I HATE CENTURYLINK

## Synopsis

King rants about CenturyLink, and compares it to the superior Internet service provider he and his family had to switch to, SuddenLink.

## Description

WARNING: LOUD VOLUME FROM A SPOILED CHILD LIVIN' IN A FIRST WORLD COUNTRY

Part 2 of the 8000 Subscriber Special will be out soon, but for now, I rant about a first world problem we had. Slow internet by CenturyLink! I'm not sponsored, but switch to SuddenLink if you can, because even while I'm typing this description for this video, the internet is so fast, that video is already done uploading before I finished typing this description!

## Summary

In the beginning of the video, a scene is shown where King uploads a new 1 GB YouTube video and mentions that it uploads in only six minutes. He then thanks SuddenLink, which he has just switched to and makes fun of CenturyLink's awful download speeds.

The next shot shows an Internet speed test with very high results, and King asks rhetorically why the download speed makes him angry. He later explains that those speeds are not coming from a CenturyLink router, but a SuddenLink router. King says that problems regarding his videos, as well as problems he has when trying to use the Internet himself, are mainly due to CenturyLink. He often has to resort to exporting his videos from Final Cut Pro to iMovie and then back again to downgrade the file quality and therefore decreasing the time the video will take to upload. He says that most Internet content, specifying that Twitter, Vine, and Snapchat struggled especially, would load ridiculously slowly due to preposterous 5 MB download speeds. He then mentions that YouTube videos would automatically play at a 144p resolution with CenturyLink whereas with SuddenLink, the videos load at 1080p HD resolution with no problems.

King then jokingly yells that he drinks bleach every night because of CenturyLink. He does this while holding up a bottle of bleach and spitting out water that is meant to look like bleach.

In the next scene, he films the CenturyLink website which shows that available Flagstaff speeds peak at a ridiculous 5 MB. The SuddenLink Communications website is shown next, and the page open describes that Flagstaff speeds can go up to 1 GB unlimited.

Infuriated, King complains that his family has been overpaying for CenturyLink's horrendous speeds when they can pay a better price for WiFi that is up to 100% faster with SuddenLink.

He explained that he and his family might have continued paying high prices for awful WiFi had the speeds not suddenly dropped from an average of 7 MB/s to around 3 MB/s, commenting snarkily that those speeds were excellent for 2005!

Clearly, King's family needed to switch, and when they decided on SuddenLink it only took them fifty minutes to switch from (quoted) "s\*\*tty internet to good internet".

Another problem King had had with CenturyLink was that their modems didn't even have coaxial cables and had to connect it to a phone jack, and the only phone jacks left in their house were in King's parents' bedroom which was not good because it was far from where everyone used the Internet and on the opposite side of the house from King's bedroom. However, SuddenLink did have decent routers that could connect to coaxial jacks in the middle of the Liang house which worked much better. He mentioned that they had had to prop the CenturyLink router on a large jar as well as use a WiFi extender, neither of which really worked; yet none of these problems existed with the more modern SuddenLink.

Mostly jokingly, King complains that he really wants to smash the despised CenturyLink router but as he put it, CenturyLink is so cheap that he has to return not only the router but the original box and packaging. Therefore, he has nothing of theirs he can destroy and films himself tempted to run the box under the running bath, and then throws the box into the weeds "where it belongs." He then scrunches up a CenturyLink promotional flyer that presumably accidentally got mailed to them coinciding with their cancellation.

The video ends with a recording of King calling the CenturyLink customer support and cancelling it. When asked why he wants to cancel, King just says with a hint of exasperation, "Too slow!".

## Trivia

* This is the shortest I HATE... video, only lasting 4 minutes

## Errors

* At 1:22, King says "but with speeds up to 100% more faster", but if it really was only 100%, his speed would only be 14mbps. In reality, he went from 7mbps to 200mbps, which would be 28.5 times faster (or 2850%).