Atlantic Broadband

I used to have Metrocast and they were great. Then they became Atlantic Broadband and the service is terrible! The internet can't stay connected for than a minute tonight. Packet loss all over, stay away from these people. Want tech support, you will wait for over an hour to talk to an idiot. I can only assume it's because of all the other dissatisfied customers calling. The only other option available to me is slow satellite internet that has a data cap and a hefty monthly fee.

First of all their customer service might be good if you can wait an hour or longer to talk to somebody. I've tried them morning, noon or night and I hang up after 20 minutes. That being said I am paying $145 per month for expanded basic and middle-of-the-road internet. They seek out new customers and offer them deals for $79 per month with high speed internet and twice the TV channels I get plus additional perks. They Prey Upon their loyal long-term customers. They refuse to give you any breaks when you confront them and in order to become a new customer again you must drop them for six calendar months. Unfortunately I live in rural Connecticut where there are no suitable alternatives that's why I give the cable Pig a one-star rating. They have earned it.

This is one of the worst companies I’ve ever had the displeasure of dealing with. Customer service is downright terrible. I had called to get service set up at our new home. I was told it would cost me $267 JUST to have internet hooked up. Keep in mind they had a deal advertised right on their website - $39.99 a month for 60mbps for the first year when you use autopay. The customer service rep quoted me at almost $60 a month. That is false advertising. I called my husband and told him to call and see what it would cost to have it hooked up in his name. It was significantly less and they honored the deal. What? How does this company get away with things like this. Also, the service absolutely sucks. My internet goes out almost DAILY! Unfortunately they have a huge monopoly over our area so there aren’t many choices for internet service. I hate this horrible company.

We have ask many times for a paper bill. Also have a e-mail that we would receive a bill by mail from them. Well so much for that... This company has no regard for their customers. I don`t see how but plan on finding out how to stop this practice of their. Not a good company!!!

4+ hours on hold for a problem. Atlantic has no email for small problems. You are transferred from person to person and no one will help. They have all my account information but refuse to take money from my account. I'm on Auto Pay with plenty of money in my account. The on hold times are ridiculous. It's a terrible company. Do yourself a favor and do something different.

When my service was MetroCast for almost 10 years my service was ALWAYS excellent. Service almost NEVER dropped out. NOW since my service is from Atlantic Broadband, it is TERRIBLE. LOW signal strength, LOW speeds, and drops out OFTEN! I long for my METROCAST!

This company refuses to bill me and then charges me late fees for the bills that I don't get. Every time I would call they would tell me to pay online and then after two years I was told that "having an online account" means that I have switched to paperless billing even though I did not agree to this and was told to do it. I have asked for paper bills multiple times and might get one every other month. My last bill was almost $500. I think it is a scam just so they can collect late fees. I can see from the BBB page that it is not just me this is happening to.

Atlantic Broadband/MetroCast used to have a seasonal plan where you could shut off service to your house in the fall while you were gone for the winter and turn it back on at the beginning of the summer. The fee was $5/month to maintain your account. Very reasonable. Now they limit the shutdown to 6 months. So they would have me paying a full-blown internet bill ($60/month) starting in March when I don't even arrive in NH until the end of June. Since when is 6 months "seasonal"? Sooo sleazy! This requires no effort on their part except to throw a switch. Stereotypical cable company behavior.

Internet does not last for over 5 minutes!!! A complete disaster! Wait time for customer service 20 minutes. All they do is ask to unplug and plug back in the modem. This does not solve the issue. Keeps dropping after 5 minutes. My condo Teeca 4 just changed from Comcast to this Atlantic broadband. First day experiencing the worst internet signal ever. I cannot connect for more than 5 minutes because the signal disappears and I have to unplug and plug the modem again and again. Also, they say they have HBO on demand, but compared with Xfinity, I can only get to see 10 series while in Xfinity I was able to access like 40 series. They claimed on the phone that HBO decides what to show!!! How naive the rep, that doesn't understand HBO shows what you pay for. Worse decision Boca Teeca 4 had made regarding cable and internet. This is a rip off. STAY AWAY!

Since MetroCast became Atlantic Broadband I lose internet service on a daily basis. Constantly having to rest the modem. Not to mention that I pay over $200 a month for cable, phone and internet. Definitely not worth the money anymore. If I was not moving this month I would be changing services. Do not recommend this company.

