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Formerly Atlantic Broadband

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Breezeline delivers high-speed internet, TV and phone services to residential and business customers primarily in the northeastern United States. The company offers fiber-optic internet, digital cable TV and VoIP phone services.

Pros
  • Positive technician performance
  • Reliable internet speed
  • Affordable pricing options
Cons
  • Frequent service interruptions
  • Long wait times for support
  • Confusing billing practices

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    Reviewed July 13, 2020

    I'm reasonably happy with the service except for 3 things:
    1. They don't offer DECADES Television channel.
    2. Not real happy with Tivo — it's too confusing.

    3. When you select a channel it doesn't automatically go to the hi-def version. If you don't key in "804" for example and just "4" it won't play the hi-def version.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed July 7, 2020

    We are bundled with ABB. We lost all service due to a storm on 7/6 at 8:15 pm. I called (25 minutes on hold) and was told it was a commercial box that cut service to many customers on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. No estimated time for repair. I called again Tuesday morning, 7/7 and was told my problem was more localized. They won’t provide service until Friday, 7/10. I work from home. In addition, I’ve lost my internet connection several times during important business meetings since I signed up with Atlantic Broadband in April. I could never recommend ABB. If you have a choice, go elsewhere.

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    Reviewed May 22, 2020

    Atlantic Broadband is like every other internet company out there. They promise an internet speed they can't deliver. I signed up for the Gigabit service thinking buying the highest price would resolve issues, it didnt. I have called 5 times in two weeks, after a half hour on hold I hung up. Today as of this second I am over an hour and a half!!!! I will not hang up today!!! Speeds are supposed to be around 1000mbps. I havent seen anything above 500 wired and 40mbps wireless!!!! I am going to be reaching out to local and NH state reps to see if they can organize some kind of lawsuit. We the People are being taken advantage of!!!

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    Reviewed May 8, 2020

    Make sure you know your modem and its speed before you call! They will tell you that the problems are because “your modem is not capable of their speed.” I checked my modem and it handles more than I was paying for!!! By 150mpbs more!!! I will spend another hour on hold again to tell them this. Lying, horrible company. If my area could get ANY other internet I would switch! Comcast hear our cries and please come to Smithfield!!!

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    Reviewed May 3, 2020

    Not very happy with Atlantic Broadband internet services! We honestly have had trouble with the internet dropping out several times a day since they took over. They have come out to our home at least 5 times to try to fix this issue. Replaced the modem but still is doing the same thing! Every time they come out they tell us it is fixed and it seems to work correctly for a couple of days then it goes right back to the same problem. Have had to call customer service several times and wait forever before speaking to someone. Then we are on the phone for like 2 hours only to be told again they will have to come out again to fix the problem. Very frustrated. Just want to have our services. We pay for every month work! And believe me it is highway robbery what they charge! Wish they had other choices to switch to because then they would have some competition and maybe things would change.

    I have seen several complaints about them but nothing seems to change. We also have to be available on their times for them to come out which means losing time at work each and every time! It is not right and we should not have to have a company come out that many times. Not sure if they use faulty equipment or the service tech doesn’t know how to fix the problem or they just want to keep charging customers money for coming out. I was with metro cast before them and have been a loyal customer for many years but am considering going elsewhere at this point. I mean why am I paying for a service that partially works most of the time!

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    Reviewed March 24, 2020

    I was formerly a Metrocast customer, almost three years ago, and had my payments set up to withdraw directly from my bank account. I moved and transferred ownership of the account to my former roommate, who has been paying and using the service. In the intervening years, Metrocast became Atlantic Broadband. In March of this year, Atlantic Broadband stole $164 from me via direct withdrawal.

    I spent over a week trying to resolve the issue and get the money back through a series of representatives that had no understanding of how this could have happened or why. I called four times, emailed three times, spoke to someone through their Twitter account, and was even lied to about nobody getting back to me because my phone line had been disconnected and the call wasn't going through. My phone is fine, I had three friends with different carriers call me to test it. In the end, Atlantic Broadband told me there was no way this was their doing. It was third-party fraud and I should dispute it through my bank and GET A NEW BANK ACCOUNT.

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    Reviewed Jan. 6, 2020

    Atlantic Broadband has the worst customer service call center of any service provider. I can call anytime of day, any day of the week and be on hold for at LEAST 30 minutes. After 4 attempts over a 4 day period and a cumulative hold time of close to 2 hours, I finally spoke to t person. After 30 minutes trying to resolve my issue the representative scheduled a service call. I receive a confirmation via a text message for my appointment. I waited the scheduled 2 hour window and the service tech has not showed up. I called the customer service number to inquire when the tech will arrive. I am typing this review as I have been (and still am) on hold for 15 minutes and counting. I wish I had an alternative choice for TV service. All the top executives at Atlantic Broadband should be required to call their customer service number on a weekly basis and remain on the line until they speak to a person.

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    Customer ServicePunctuality & SpeedStaff

    Reviewed Jan. 6, 2020

    If you can avoid AtlanticBB, do so. But here there is little else to go on. Right now I have been waiting over an hour for an agent to pick up the phone on their call-in helpline. Sad. As soon as I can leave AtlanticBB I will. And then last time I called in, it took about 45 minutes for the agent to answer and she said she had to connect me to a technician. Instead, she just put me back on the same phone waiting line. Miserable service.

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    Reviewed Jan. 2, 2020

    I've been a customer for Atlantic Broadband for more than 7 years, the customer service has been always awful, long hours waiting on the phone, horrible customer agents that hung up on you, and on top of all the internet service is always slow and disconnecting. And don't forget how expensive it is!!!! :(, I don't have more options in my area, this is an abuse....

