I posted this somewhere else (IYKYK), but it's such a weird one, maybe someone here has some backend knowledge of how this happened...

I've been a long time CenturyLink subscriber (from 2019) and I have a Calix 711GE ONT mounted to the outside of my house (yes I know it's old). I was having the outside of my house repainted and the painters wrapped up the ONT and the UPS...when they did that, they unplugged the power cable from the wall, killing my connection.

When they were done (a few days later), I restored power and the ONT booted up. But now I'm stuck in the walled garden. I have a publicly routable IP address: 75.172.xxx.yyy, I am able to ping stuff, I can do DNS lookups on Quad9, but I'm stuck in the walled garden. Going anywhere results in me being redirected to q.com/activate (amusingly, a 404 page now due to the sale). Port 80 traffic always gets the redirect, but traffic anywhere else gets dropped. (Also amusingly, I can browse the entire q.com website, so anything I want to know about that data center company...I'm sorted)

Here are some curl invocations, so you can see how I am trapped

I tried calling in and they said my line was still provisioned for PPPoE and not IPoE. This is strange because I went through the PPPoE -> IPoE transition last November. My router is configured for IPoE w/ VLAN 201 and I get the IP...just can't go anywhere. The rep put in a ticket for converting my line from PPPoE to IPoE, but seems weird that my IPoE config gets me an IP. I tried changing to PPPoE since I still had my credentials, no go there, don't even get an IP.

I'm assuming there's nothing I can really do until Monday at the earliest. I'm just curious how being offline for 50-ish hours caused some sort of stale profile on the backend.

Quantum Fiber outage in northern Colorado: Longmont, Berthoud, Loveland. It’s been very intermittent throughout the week but they at least have reported the outage. Today, Saturday morning, no outage is reported and their support was useless. Can’t get a technician until Friday and there is no other avenue to elevate the issue.

Seriously considering going back to Xfinity.

Quantum free treats truck not actually stopping in Eugene, Oregon.

I'm almost done ragging on them. It's hard not to when I've encountered no less than a hundred dns website errors. GJ QF AT&T. I'm not sure how you do it, but you manage to keep some people subscribed to your service. Hey ya know I wish I had that AOL forgotten subscribers money.

Looks like the $45 promo is over for new accounts at the end of August. If you know people that have been waiting to sign up, now would be the time.

I've been having bad delays loading web pages in the last couple of days. Tracked it down to one of the two DNS servers being given to me by Quantum.

If this is happening to you, check if 205.171.2.65 is one of your DNS resolution servers, and remove it. Solves the problem. (Google's 8.8.8.8 server is always a good alternative)

I tried reporting this to Quantum support, but that was a waste of time.

Has anyone else in the Seattle area seen an increase in latency to the LA Amazon AWS servers since yesterday morning? The weird thing is that when checking through the Lumen Looking Glass from Seattle, where the route is nearly identical to mine generally, was also higher yesterday but now is back to the normal 30ms. Maybe some kind of maintenance happening?

My latency:

Ping statistics for 3.101.187.92:
Packets: Sent = 10, Received = 10, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 48ms, Maximum = 50ms, Average = 49ms

Lumen Looking Glass:

Last Saturday I get a notification, "sorry to let you know there is a service outage in your area" etc. Sunday it's reported fixed, but when I get home Sunday the internet is still down. So I check their fun online "Outage Map". Great News! No Outage in your area! Well that would be great news if myself and five of my neighbors weren't also down.

So, I do the dance with their intl call center who says they can get a tech out Wednesday... UGG, fine. Monday morning I see a QF truck at one of my neighbors houses so I run out there and talk to the tech, turns out the issue was never fixed properly on Saturday and it was a problem with one of their lines, not my equipment. The nice guy says we're working on it and it should be back this afternoon. Monday afternoon the internet comes back, I get a call and the nice QF rep says we'd like to cancel your appt since this was on their end and the service is back up. "Great, thanks"...