It could be a coincidence, but ever since Metrocast became Atlantic Broadband we have had nothing but problems. Metrocast had excellent service, fast and friendly support, and we rarely had outages that lasted very long. Now, with Atlantic Broadband our business phone began dropping calls the first week they took over and has been unresolved for weeks. I cannot have a conversation with a client without the call dropping, and this has been going on for weeks. You don't expect calls to drop on a landline.

Atlantic BB has a monopoly on the Johnstown, PA area. They forget bills, will not give receipts for return of equipment to ensure recharging on next billing cycles, outages, do not answer phone, and freely raise prices on an electronic signal. Contacting Commonwealth AG ASAP. 10 years of this Bull.

I moved from NJ to PA about 3 yrs ago. I had FIOS prior to this and was delighted to see there was a service that had similar speeds. UNTIL I GOT THE SERVICE. It is all BS. 3 yrs later, with ABB having the monopoly in my area, I am stuck paying 335.00 a month for TV, internet, and phone. I pay for the highest service they have and if more than one person is using the internet, it is slow as molasses. There are several outages a month and NEVER am I compensated for the days or hours that the service is not usable. I was a few weeks behind on my bill this month and decided to see if the extreme latency I was experiencing was due to that and as soon as I paid online my router miraculously reset itself and it was faster than it's been in days.

I have been with this company nearly 10 yrs. Started out with phone and internet. Eliminated phone 3 yrs ago. Internet speeds have been ok, but internet monthly cost has gone from $55 to $43 and now is $65 a month. They are a near monopoly with limited competition in our area. Cannot get customer service to answer after nearly 30 minutes on hold. No callback provision while holding your place in queue. Where is the Public Utilities Commission when you need them?

Company is a JOKE. If you're not management/higher up you DON'T matter. Slave shop where they have their little workers take the calls while supervisors just hang out in management's office watching Youtube videos. Timed bathroom breaks that are up on a big screen so everyone knows when you're in the bathroom and how long you've been in there. Supervisors REFUSE to call clients back and/or take an escalated call. They are lazy and pretty much tell you to figure it out yourself. Ungrateful and they don't reward you for everything that you have to put up with. VERY unrealistic call standards/quota. This place will COMPLETELY damage your mental health. SAD EXCUSE for a company.

I started having bandwidth problems using YouTube and Netflix. On YouTube things would load extremely slowly at times and restrict me to a 144 p stream. So I began searching for a solution on Ggoogle as to why Chrome was slow to respond using YouTube. I couldn't find any legitimate fixes. I downloaded Firefox and had the same slow YouTube with constant buffering. My equipment is self bought, a good ASUS RT-N66R router and Motorola MB7420-10 16x4 modem. I do my speed tests and see that I am getting more than the speed that I pay for yet YouTube and Netflix will still buffer. I pay a yearly subscription to a VPN that I occasionally use for torrents to avoid DMCA's on some recent title movie downloads.

ABB only supports modems up to DOCSIS 3.0 in my experience. Using a DOCSIS 3.1 modem that works with Comcast, Internet service was almost unusable. Even with the previous generation modem, the service is unreliable. TV streaming goes out regularly, even though I can use my browser on my computer. That too goes out often. Simply put, ABB sucks!

Service goes in and out on a daily basis. Sometimes for a few hours and at random times. Cannot use home phone, or use internet or the full cable package I pay for every month which is give or take $200. Whenever I call, which is weekly, sometimes daily I am left on hold for sometimes up to an hour and 8 mins (that was today's goal). I am then told to unplug everything (which I do daily) and then they set up a service call. My life is working around phone calls to Atlantic Broadway or awaiting on a rep to my home who always says all is clear yet when I call, they say they can see a "weak" signal. No one has checked the pole the last 10 times someone came to my house. When I am left on hold I am told there is no supervisor available to assist with my complaint of having to pay the full amount and when someone DOES call back they always call the house phone that does not work even though I give them my cell number over and over again.

Atlantic Agent at 8:40AM: SUCKS! The same Atlantic Agent as 3 times before, in mornings time, won't do nothing to help me out with internet connection, "because we have a technician appointment schedule for next friday 27".