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    Customer ServiceInstallation & SetupPricePunctuality & SpeedStaff

    Reviewed Dec. 30, 2019

    First let me tell you their service is always going out and is really slow. Speed test never reaches 100/10 as we pay for. They do not offer fiber in our area, so slow speed with at least 1 outage a week. We had our home, business and church through them. Home we just switched to a company that gives us 1 gig for less than we paid for 100/10 through Atlantic Broadband. Customer service times are crazy. Like 30 minutes to an hour. The longest I waited was an hour and 20 minutes.

    So we just canceled our home internet with them. They came out years ago and installed the box and cables. No I just had to drive over an hour one way to drop the box off or they would charge me for it. The person at the location I dropped of could care less. I asked if it cost a lot of money for new customer acquisition and his response was, "I'm sure a lot." I said you make me drive over 2 hours to drop off a box and you think that is right. He laughed and said, "Yea that sucks." Great customer service.

    Business service is horrible. Constantly really slow or down. We had our phone down and not working for a whole day once and hours at a time every month. We are switching to another provider in a month when the fiber lines are complete. Have been on hold for literally hours at a time trying to get customer service. They are horrible.

    Now the church... What a bunch of crooks. We started live streaming our services and the connection was so slow. So I did a speed test and they had our church on a throttled down 15/5 service charging us more than a 75/10 plan. I talked to customer service and they said that is what they ordered years ago and they no longer had plans that slow, so they actually throttled the speed down and charged us for a rate 5 times faster yet didn't upgrade our speed. They did this for years and thought that was OK. Really, ripping off a church. Told me the person doing the bills should have caught that and gotten the free upgrade. That it was our 70+ year old treasurer that should have caught their over billing for the slower speed. Did they offer any rebate or any apology? Nope, just blamed us for not staying on top of it. If I could give them negative stars I would, this company could care less about their customers and to rip off a church, that is a new low!!!

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Dec. 29, 2019

    I have been with ABB since 11/27/17. I have added DTA's and I use a Tivo DVR on the main TV. There are 4 DTA's which I plan on returning two of them. Then I want to ask why my bill has gone up from about $158 to $198!? I just don't think the service is worth it for that money. The package is filled up with a bunch of shopping and religious channels which I cannot stand! The only premium channel is EPIX which mostly shows old movies. I really don't care for waiting up to 45 minutes on the phone to talk to a human either. In order to add channels you like you have to add more money to your bill-not good! I am going to cut the cord and go Roku soon 'cause this is BULL!

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    Reviewed Dec. 25, 2019

    Atlantic Broadband is the only game in town in some areas of Belle Vernon, PA. After 1 month of lies, false starts, empty promises, I think the public should be made aware of what can happen when management has an indifference and lies go unaccounted for. If you can't install, or fix the problem, then why are you filling the mailbox with fliers and ads promoting your services? Just admit you don't have savvy techs and don't service the area. Three installers, three lines men and still no service.

    Never once notified customer of cancellation, and the customer had to call after the appointment slot was passed and nobody showed up. Then the response was, "Oh, I see the order was cancelled." Yep. And nobody was ever told. So the customer's time was unimportant. So, why don't you just admit you are using advertising to get responses for a need in a certain area you don't currently service? Neither Ben nor Keith of Uniontown, PA followed up or advised via phone or text of what the problem was. They went home to a Merry Xmas while the customer with cancer was left abandoned. Shame on your entire company. You are liars by definition.

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    Reviewed Dec. 3, 2019

    Horrible Internet, I'm paying for a speed of 1GB. And it's super slow, every time I do a speed test I don't go over 600MB. The internet comes and goes, Impossible to play online or streaming. I had technicians switching modem 4 times already. Customer service is ok, if you are willing to wait an hour to speak to a representative. If you have another option take it.. Unfortunately for me I got no other choice.

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    Contract & Terms

    Reviewed Nov. 12, 2019

    I have recently switched from Direct tv to Atlantic broadband which was a big mistake. The first bill was $403 and I asked why and was told it was prorated and my monthly bill is $145 which is more than what I paid for with direct tv. I recently called to make payment arrangements with this outrageous bill for 6 days after the last day to pay it and was not able to get the arrangement which is ridiculous and when you get the bill there is no due date on it which is stupid. When we move we are going back to direct tv or Dish. At least they will extend your payments. I hate this service. It’s a rip off and I will tell everyone how they are.

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    Customer ServicePrice

    Reviewed Oct. 29, 2019

    Atlantic Broadband purchased Metrocast in my area. Thought it was going to be better internet with the new company. Unfortunately that wasn't the case. In the past 2 months my internet was down more than it was up. Call the customer service number and they sent out a service tech. He did some work outside. Said it was something on the line. Worked for a day or two then out again. Called again to complain. They had me do the unplug and wait thing (like every time I called). She told me she seen where it kept going out. She then told me my router was a little old that might be the problem. So I checked the "approved" list and purchased another router. That wasn't the problem because we were still unable to get on the internet.

    Called back yet again they sent another tech out to fix it and told me that if they had to come into the house I would be charged a service fee. I even asked them if my plan was good enough to handle two teenagers being on their games and myself being on laptop or watching movies. They assured me that my plan should cover that plus more. Anyways the tech came out and whatever he had to do it was all outside so I wasn't charged. Told us that he "fixed" the problem and I should have no problems at all with the internet now. Yeah ok! Unfortunately Atlantic Broadband is the only internet provider in this area so I guess that makes them not really care. Oh and you will still be charged FULL price whether your internet works or not. If you have another choice for your internet do yourself a favor and go with them. It'll save you some hassle.

