People across the US report CenturyLink internet outage; company says connection repaired

People across the United States are reporting outages of CenturyLink internet.

According to DownDetector.com, customers across Florida have been affected as well, with most of the outages reported in Tampa, Jacksonville and Orlando.

User reports indicate CenturyLink is having problems since 6:16 AM EDT. https://t.co/DKPr1uLhES RT if you're also having problems #CenturyLinkdown

— Downdetector (@downdetector) August 30, 2020

However, several commenters said they were experiencing issues in SWFL, specifically Fort Myers, Cape Coral and Naples.

https://twitter.com/itswolfxninja/status/1300050266394431496?s=21

https://twitter.com/sky_team_flyer/status/1300054000973291521?s=21

Several others have reported issues globally as well.

CenturyLink acknowledged the outage in a tweet around 10 a.m. and have provided the following update as of shortly before 11 a.m.:

We are working hard to fix an IP outage and have begun to see restoration in several areas. We’ve pulled in every resource available to resolve the outage as soon as we are able and will continue to provide additional updates as they are available.

— CenturyLink (@CenturyLink) August 30, 2020

As of 11:25 a.m., CenturyLink said they can confirm that all connections have been restored:

On August 30, customers in several global markets were impacted by an IP outage across the network. We can now confirm that all services have been restored.