Honestly this is the best Internet Service Provider that I've ever used. They don't block any ports, they don't monitor my traffic, the only time I've ever experienced an outage is due to power related issues or weather and occasionally when they perform maintenance. I don't understand why people dislike Atlantic Broadband, Customer Support does take a while to get a hold of but mostly due to how many people don't understand how their services work calling to blame this ISP. If my services drop it's never due to this ISP, usually due to networking issues I'm experiencing on my end from my devices. The speeds I receive from Atlantic Broadband are 120 Megabits per second for Download and 10 Megabits per second Upload. I have never not received these speeds when I test a proper connection with Ethernet. If I don't get these speeds over wireless, it is because of my Wireless Router and not the ISP.

Looking for email address for Atlantic Broadband CEO Richard Shea. Support for issues with service is nonexistent. Been on hold now for over 2 hours. Tried chat. Not available either. No problem getting my bill though. Pay for 18 mbps, getting 4.4 mbps upload and .02 mbps download. Recording keeps playing how great support is. What it is is a disgrace.

The bundle that I have is very high compared to other services that I have owned. Not only do they charge a very high rate, their customer service is also really bad. Try calling them for something and they will put you on hold for at least 20 mins. Also, their website (online payment) needs tweaking. I have attempted to make 3 payments and would get an "error" saying that the payment could not be processed. If there is an error, it would be wise and helpful for the customer to know what exactly that error was. Overall, this service is not good at all and I do not recommend it.

I have experienced recurring problems with my cable service. Every time the script is the same. "Unplug your cable box." (Difficult because of the way my shelving is configured.) "Let me send a signal. Let me send another signal. We'll need to schedule a visit." On one occasion the repairman told me the problem was in the TV set and that I needed to buy a new one. Another time the problem was in the cable box, and, again, I needed a new one. On both occasions, the problem was NOT with the equipment.

Before Atlantic Broadband took over, Metrocast charged me roughly $192 per month for internet, basic cable, and phone. I kept the internet service, purchased Roku devices for my dumb TVs, purchased a streaming TV service, and switched to Vonage. After breaking down all my services, I now pay roughly $121 per month. After Atlantic Broadband took over, I requested a quote for internet + TV only and they told me $138. That is more than I am paying now for cable + TV + phone. They price gouge when bundling packages and never itemize costs.

I already had internet before they took over and they didn’t touch that but I added TV service and disconnected DirecTV and I am sorry I did. I can only record 2 shows on at the same time but you have to be watching one of them and you can’t view the shows from another room unless you have another DVR in that room. With DirecTV I could access the DVR no matter what other TV I use in my house and I could record 5 shows on at the same time. I can’t even see how the channels on my upstairs TV as I could on my downstairs TV. I asked about TiVo and they said they don’t have that available yet and don’t have a release date when they will but it is in the future. So disappointed, I wish I stuck with DirecTV instead of switching.

I called because my paper billing was stopped. I was told that I can have a online account or paper billing but not both. If I want paper billing they would cancel my online account. Customer billing is very bad. They took out my heavy duty router/modem and put in a piece of junk that doesn't work half the time. Worst company ever!!! High prices terrible service!!!

My cable tends to work for a month, then go out. If I want to watch TV, I have to call, be put on hold for sometimes hours, then get them to reset. Occasionally they send out a service person and mark the issue as resolved. Then two months later, it goes out again. I don't watch that much TV so I don't know it's out till I try to watch something, and then I have to find the time to deal with a long phone call or be home two hours for a service person. The company does not find their persistent lack of service a problem and refuses to give any kind of refund.

First off their rates are way too high for the service they provide. I'm paying $120 per month for basic cable and their top tier internet package. By comparison I was paying $30 less with Comcast and had double the download speed that Atlantic Broadband is giving me. Second, I had lightning strike which took out my personal router, their TiVo and Moca, and a TV of mine and then I was threatened to pay for their junk equipment.

They raise their rates pretty regularly and not that many choices for internet providers in this area. Would I recommend them for an internet provider? Heck no. I think you could find a better value with someone else.

Atlantic broadband WiFi customers ATTENTION! Download the app called Fing. You may be surprised to know the lack of security Atlantic broadband has. I called the company and they told me they could see my computer screen (is that legal) and told me they couldn’t see any red flags the Fing app produced. The app told me there was a major security problem and my WiFi was being hacked. The customer service rep told me they see two passwords associated with my account and which one do I want to use.