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    Reviewed Oct. 25, 2019

    I have only two companies providing services to the area where I live in Blakeslee, PA. When I moved here last year I subscribed to one of them and proved to be so bad that I had service 10% of the time with the modem showing error lights almost all the time. Finally I was able to break my one year contract and switched to Atlantic Broadband. Last week I call because I had no service. They scheduled a service visit two day later (how good is that when you work from home like me?)

    The technician came and found a problem in the router and proceeded to change it and also went to check the box in the street and told me there was a problem there and he would send a crew to fix it. Today I got an email with the monthly bill and I was shocked to see the amount I owe them was double the regular price. (from $65 went up to $130) so I called the company. I was put on hold for about 20 minutes before I got a service rep in the line. I was told they charged me $50 because the technician reported nothing was wrong with the service!!! They finally gave me a one time "courtesy" credit. What a nerve.

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    Customer ServiceInstallation & Setup

    Reviewed Oct. 22, 2019

    I contacted Atlantic broadband and was added to the wait list on Feb. 21, 2019. I have made numerous calls and emails to smothershead@atlanticbb.com without getting any dates for installation. My next door neighbors and friends along my street all have atlantic but I am still waiting. Today is Tuesday Oct 22, 2019 and I just talked to Pearl who is promising to call me back with good news tomorrow. We will see if she can call me to install service in Hague Va.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed Oct. 20, 2019

    Besides having slow internet now I can’t get any TV channels on football Sunday! I called and was on hold for 40 minutes before speaking to a rep. I told the rep what was happening. After another 30 minutes or so she couldn’t fix the problem. Now I have to wait till Friday for a tech to come out 5 days with no service!! I asked about adjusting my bill since I’m not getting what I’m paying for but no! I have to wait till the tech comes out then call again? WTH?!?

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    Reviewed Oct. 17, 2019

    The internet speeds I was promised I frequently never obtain, despite having a solid connection to the router that they provide, which is also inadequate for most households as the signal drops off very quickly. The internet also shuts down without warning for no reason at least 10 times a day. They are not the most expensive network out there, but like almost all internet companies, are the only option in your area, and they deliver sub-par performance almost all of the time.

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    Reviewed Oct. 11, 2019

    I can't login to see the bundles... they hide them for existing customers 'cause the good deals are only for new customers. My bill jumped from 200 to over 300 for no reason. You can't return your boxes if you live in this area. You have to drive an hour away. They won't have their servicemen pick them up. The company is a rip-off. I will be choosing sling or another app on the internet with Frontier

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    Reviewed Oct. 4, 2019

    Since day one with ABB it has taken an average of over 40 minutes just to get someone on the phone to disappoint me. Now that Comcast is here I will be done with ABB asap. Comcast offers more coverage, better customer service and more flexibility at a monthly saving of $70.00 over the ABB price. This is the easiest choice I have ever made. I can now use my own modem, I have all the same equipment, I got the equivalent of ABB digital package back and when I call Comcast (surprise, they answer the phone and actually treat me as a human being). When talking with ABB about options they kept hounding on the fact that Comcast had a two year contract. Guess what, my father just made a change to his ABB account without my knowledge and they told him he had to sign a two year contract. I can't understand why anyone with the proper knowledge would stay with ABB another day. Shame on you ABB.

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    Reviewed Sept. 25, 2019

    Wait times for customer service and or support HOURS! Internet speeds HALF of what I paid for. Customer service reps can not even clearly explain billing! This company needs to be investigated by the NYS Attorney General.

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    Staff

    Reviewed Sept. 10, 2019

    We've been customers of Atlantic Broadband for a few years now. We have had nothing but issues. Between our internet being super laggy to randomly not working at all. Sure you can contact support on the issue however, you will be waiting a while. Close to hours, actually. It took us months to finally get a representative out to our home only to find out the previous tech didn't set anything up properly. Of course we still had to pay our bill even though we had no internet. Sounds backwards, doesn't it? If this wasn't the only ISP in our area we would have switched immediately. We are essentially forced to use this company. I would not recommend anyone (even if you do 1 Google search/month) to sign up with this company.

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    Reliability

    Reviewed Aug. 21, 2019

    I only use Atlantic Broadband for internet service, because their prices are too high for the reliability they provide. If there was another internet service in my area I would use it. They seem to have high volume black outs during peek times of the day.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Aug. 18, 2019

    We have been an Atlantic Broadband customers for over 20 years. We have TV, Internet and Phone service with them. We have four (4) TV's using their service. This morning one of the TV's was not getting their signal. I called their number and was put on hold for 25 minutes without anyone addressing my concerns. I then hung up and redialed them thinking maybe my call had got lost. They offer a service when you call them to send a signal to your modem thus trying to get the TV to work again, this did not work. I stayed on the phone waiting for someone another 17 minutes with no answer or help. My wife tried to call them again for another 10 minutes and gave up and sent them an email to help us. Very poor Service.... Very discouraged....

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    Reviewed Aug. 17, 2019

    This is the worst cable service and customer service ever, be ready to spend between an hour to 3 hours just to get connected to representative that at the end will do nothing and leave just frustrated with the waste of time and energy, just to give you schedule for technician a week later. So you have to be without cable and internet meanwhile in 2019 but also keep paying for something you not even getting. Wish I could give zero stars for cable, internet and below zero for customer service.