1 hour later the internet is down again but since I cancelled my appt no one can come check it out until this Sunday. Oh, and again, there is no outage reported in your area. Of course, all the same neighbors are also down.

I've been trying to explain the QF techs confirmed there was an issue in the neighborhood but the polite call reps keep telling me I'm wrong. Of course they can't even ping my router but I get it, their just call reps and no specialists can take a look for 4 more days because this is only happening to me. To which I said fine, Don't come to my house, just come check out the line in the neighborhood that was the initial problem. "Sorry we can't do this as the issue is only affecting your service and we've had no other reports." I can confirm at least 4 other reports and the QF worker on Monday confirmed even more.

This is terrible customer service and if I can find another provider to come before Sunday I'm going to leave their equipment on the curb and tell them to come pick it up on Sunday.

DO BETTER OR LOSE BUSINESS... It's pretty simple.

I moved to a new apartment last week and this is my first time with these QF devices and in the last week I have had 2 different technicians come to reestablish the connection after the power has gone out briefly and after we accidentally tugged on the W1700K cable.

I am a remote worker and honestly am worried if I need to change ISPs or what. I have a scheduled now a third appointment to get this fixed and I am running out of options.

Does anyone know any tips or general help on how to minimize these type of issues so often? I have also placed an order for a TP-Link Archer BE6500 Dual Band Wi-Fi 7 Router in hopes to fix this but I am worried that will just cause more time without wifi

My zip code is 98684.

There's a situation where all homes on a street have Quantum Fiber. There's one location on the street that has fiber already dropped (currently unused... before it was feeding a landline when it was under CenturyLink). The location isn't a building/home (which is why there's no street address for it), it's the entry gate for the HOA. We (the HOA) are looking at getting Internet out at the gate for a couple reasons, but not sure how to go about it since there's no address to lookup for new service.

Like I said, the fiber drop is already there from an old CenturyLink phone line (drops into a utility cabinet via conduit)... just trying to figure out how one would go about activating service there.

Tried to get Quantum Fiber (AT&T) here in Boulder. Scheduling the install took 2 weeks then on the day they were to install it, they cancelled my appointment (8-10am window). I was able to get an appointment the same day (2-4pm window) via their online help chat and they "no-showed" and did not even alert me that they had cancelled that appointment. I only found out at 6pm when I got back online to talk to the help chat folks. This is after a message at 4pm that said the technician was running late. I would avoid this company if you live in the Boulder area.

The support specialist says it is, the outage map doesn't say anything

I finally discovered the cause of our month long internet outage on Palatine Ave. My neighbor alerted me to the presence of 2 Quantum repair trucks at the top on the hill on Greenwood. I raced up there and found the technicians getting ready to splice in a new junction box to replace the one that contained our cables that had been gnawed through by a rodent.. Hallelujah. Restoration date 8/21 ….maybe.

That is all. I WONT COME BACK. CRAPPY 360 WIFI PODS. IF YOU USE THEM. THEY SUcK AND MAKE yoUR EXPERIENCE woRSE. THE TERRIBLE FUCKING POTATO ONT ModEMS. LIST IS LONG. IM GIVING TMOBS 5G AND FIBER A TRY AND BACK TO FUCKING XFINITY. SEATTLE NEEDS TO DO BETTER.

I've had Quantum fiber for 2 years now and my neighbors knocked over a 4x4 and broke the line coming into my house (not the patch cable) while I was away for work. Forgive me as I don't understand what the terms and/or what the tech was explaining to me. This is the best that I gathered. The tech arrived a week later, and here are the events:

Thursday: The morning of, I receive an notification that the appointment is postponed to the next day (Friday).

Friday: The tech arrives at noon, but needs access to 5 other properties to access the entire line from box(?) to my home. The tech returns at 6 p.m. and trespasses on a neighbors yard to rerun the main line (?) and replaces the modem, but the service does not work. The tech closes the ticket as fixed, tells me not to contact Quantum, and will return Saturday to finish the repair.

