two things, its probably localized. I called enough times to complain when I had cox at a prior location and they finally sent a guy to tear up the nearest box to me and everything was gunked up looking like crap. they ran a new line from the box to my house and maybe a new line to that box too, and then everything was great. otherwise whenever it rained it would go out... also temp changes would throw it for a loop...
second thing, there can't possibly be two people on one thread saying good things about century link. they make Cox look like Seal team 6 by comparison, I didn't know it was possible to be impressed by Cox, but century link made it happen. I finally returned back to Cox at my current location and its sooo much better...
Century Link every day for over two years, the internet would go out at least once a day. It was night, somewhere between 10 and 1. Let's say it was 10:05PM. it would repeat over and over again, day after day. after a week or two, it would be 10:06PM. and so on, drifting a little later every night. then maybe every 6 months or so, it would take a big jump to 11 or 12. The later it was I didn't mind. But then it started go out all the time left and right, esp. as it got hot in the summer.
Anyway, I told CL of the reliable outage every night, they just acted like you were nuts. Could never find anyone who knew a damn thing to discuss with them.