the tiers & am in south Minneapolis & on the same side of 35W. > > The CO is at 24th Ave & 33rd st. I'm about 3 blocks from there & am very happy with the speed. > > I do have to power cycle their modem (it was offered to buy or rent, so I bought it) every few weeks. If I don't, the connection will degrade or drop. I've been temped to use a UPS & cron to automate it but haven't bothered. Otis reliable & fast. The problem is likely with the modem, not with the service. Offloading PPPoE to your firewall should perform much better.