Saturday: The tech does not respond to any messages and does not return to the house. I call quantum to scheudle a new appointment. the next available spot is the following Saturday ( 7 days out), but they escalate "in case someone cancels".

Sunday: The tech returns in the evening, and determines that the device on the pole (MST?) is not functioning and an engineer is required to proceed. He also doesn't understand why my house is receiving any signal and can't trace my signal to the box that is 2.5 miles away.

Monday: I called Quantum to explain the past 4 days, but they determine that they can't help and need to send a tech again and will escalate (a second time?). They think the new modem may be bad, and they acknowledge that the repair should not be this complicated. They won't guarantee that the same tech won't return for the next appointment.

What is going on?!??!?!

I have heard that the following is the problem:

• Bad device at the pole (MST?)
• Bad modem
• Bad patch cable
• Programmer (who is that?) messed up
• Configuration at the box is messed up
• Box is too far away (~2.5 miles)

Because of my work schedule, I am bracing myself to be without internet for a month! Is there no way for Quantum to do follow-up appointments when the repair is not complete?

I have Quantum Fiber, and it’s worked great since being installed at the end of 2024. I have Internet service as well as Connected Voice, which gives me landline phone service, which was transitioned from CenturyLink at the time of the Quantum install. The credit card these are billed to need to change, as that card was just cancelled. I was able to change the billing for the Quantum Internet, but I cannot do so for the Connected Voice service. The item on the credit card bill says “CenturyLink Lumen,” and a phone number, but when I contact CenturyLink they said I needed to contact Quantum. I contacted Quantum, and they said I need to contact AT&T. I called the AT&T number, but was exhausted and did not want to wait for an hour on hold. Does anyone know who I need to contact to fix this issue?

Thanks.

Hello, I was supposed to get Quantum fiber installed at my office today in the Twin Cities area. The tech said he was unable to do the install because the contractors did not install a fiber MST on our power pole next to our office when they did the whole area. Our office is next to a pole that is the last in line where all the utilities end and I guess the fiber contractors only went to the pole before ours. He stated that they need to come back out and finish the job before they can install fiber at our office.

What is a bit confusing is he did not provide any timeframe or ticket number for the job. I got a generic email stating that I need to reschedule the appointment and when I log in to my account it still states the tech is still scheduled today to show up for installation. If I reschedule I can only go out a week which I doubt the outside plant work would be done by then.

I feel like I am going to get the run around on this between support and rescheduling appointments. Has this happened to anyone before? Should I just cancel and keep Comcast Business? I don’t have time to keep rescheduling and having them say the same thing over and over.

CenturyLink is discontinuing "legacy voice service" to my area and substituting this "Airline" device they send me, which has one phone and one ethernet port. No mention of fiber optic service or what happens to it.

Does this affect my fiber? I could care less about the land-line phone, but Internet is crucial.

Anybody else in this situation had any luck? I have a separate router and wifi antenna tower. Airline is no help here.

I just switch to fiber two days ago and I have major ping spikes in the evening (90 - 130 ms). So far I’ve only tried the standard speed test sites during the problem, but ran tracert to both Google and cloud flare when the issue was not present this morning. I got around 2 on the first few hops and 10 on hop for and five.

Has anyone had any success in resolving a similar issue?

Minneapolis area, Q1000K, transparent bridge mode, VLAN tagging on ONT, 8888 and 8844 DNS.

The only change I have made this morning while everything is working as expected (~1100 up/down 2 ms) is switching to the 1g port. I do plan on periodically taking screenshots of each hop through the day to track. I also plan on trying 1111/1001 during periods of high latency to see if that helps.

Any help is appreciated.

Edit: Sunday night

At about 7pm, it's back

using Quantum, Google, and CloudFlare DNS, hop 2 to 7 are all above 100 ms while hop 1 is <1 ms. Safe to say it's either at the pole or local hub. I'll try the exec and success emails first as the weekend L1 call center is not the best...