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    PriceReliability

    Reviewed Aug. 8, 2019

    When I signed up for Atlantic Broadband service at our apartment in Miami Beach, I was given a price quote for unbundled internet service. It seemed a fair price and I was not informed that it was an introductory price only valid for a year. Well, without notice, my price increased to an amount I no longer consider fair. I have Comcast internet service at my primary home. With the Atlantic Broadband price increase, I pay more for their 50 Mbit service than I pay for my Comcast 175 Mbit service. Also, the Comcast service is very reliable, while there have been multiple Atlantic Broadband outages, some last more than a day. I would welcome an internet provider that offers a fair product at a fair price. I'm tired of these companies always playing the 'bundle' game (even though I didn't have a bundled service).

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    Reviewed Aug. 6, 2019

    I used to have Frontier internet service in my house. One day Atlantic Broadband sales representatives he told me, "What about you change to our company and you will get Showtime and HBO for only extra $20." It was good deal and I agreed. When I got the service first I didn’t got HBO but I got Showtime. I called them then after more than half hour they said, "Your agreement doesn’t have HBO." I asked them, "Add HBO and cancel Showtime if it’s same price." They refused and I said, "It’s ok."

    When the bill came they charged me 229$ and the sales representative he told me I will pay $70!! I called them to ask. They said, "This is only the first month." Second month I found the bill $120!! Vs I used to pay only $39 with Frontier!! I got mad from the guy lied to me and he said I will only pay $70.. So I asked them to take all extras and leave only the internet. Then I found the bill came $90!! I went to the company, the customer service told me to reduce my bill, "You need to get your own router." I went to Staples. Get a new router. I paid $150 and gave them all the equipment belong to them. I found myself paid $75!!!! Vs I paid about $40 with Frontier.

    So I got mad from this company and the bad customer service, I told them I don’t wanna the service anymore. After I paid more than 4 times I paid with Frontier if I stayed with them. And They still needs a money from me $135 and I said, "I will not pay a penny for you." I found out my score credit went from 790 to 735 because they send the bill to collection. This is the worst experience with the company like that. Not recommended at all.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed July 22, 2019

    Where I live, AtlBB is the only ISP I can get that offers over 10mbps. I pay for the 250mbps plan, however every month or so I have a week long period where the internet speeds hover around 20-50mbps download and .9mbps upload. I also have constantly spiking ping upwards of 1600ms! It makes it impossible to stream (which I do to supplement my income), or play video games. Even watching Netflix is a constantly laggy experience.

    Whenever I try to call customer service, I end up waiting on hold for 2 hours for the automated service to just hang up on me. I can never get through to a human representative. When sending an email with my issues, I get a response that "everything appears to be running smoothly" and no further options for me to receive help. If there were another option for an ISP, I would drop this company in an instant. This is downright ridiculous.

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    Reviewed July 22, 2019

    Is there FAQ tells you if there's an outage, go to their website, and they will tell you if there's an outage in your area. Had an outage in the Wolfeboro, New Hampshire area. Since 2 in the afternoon this Sunday. Went to the website at 5:30, found no outage in my area. Waited to 8. Called. Finally waited 14 minutes. To find out if there was an outage. Website never updated. Why bother using a website to tell you there's a outage in your area when they don't update the website.

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    Reviewed July 15, 2019

    I live in an area where Atlantic Broadband is really the only option for internet, so I bundled. Not only was the price fair and the "express" internet option a great choice but it was great for the pocketbook. Fast forward 3 years. Sure, Atlantic Broadband has problems in the winter when it is 5 degrees out, but when you call to report an outage, they say, "there is no outage in your area."

    So, my family fell upon hard times. My wife has cancer. I need to cut unneeded expenses. So, I looked ABB's internet deals saw 250mbps for $49.99. So, I ordered Sling TV and thought I'll cut the cable and save $100+ a month. Called ABB, oh, that $49.99 price is only for new customers. Customers who have been with ABB for over 3 years get no discount whatsoever... My price is $100/month for the same service. Let's just say, Xfinity is one street away from my house now... Once it expands service to my street, guess who's switching?

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    Reviewed June 30, 2019

    I've been on hold for 20 minutes and can't report an outage. Atlantic Broadband sucks. 1 Customer Support is terrible. Then I'm going to answer the phone. I've tried calling you, your service stinks.

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    Reviewed June 26, 2019

    I ordered internet and cable bundle thinking I could try both out for the discounted rate and drop cable if I didn't want it. They are the only service, outside of DirecTV, offered in my area. I called up to cancel the cable because it and the internet are absolute below par in every respect. I was told that my bill would then be over a $100 a month for just their slow internet since I'd no longer be considered a new customer and would get charged full price. I'll will switch instantly when Fios is available in my neighborhood.

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    Reviewed June 5, 2019

    I was so glad to receive internet service from Atlantic broadband in my area with no other option, the fact that my 200mbps runs at under 20mbps is GREAT! I cant understand how i got so lucky to have a provider that understands that i needed slower speeds and crap service. Thank you ABB for being your best, sUPer FaSt iNTerNEt! Cant stream, game, or even load email without my PC falling on its face. WOW!!! Im also hardwired and this still happens.

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    Installation & Setup

    Reviewed May 29, 2019

    My cable would not work for 3 months and they would only credit me $19, even though when the repair person came they said they originally installed a "bad" modem. Atlantic Broadband is a Piece of garbage company.

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    Reviewed May 22, 2019

    I went inside the building to make a payment just like I have always done. This time there was a new person at the counter. I paid and left. The next day I was going over my checking account and instead of $54.90 I was charged $540.90. I am on social security and I need my money. I was told it would take 3 to 5 business days to return my money. It is now the 6 days. It just happened to be a week end in those days. They never even offered me any kind of explanation never sorry. No reduction in my account. I feel I have been robbed. I will look at my receipt from now on. I hope every patron does the same.

