Atlantic Broadband

Atlantic Broadband internet service is not dependable. On too many occasions on Friday, February 10th and again on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday my internet connection and phone service to my home have been interrupted for increments of 15-30 minutes, sometimes several times during the day. Attempting to call ABB during these times is impossible… It’s one indefinite hold. I spend the summer in Massachusetts and Comcast (my internet/phone service provider) is by far more dependable so I know it’s possible to have a cable company actually provide consistent service. Many times in the past I wanted to write and complain about Atlantic BB, but as is so often the case once the service is repaired it’s just easier to move on and forget the inadequate and inefficient service that ABB provides.

I am forced to use Atlantic Broadband because they are the cable company the building offers. Their customer service is abysmal. On top of waiting hours for a callback you have to wait over a week to get someone to come to your apartment. In one month I had 2 defective boxes. I called on Monday Jan 30, spent an hour on the phone with a "tech support" agent even after I explained I had already attempted a reset, and the soonest I could get service is Feb 11? That's two weeks. They refuse to ship a new cable box to me which would be the solution. The only option I would have is to drive 40 minutes to pick up a new box. I am truly disgusted. The worst customer service I have ever experienced.

Atlantic broadband needs a class action lawsuit filed against them. From the long waits on hold for customer service to the quality of service. When I set up service I was offered 120 gigs of data for $30 a month, which I later found out wasn't offered to my area. My internet automatically didn't work for 2 days. When the technician came out he told me my router was old (the 1 the previous man had just put in telling me it was brand new). Once the router was changed my service was ok for a couple days and only a couple days. Since then, about 6 months ago, my service has sucked!! Hours long hold periods to get ahold of customer service only to be told, or offered higher package deals. I've turned down every one stating if I can't get the quality I'm paying for now why would I want to pay more for the same quality of service.

Frequent outages used to be addressed promptly by this company but during the past year I have been forced to wait in excess of 60 minutes plus on the phone and still no response; repeated attempt resulted in 0 connection. Only when I called billing did I get to talk to someone who initiated a service call order - thank you. This is a totally unacceptable handling of customer's problem.

I have been trying to reach Atlantic Broadband to complain about an issue for three months now. I refuse to devote more than an hour waiting on each call so I have yet to reach them. As I have gone from wanting to inquire to wanting to cancel my inability to reach anyone has my account now in an overdue status which I refuse to be responsible for since I can't reach anyone to cancel the service!! AARRGGHHHH!!! It is amazing they are still in business. I don't think I have ever experienced a company run as poorly as this one. They apparently never read these pages.

Have been on hold for 60 minutes each for 3 service calls. Was still on hold when I drove to their location. Horrible Muzak and all. They always have "higher average wait times". Finally received a call back and when I asked for a manager, hey hung up. Hard as it is for me to believe, they have a customer service manager. That has to be the funniest thing ever inside their walls. There is of course, no way to speak or right that person, so I'll trash them here. Comcast or VZ won't build to my area, so we are treated to a junior varsity experience with everything. Will be terminating service as soon as I can get Dish to visit.

I received a flyer promoting high speed internet at $29.99 a month. I contacted them and was told that there was a charge of $10.00 a month for each piece of equipment (i.e. modem, router, etc.). I signed up and was told that I had to pay an $85.00 deposit. When I got my service installed it didn't work the first week. And of course they had an 2 hr phone wait before I could speak with anyone. They did finally come and fix the problem. When I went to check my first bill it was for almost $80.00. I asked them why was it so high. The Customer Service Rep told me that I was being charged $49.99 a month because the $29.99 a month rate was only for the first year. I explained to her that I had only been a customer for 1 month. She saw that in her notes and told me that a credit would be made to my acct.

Today 12/7 Atlantic Broadband came to my building Turnberry on the Green to give us new digital boxes. The moment they started to do that my phone stopped working. I told 2 of the Altantic Broadband representatives what happened. Well they did not understand English, I called and was on hold one hour and 12 minutes. I could not hold so long so I hung up. I called again and I am on hold 45 minutes. AB never calls me back except maybe 24 hours later. I can call Customer Service even at 1 a.m. and it is always, "Due to higher calls than usual..." If not even at 1 a.m. you are put on hold forever... worse the worse.