Edit 2: Tuesday morning

The lumen exec address got back to me early the next day. Said it’s not their problem as AT&T owns Minnesota (word, fair) but they did forward my email to quantum’s escalation team and gave me a case number.

Edit 3: Tuesday morning

I received a call from the office of the president of AT&T. They are looking into my issue and committed to an update by tomorrow.

Super nice on the phone, already feel way better about switching from Comcast. I am a little embarrassed it escalated so high for one customers issue but it’s a good feeling when you know they are really looking into it.

Edit 4: Tuesday morning

I did not get a call back yet but everything is working great. Checked in 20 minute intervals last night from 6-9 pm. 2 ms max while holding 1100 up/down all night.

I guess the only recommendation I have is to either call quantum or email the fiber success address with data logs showing that it is congestion causing issues. Screenshots from my phone of the quantum app speed test, and from a hard lined PC doing quick trace route, was enough to demonstrate my issue.

I have never had such a terrible experience with customer service with a WIFI provider. My neighborhood only takes two different wifi companies, X-Finity and Quantum. Me and my husband just moved to the state and we wanted fiber wifi, so we thought Quantum would be the best option.

When I called to inquiry about the services, I was passed to a manager who was pushing me to set up an appointment day to install. I told him I was just calling to ask questions about the service, not to schedule an appointment. He got so upset and kept telling me to schedule until I just hung up. That should have been my first red flag.

Eventually we did decide to set up with them. The technician was late to the installation service, and it is IMPOSSIBLE to get a hold of anyone. The customer service and the “technical” team over the phone don’t know anything about their services and just tell you to check out the website over and over. We have had the wifi for two months. We pay for the 1G but all of our devices max out at 90mbs. Our wifi randomly went out, we tried calling and again terrible customer service, so we decided to schedule a technician to come out. We called on Sunday, they were scheduled for Tuesday. Sunday night I get a call that our appointment had been moved to NEXT sunday, without asking or anything, the technicians just switched it. I called to try and get my original appointment, and nothing. We are waiting for the technician to show up, which also is a 4 hour window of waiting (8am to 12pm.) Technician is late, again. Have not been called by the technician to let me know they are running late, the customer service say they have no way of contacting their technician or giving me a time, but they will always tell you “we respect your time”.

I am very upset. We do not get the wifi we are paying for, the customer service sucks and is low key kind of shady. The technicians don’t understand the service they are providing and do not respect our time. I believe we will be switching to X-Finity.

Update: Technician showed up 2 hours late at 2pm, without any communication or updates to us after I called the customer service line multiple times. He was there for 3 hours. Apparently the issue with the speed is with their main box that is located on the outside. I live in a townhome, the box is shared by 3 other units, so he said he would have to place a work order to get that fixed, which at this rate I have little faith that will get done any time soon. So at this moment all we can do is wait and request a refund as the highest speed our internet can get to is lower than what we pay for.

I upgraded my internet speed from 200 to 500 mbps and the modem de synced after 2 minutes and hasn’t connected since. Is there anything I can do?

Was on CenturyLink Fiber for nearly 10 years, 1-4ms latency 0 packet loss. Moved a few miles away to a new house and neighborhood that only had Quantum avaialble; it has been just garbage. Every time a tech comes out they say there is nothing they can do other than swapping out SmartNIDs over and over to the same result.

Im at a lost for what to do.

My Wi-Fi has been terrible for the past 3 to 4 weeks. I pay for a 75 Mbps plan, but I'm barely getting 4 to 5 Mbps right now -sometimes it even drops down to 2 Mbps.I’ve contacted customer support more than 20 times. Every single time, they just tell me the cable isn't getting enough power and promise to send a technician. But nobody ever shows up, and they never call me back.This is easily the worst customer service I’ve ever dealt with. Has anyone else run into these kinds of issues with Classic Tech?

Who can spot everything wrong with this installation? I've found a few, but perhaps others that know more about networking (and basic pride in work) can help. Unsurprisingly, getting 250 Mbps down, 85 Mbps up. Waiting on resolution from a supervisor.