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    Reviewed May 9, 2019

    We have had them for 6 months now and their internet is awful. We never got good signal and after have a tech come out weekly for 2 months they had to run a new line under my house. It maybe fixed the problem for a month and a half. Now the internet will cut off about 4-5 times a day. Unfortunately there isn’t another company we can get due to our location. With cable and internet the bill is extremely high and paying for internet that does not like to work most of the time is really aggravating and annoying! Someone else PLEASE open up another internet provider in Aiken SC that people in the “county” can have access to! !

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    Reliability

    Reviewed May 4, 2019

    Internet goes out 2 or 3 times a day. I have to unplug the modem at least twice a week. The Wi-Fi is also unreliable. I was just watching Star Wars, the ending scene where Luke blows up the space station, and the Internet goes out just before he shoots the torpedoes. By the time it came back on the next movie had already started. Unacceptable.

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    Reviewed April 19, 2019

    I have Atlantic Broadband's premier package, which has claims of speeds that are "up to" 250 Mbps download and 20 Mbps upload. I've never seen it anywhere above 15 Mbps download in my entire life. When I moved to a new area and saw that Atlantic Broadband was my only option for an internet service provider, I almost cried. I read all the reviews and thought, "Hey, it can't actually be THAT bad?" Oh boy... was I wrong.

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    Reviewed April 11, 2019

    I used to hate Comcast until I moved to where AtlanticBB is my only cable provider. Now I consider COMCAST a great company. Their IT setup is from the 1990s; I have at least 3 different log in/password combinations, some of which still say Metrocast, because they cannot figure out single sign on. And every time I try to access the video App or watch tv online the logins and passwords are 'invalid', so I have to call up and give them more identification types than applying for a mortgage to get them to tell me what THEY think my passwords are or let me reset them.

    My digital recorder doesn't know what time an 8 PM show starts, so it records everything 1 minute too soon and cuts off 1 minute before the show ends. For every show. Their ads say watch tv anywhere. What they mean is ANYWHERE BUT via AtlanticBB. I am researching pulling the plug. Satellite is weak in my neighborhood (trees) so I'll have to suffer with their internet and use Hulu etc. for TV.

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    Reviewed April 10, 2019

    I came on this website to see reviews, because the Atlantic Broadband was the only WiFi available for where I live, so I gave it a chance because I didn’t have a choice, I am GLAD I did!! I got the highest which was 250 for my internet plan, and I live in a small condo, the 250 is for a house! People get the lowest plan and have kids and they wonder why their WiFi is so slow. That is why, you get what you pay for! Today is the day they came and set me up the guy was so nice! The internet is great and it’s only $70 month for the first year, it’s legit, yeah people think that’s a lot of money, but it’s a great service. I’m glad we ignored the bad reviews because there was a lot of them!

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    Reviewed March 5, 2019

    Internet outages are routine. Not a day goes by that someone in my neighborhood doesn’t lose their internet connection. I’m writing the review with my phone connected to the cellular network because the internet is down. Too bad this company is the only option in St. Mary’s county. I can’t wait for more options.

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    Price

    Reviewed Feb. 26, 2019

    No viable alternative except more expensive outlets, and IRONICALLY they offer crap for too much money. Their email isn't formatted for mobile devices, so don't plan on using that. They changed owners, but didn't change the service quality. I WOULD suggest them to my enemies.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Feb. 23, 2019

    This is literally the worst service I have seen a company offer hands down!! The service is consistently not working, and good luck calling the provider for help, after a good 1-2 hour hold time you will finally be connected to someone who has no clue what the problem is and would rather you not call them. I don't see how they stay in business!! I can't wait to change providers.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Feb. 8, 2019

    Atlantic BB is the worst provider EVER! Unreliable service, we spend more time on the phone with them than we do watching TV or surfing the web. I feel bad for the techs who have to face the pissed off customers day in and day out. My family has no choice in a provider. Atlantic is the only game in town. They have us by the short hairs. I hope this company goes belly up. I would give 0 stars if I could.

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    Reviewed Feb. 1, 2019

    Customer service representatives are polite, helpful and courteous; however the reliability of their product is Terrible. It is inconceivable how Atlantic Broadband can have such an unreliable product and yet still promote it? Shameful. My heart goes out to the employees that have to represent this company. (Four Times in 8 days I reported no service and the rep said they were having an outage and were working on it.)

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    Reviewed Jan. 22, 2019

    The only saving grace to being a customer is the service is stable, if you can get it working. Because you have no or limited options that treat you horribly. Currently COMCAST/Xfinity has run fiber optics around the area and are about to eat Atlantic BB’s Lunch! Thank the lord for competition! Maybe Atlantic BB will get their act together and treat their existing loyal customers like they treat new customers instead of second class citizens. Long hold times, overcharging for existing customers has been their business model. NO More! Hello COMCAST!

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed Jan. 18, 2019

    After seeing all of the reviews, the Belmont NH office is incredible. From Ken who walked me over the phone through some issues, to the next day Tom who found other problems that were slowing my internet down, to Patti who helped me define what my needs were, to Susan the customer rep who helped me understand an upgrade to my service. Atlantic Broadband should be proud of these dedicated employees. Do I like the fees? No. Do I like the extra surcharges for watching local tv and sports that I cannot negotiate? No. But that is out of the hands of the local employees who went above and beyond. Glad I live in Belmont NH.