If you call Atlantic Broadband to start new service you will get in touch with a person in less than 5 minutes. If you have a problem with your service, or even have a simple technical question about your service... Forget about it. I've been trying to reach them for over a week. They put customers on permanent hold. The first time I called I was put on hold and left my phone on speaker while I worked around the house, 2 hrs no one answered. The second time I called, they offered to put me on a call back list, three days later nothing. Today I have been on hold for an accumulative 2.5 hrs. I have needed to call them Various times over the last 3 years, and EVERY time they were "Experiencing a high volume of callers". Even when my call weren't outage related. I'd recommend staying far away from this company, but if you're in the same boat as me... then you have no choice.

I am highly unimpressed with Atlantic Broadband. I can not get any representative on the phone without an hour wait and then when I do I get hung up on multiple times. This is poor customer service and if this wasn't the only service available in my area I would cancel my service and go elsewhere. I have never felt with such lack of customer service ever.

I've been on the phone now with customer service, just to set up a voicemail for business phone for 43 minutes as of now. Talked to two customer service reps already... This is freakin' unacceptable. Very poor customer service!!

Whenever I have a problem with cable (which is several times a year) I call into the ABB service. After a long wait to speak to someone, I explain the problem. I have to make an appointment to be home even though I explain that the last one dozen times I have called in with a problem, the problem was solved outside my home. But in order for me to get service, I have to be inconvenienced and make myself available for a 4-hour block of time. Even though the problem will be outside my home, they won't come out to check the problem unless I am available to them. Therefore, the burden of getting the service I pay for, becomes an additional burden. And they continue to collect their money each money whether the service is good or not. There is no penalty for giving bad service. Something is wrong with the system.

Bad experience! Moved to another state so I cancelled by 8-31-2016 and made a payment, then 0 balance. Requested and authorized to deliver box following day due to rain, which I did on 9-1-16 before 12 noon. A month and 20 days later received a service cancellation notice via email that I already did and collecting almost $200. Ended up paying $8.00. They forgot I cancelled the service back in 8-31-16.

I signed up for Atlantic Broadband after being dissatisfied with Frontier. I received a promotion for 100 Mbps for 29.99 per month for a year. The service had been spotty (went in and out, lost signal a few times a day) and after MANY phone calls, they sent out a technician. The technician said it was a "coding issue" and could not fix the problem. It still isn't fixed, and my speed varies between 8-20 Mbps. Calling customer service is terrible. When calling hold times are ridiculous (I am on hold now as I type. Currently have been waiting 1 hour 17 minutes). Giving them one more try to fix it today and then I am switching to DishNet, which is my only other choice in my area. Not thrilled about DishNet's speed or price, but I have them for TV and customer service is good at least.

For the past 3 weeks, we lose internet, cable, and phone for hours. Then last week we lost internet and phone for at least 3 hours. Today (Sept. 14) we are not able to log into our email. We run a business through our home and email is very important. Yes, I called and yes they have had a automated message up all day about outages all over the east coast. I have typed my password until I felt my fingers would bleed. This company has become junk. When we first signed on, no complaints. But this last month, nothing but trouble. Once my internet is up and running and I get past Atlantic Broadband homepage the computer works fine. I have no choice but to use this carrier, but if I can ever switch, I AM GONE.

They keep raising my monthly bill by adding sports surcharges or who knows what, and I don't care for sports at all, but there's no opt out option, take it or leave it, like everything else. They're a monopoly where I live, I'm in a condo and I don't have the choice to install a dish or anything else. The association won't allow it. I am seriously thinking of getting Sling TV but the only company that provides internet service in my area is AT&T and they require a contract which I'm not happy about either, because if I don't like their service I'm stuck with them for a full year.

Horrible, horrible company that has Talbot county captive. They never showed up for an appointment. Waste of 6 hours. I am on hold for 49 minutes. Horrible horrible. I will be changing to anything else. They honestly do not care.

I am so very tired of calling Atlantic Broadband to have them troubleshoot my Cable internet access. Sunday morning 9.11.16, 8 am I'm calling AGAIN. I am not sure the number of times tech people have been here and I have had to miss work to be here... 5 times? 6? in the last year plus numerous calls in about my poor service that I pay for - a couple months ago when calling about the poor service I was told the modem was 3 generations old and why didn't I have a newer modem? Well it's because no one from Atlantic Broadband told me there was a problem with the one I had. This is getting old. This is a monopoly as there are no other cable providers in the area. In climbing the food chain who gets contacted next to complain about the poor service from ATLANTIC BROADBAND? FCC? WV Attorney General? Any help would be appreciated.