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    Customer ServicePunctuality & SpeedEase of Use

    Reviewed Jan. 18, 2019

    The call-in self help option is easy to navigate and pay your bill. And, if you're late it also doesn't make you pay your whole bill. You have the option of paying just your late amount. They even have a "promise-to-pay" which you can use (I think every 6 months) if you're going to be really late. However, you have to call in or do live chat online for this. Live chat is always immediate if you are waiting a long time on the phone. I rarely have an internet outage and if there is one it is clearly explained on the initial message if/when you call in. I'm not sure if there is a late payment fee. But, if there is one, it is a small penalty.

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    Customer ServicePriceReliability

    Reviewed Jan. 15, 2019

    Well...where should I start. I live in an area where Atlantic Broadband is the only internet service provider, so I have no other choice but to go with them. I’ve had them for 2 months and I must say, this has been the WORST SERVICE I’ve ever had in my life!!! It’s not only unreliable, but the customer service is horrible as well!!! I work from home and I’ve lost projects due to the connectivity issues. Did I mention the outrageous price of all the addons just to make the internet work like normal internet should be working (and it still don’t work). It should be illegal for this company to still be doing business. When I had AT&T, I NEVER had any issues. I wish AT&T serviced my current area, because I’ve had enough with Atlantic Broadband expensive, unreliable, unprofessional service!!!

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    Reviewed Jan. 15, 2019

    You call them up. You wait 30 minutes if you're lucky. You tell them what's going on. They are totally clueless and they won't give you a technician. They get all flustered when you ask them if they actually have a clue then they tell you, "Don't insult me go figure." I live in Griswold. I would dump these dummies yesterday if there was an alternative.

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    Customer ServiceSales & MarketingOnline & AppStaffReliability

    Reviewed Jan. 7, 2019

    They are the worst company to deal with! Customer support is answering after 2h waiting and listening their advertising. Impossible to use their site properly. The reset of login or password is a nightmare. The Chat is non-existing. I had to re-type 3 time the text and 2 hours later nothing anyway. From my phone their website is not responsive as it should be. It is full of bug like asking 4 times in a row the account number. Bravo the IT guys! Totally nu, from the coding to the tech support!

    Also some bug with the phone, I could not type into the field. How in 2019 idiots are not checking this kind of bugs! After 2h, I got a representative telling me we cannot reset login ID so they should tell instead of making us getting creasy with page that does not work! So they oblige people to call to reset even your password = 2h waiting by phone. They have no respect for the time we spend because idiots manage this company that way!

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    Price

    Reviewed Jan. 2, 2019

    I have been on hold for nearly 2 hours. It would be really nice to talk to an actual human being! They don’t know how to treat their customers who pay for their overpriced services. Not to mention that my bill creeps up in cost constantly! I live in PA and can’t even get Steeler games. I always have the Ravens on multiple channels. Ridiculous!!!

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    Customer ServiceContract & TermsPriceStaff

    Reviewed Jan. 2, 2019

    The level of customer service that this company provides is near non-existent. After being on hold for 1 hour and 12 minutes, I was transferred to another representative for another 37 minute hold, only to learn that there was no way that they could initiate service for another week and 1/2 because they are too busy. The community that they service lacks Fios so they are essentially the only show in town. Unfortunately, this show is not worth the price of admission!

    I am appalled by their lack of concern for their customer's time and the inconvenience that they instill in order to arrange service. They require you take a half day and commit it to them showing up at their whim. They laugh at you when you try to discuss a self-install option and tell you that will never happen with their company. If you have Comcast or Verizon, count your blessings, because just getting service from this company is the most trying experience I have ever had with any utility. The communities that they serve should cancel their franchise agreement with them and invite in another competent vendor that appreciates the time limitations of their customer base.

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    Punctuality & Speed

    Reviewed Dec. 29, 2018

    "We’ll be there between 11-2," they said. "The tech will call you 1/2 before he gets there," they said. Well, after 40 minutes on hold we were told he would be there 15 mins late. When 15 minutes turned into 30, I cancelled it. We will find another option despite them seeming to be the only cable provider in our area. Is their business model to “serve” rural areas, knowing they have their consumers over a barrel? If so, what a terrible way to operate.

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    Price

    Reviewed Dec. 26, 2018

    The cost of cable tv is ridiculous!!! In 10 years my cable bill has increased 100%, but the service has not justified the outrageous cost of cable. I am exploring other options and will 'cut the cable'.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Dec. 19, 2018

    I signed up for electronic billing. However, when I receive the bill there's no amount specified and there's no way to log onto the system. They tell me I've never set up a password yet that's untrue. They try to set me up again but aren't able to do so. I've spent way too much time with customer service and they have no idea how to handle the issue. To make things worse, if I want to get the statements mailed to me I am charged extra. So, the only way to pay bills is to call each month once I receive the electronic notification and then send in a check. I give them one star only because zero is not an option.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed Dec. 14, 2018

    I am not the only person having problems with Atlantic Broadband. So many people I know have ABB and they hate them. Problem is, we cannot get anyone else in our area, so we're stuck with them. And they know this, and take advantage of this. Not anymore. I have started a Facebook group to file a massive complaint against Atlantic Broadband.

    How does it work? Well, I am going to file one complaint with the Attorney General of PA, and everyone who posts a complaint against ABB on my Facebook group will also be handled by the Attorney General of PA. This works because Atlantic Broadband's headquarters are in Uniontown, PA, so the Attorney General of PA will handle all complaints against businesses in PA. So, it doesn't matter if you're in SC, VA, WV, NY, or PA, you're still a customer of a company in PA, and that complaint will be handled by the Attorney General of PA.

    I have already filed a complaint against them once, and ABB gave me excellent customer care, and knew they had to walk on eggshells because their every move was being monitored by the Attorney General of PA. So if I file another complaint, including my Facebook group, the Attorney General of PA will handle the bulk of the complaints as one complaint.