I tried requesting cable and internet from the company in Augusta, GA. Called WOW - 1-855-478-8148. Maybe if we all call them they may but out ABB and add 50K+ users in the area. I always have slow service and they want $80 a month just for internet.

This is the 4 time I have called them. The wait time is crazy. First time 3 hours set up for a call back no one called in 6 1/2 hours. Now this is phone service!!! They have been out 4 times!!! Changed everything in the house! Moved the phones, got rid of the old wall phone, 2 new modems, new wiring! And the computer keeps on freezing. They tell me the supervisor knows about it. It's some kind of SDR contraption on the pole. This is getting old. I'm ready to go back to Verizon. If you're thinking about doing a bundle with Atlantic Broad Band please think again. All they do is raise the rates and the customer service awful! And for price I have to pay is more than my health insurance!!! need to do something about this ASAP. One can only hope a more reliable company buys them in the USA. I heard they are owned by a company in Canada. Yep that makes a lot of sense! If you are thinking about Atlanticbb think and rethink!

I got Atlantic broadband for internet, because I had to. They are the only one where I live. They keep raising the price, and my internet is slow, very slow. It is supposed to be the fastest they have. I have had them for about 3 years now and it keeps getting worse. So to anyone that is thinking about getting their service, Do not get it. If you can, get someone else.

Enough is enough I had with feeds, the high prices with bad service from this company, "the shenanigans" when cable cost is more than a car payment. It's time to say bye bye good & riddance. You made it so easy for me to cut cord and for all disgruntled customers out there? Tell Atlantic Broadband to take a hike too. When you cancel your service don't call them. Take their equipment back to their office. They are going to give the runaround with bad attitude. Remember over the air their no fees, high bill like this company 80+ channels. If you don't stand for something you'll fall for anything. Wake people. They are ripping you off.

This is for the people that's thinking about getting atlantic broadband. DON'T!!! If you can get satellite do that. They make you pay for channels you don't watch. If you try to drop them you'll lose the channels that you do watch. If you have a problem with their cable box they set up an appointment. Count on them to very late and if you have to set another appointment that will a few days later. In the meantime you will be without and then they charge you for them day and then they charge you for a service call and they will be very late. My appointment was from 8:30 to 10:30 and I'm still waiting and it is now 2:48. That's 5 hours late. If I'm late on my bill they charge a late fee. If you have choice DON'T!!!

I hope enough people write these reviews about Atlantic Broadband so they'll be forced to close! When I originally called them I was told since my new address never had service from them, they would have to see if it was serviceable and it would take 24 hrs. I called 32 hours later only to be told that it'll be 3 days before they can check. So I had to call them again since apparently they don't know how to call people back. I was told there would have to be some "construction" done. I asked what that meant and was told he didn't know and a technician would call me.

There must be graft going on a Miami Beach City Hall for this disgusting company to have an exclusive lock on Miami Beach. As others have written, they richly deserve to be put out of business. Cable keeps going out, no way to easily check the charges on my bill, terrible TERRIBLE service, long waits to talk to someone on the phone. Streaming can't come too soon to offer an option. Is Mr. Levine the mayor aware of how much people HATE this company? He should be ASHAMED!!!

I pay for their unleashed internet service which boasts 120 Mbps. Right now I'm getting SEVEN... 7 Mbps and for the past month 22 Mbps at the most. My upload speed is higher than my download speed which is unheard of... I've called customer service, waited on hold for 35 minutes, only to be told they don't know what's going on and I have to wait over a week for a technician. Aiken County is being held over a barrel because there aren't many high-speed internet companies in the county so ABB can continue to overpromise and underdeliver.

They hijack my browser with Atlantic Broadband surveys! When I refuse to take the survey, they just wait a little while and pop up another window. The offending survey website is http://www.surveyupdateddaily.com/. The offending organization is their parent company Atlantic Broadband Finance. Their tech support claims not to know what's going on, pretending that it must be a problem with my virus protection.

The service hardly ever works and there are many outages on a weekly basis. Company will not refund you for outages unless you call and ask, which takes about an hour. Horrible service and it is a monopoly.

Today there is no video input for BS. It has been out for 4 hours. I have been on hold for an hour trying to get to a customer representatives, listening to their commercials about how they offer telephone support 24/7. I tried to log in to my account and the login failed - 3 times. I know I am putting in the correct log in and password but it will not let me log in.

We have been without cable since last week and now this week. No one is listening. Not one ABB person is helping. This is the worse company ever. We call every day and stay home for the technician and we get no response. Thinking of going with ATT!!!