    The hope is that Atlantic Broadband will have no choice but to reform to a fair and honest company with all these complaints against them. Because trust me, from personal experience, ABB is absolutely terrified of one customer with enough knowledge and know how to file one complaint against them. So imagine how they will be feeling when thousands of complaints go against them in fell swoop. If you are interested in joining my group, and having your complaint taken into consideration, please follow this link over to my Facebook group, called "ATLANTIC BROADBAND MASS COMPLAINT"

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Dec. 14, 2018

    I CANCELLED MY SERVICES AND TURNED MY BOX IN THE SAME DAY. TO MY SURPRISE THEY WENT INTO MY CHECKING ACCOUNT A WEEK LATER, withdrew money for a "Unreturned modem". I even called the 800 number and gave them my confirmation number... To make sure they don't go in my account for anything... But they did. I had to make about three different phone calls to the billing dept. I went to the cable office in person and showed my receipt. Lastly, I was charged at my bank just to change my debit card... To keep them from going in my account again! Needless to say, I was upset, for lack of a better word.

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    Staff

    Reviewed Dec. 9, 2018

    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.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed Nov. 18, 2018

    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.

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    Reviewed Nov. 11, 2018

    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.

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    Reviewed Nov. 4, 2018

    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!!!

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed Oct. 29, 2018

    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.

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    Reviewed Oct. 29, 2018

    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!

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    Customer ServiceSales & MarketingPunctuality & Speed

    Reviewed Sept. 25, 2018

    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.

    I also constantly lose services. There is no customer service help. I am constantly hung up on or left for 2 and 3 hours on hold until I hang up. I have spent weeks calling and trying live chat and cannot contact anyone. I don't know what I can do. I have never been treated so poorly by any organization in my life. They don't give you the speed you pay for, the internet goes out at least a half a dozen times a day, we lose on demand services for days at a time and can't even report the outages. I spent the afternoon in tears after being given false info in person and honestly wish I could sue.

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    Reviewed Sept. 19, 2018

    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.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed Sept. 19, 2018

    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!

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    Price

    Reviewed Sept. 17, 2018

    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.

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    Customer ServicePunctuality & Speed

    Reviewed Sept. 13, 2018

    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.

    As far as the internet: my business is on its knees with problems. I have been spending 2 or more hours a day trying to get a good internet connection. We can't order products, track deliveries, make proposals to clients or email clients in a timely manner. Hours of downtime and anxiety. We have now spent several thousand dollars hiring a tech company to troubleshoot out small mom and pop business network, but the outages continue to occur. Atlantic Broadband is a plague on this good earth. It is a sin that there is no competition available and they can just get away with taking our money for bad service and a substandard product.

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    Customer ServicePrice

    Reviewed Sept. 10, 2018

    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.

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    Customer ServiceSales & MarketingPrice

    Reviewed Sept. 8, 2018

    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.

    Sadly, it lasted 15 minutes. I now can't watch Netflix and my son cannot use his Playstation. I have not called in yet this time because after hundreds of calls in the past couple of years, I need to prepare myself for the pack of lies the automation is going to tell me about how reliable they are. LOL. There has to be something we can do collectively. This is false advertisement, isn't it? If I pay for 250 mbps and barely clock in at 75? I am at such a loss as I also work from home and my son is in cyber school and it is affecting that negatively. When I call they just try and push their business service on me instead which would cost nearly 500/month. If you can avoid this company, do it, at all costs.

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    Customer ServicePrice

    Reviewed Sept. 8, 2018

    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?

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Aug. 17, 2018

    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.

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    Online & App

    Reviewed Aug. 17, 2018

    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.

    I decide to launch the VPN client and bring up YouTube to test. Now the website is lightening fast! No buffering, No waiting, it just runs like a dream. There is nothing wrong on my end and it is VERY obvious that Atlantic Broadband is throttling certain websites! Unfortunately ABB has monopolized my area otherwise I would change my provider. It's very sad that we lost net neutrality. I've decided to upgrade my smart TVs with Windows 10 HDMI PC's so they can run the VPN software as a standard smart TV cannot. Yes my smart TVs will often pause and stop while streaming Netflix, that causes me to restart and resume only for it to happen again within a hour. I hope everyone can find a solution to their streaming needs.

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    Reliability

    Reviewed Aug. 7, 2018

    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!

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed July 30, 2018

    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.

    And finally, they then leave a message giving me the main 800 number to call this "supervisor" back, the same number that takes up to, if not more than an hour for a rep to come onto the phone, which you then have to repeat everything over for the 12th time that week (today's rep told me he can't do anything until he gets other complaints from my area, clearly with an hour and 8 min hold time, I'm guessing there are enough complaints). This company takes advantage of the fact they are currently the only provider and will tell you when you call or go to the office that if you're not happy, you can go elsewhere. I cannot wait for "elsewhere" to come to town and shut them down. It's not right. None of it is. I refuse to pay them another dime. They do not deserve even one star.

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    Reviewed July 24, 2018

    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".

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    Reviewed July 12, 2018

    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.

    If you purchase good equipment for your internet (i.e. a high quality Router and Modem) you will never see issues. The leased equipment they provide is not the best, but obviously they can't provide top-tier equipment to everyone who only uses the internet for Facebook and writing bad reviews to share on Facebook. I recommend this ISP to anyone who wants the best we have in Central PA. 10/10. On a more technical note, I have a VPN running to my two friend's houses, who are also using Atlantic Broadband by the way, and we have about 98% up-time between us. If you know how to use the resources Atlantic Broadband provides, you will never be disappointed.

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    Reviewed July 3, 2018

    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.

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    Customer ServicePriceOnline & App

    Reviewed June 30, 2018

    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.

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    Customer ServiceOnline & AppEase of Use

    Reviewed June 19, 2018

    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.

    Today, because this is the seventh or eighth time this problem has recurred, I asked to speak with a supervisor. No supervisors were available, but one could call me back within 24 hours. In other words, for all practical purposes, there is no supervision. The only reason I have given one star is that the website will not allow me to give fewer!!! Prior to today, I have never written a negative review for any product. Atlantic Broadband is quite simply the greediest and most inept company that I have ever encountered.

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    Reviewed June 13, 2018

    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.

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    Reviewed June 12, 2018

    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.

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    Customer ServicePrice

    Reviewed June 9, 2018

    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!!!

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    Customer ServicePunctuality & Speed

    Reviewed June 1, 2018

    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.

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    Reviewed May 21, 2018

    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.

    Third, less than a week after I received new equipment from the lightning strike the internet connection began to work intermittently. I called support three times. The first two times I waited for longer than I had time to wait and ended up having to end the call. I did get through to someone through the online chat and they did a factory reset on my MoCA and within 15 mins the internet became even more intermittent. I tried to bring up the chat support which threw unhandled exceptions any time I was put in queue to wait (I'm a software engineer and I can tell you that an unhandled exception is a sign of bad programming and/or quality control). That being said I was stuck with calling and waiting. So after being on hold for over a half hour the support rep told me that they can get tech support to my house in two days!

    Once again I'm a software engineer and I rely on my internet connection to work and having to wait for over a full day and a half is a day and a half that I have to take off of work (I work from home if you haven't figured that out). The next thing the support lady did was threaten that I'd have to pay if tech support had to come to my house! (Someone please tell why I have to pay for tech support to come to my house when I am paying that crazy high fee of $120 per month for their services?)

    On top of all of that the support lady I was on the phone with was borderline rude when I told her I just restarted my MoCA and it will take a second for me to be able to tell her what all lights were displaying on the box. The first time I said that to her she repeated what she told me (Check the lights) so once again I tried to tell her again that I just restarted the MoCA and before I could finish my sentence she interrupted me and told me what she already told me twice before. It was obvious that I heard what she told me because I gave her a response, but to repeat the same thing to me three times like that as if I'm some kind of moron is downright disrespectful. Bottom line, if you can avoid moving to a area where Atlantic Broadband is the cable and ISP provider do it. It's blatantly obvious that Atlantic Broadband knows their peoples only choice and they take full advantage of that.

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    Reviewed May 13, 2018

    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.

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    PriceOnline & AppStaff

    Reviewed May 11, 2018

    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.

    I only created one password. She basically laughed at me when I told her that I disconnected the coax cable from the modem and unplugged the modem and still had WiFi service. Lol that’s not right lol but if I wanted a serviceman to come out they would charge me $40.00 just to see if things were hooked up properly. Funny thing with this is I live in Pennsylvania and the serviceman that hooked things up told me he drove from South Carolina to hook me up. Don’t trust them. Something odd about the experience. Now I’m looking to dump this service. Anyone else have this type of experience with them?

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    PriceStaff

    Reviewed May 11, 2018

    Service is decent and most reps are ok. But $50+ internet too high! I have fixed income and can't afford high prices! I have lowest speed. Price vs value not worth it!

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    Price

    Reviewed May 5, 2018

    This company is money gouger. They essentially included undisclosed costs and fees that they don't inform you of. You need to look into the details to understand that the PDF format of your monthly bill doesn't include all of the Taxes and Fees details. I canceled cable, purchased my own modem-router, and I now have a lower bill, which I expect to be lower in the next month. They don't provide details on the additional charge for all Sports channels, and the additional charge for local channels.

    They also don't disclose that the "Free TIVO" is being rented monthly for $25, and they're charging you twice for both TIVO and a DVR. They don't disclose that the "Free EPIX" channel is being billed on monthly basis. They also don't disclose the total of 6 Franchise Fees, the FCC Fee, and the two State Taxes, one for internet and one for cable. If my landlord allowed DirecTV to install cable and internet, I would opt into that installation. Unfortunately, Atlantic Broadband holds a monopoly in the area I live in.

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    Customer ServicePriceOnline & AppReliability

    Reviewed April 26, 2018

    Website is awful. I have not been able to log into my account for over 2 years, yet, I have to pay a fee to pay my bill by phone. Internet is down every morning between 4-6 (which they deny). Tech support told me I could not troubleshoot my modem online - yet website has a link - "Troubleshoot your modem online." Tech support told me no updates were pushed, yet my modem had errors related to updates. I told tech support I had an ongoing intermittent outage problem. He kept saying, "It's running fine now." When I tried to explain the internet intermittently dropped, he told me I needed to listen and said, "It's fine now."

    How much is my time worth? Because Atlantic BB has eaten hours of my time. For over 2 years they charged me for a modem I didn't rent. Why didn't I realize this? I could not access my account online to see my bill and services!!! Upload speeds are far slower than other providers. Search Atlantic BB and dropped internet plus SW file fail and see how many complaints there are.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed March 17, 2018

    I have been a seasonal customer for 15 years. I just called to cancel my service because it keeps going up every year. The lady on the phone never tried to save me or ask me why I'm canceling??? Guess it doesn't matter to them. Where I work, we try to save every customer who calls because they are our paychecks. So sad they do not care!!!

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Feb. 11, 2018

    Customer service is THE WORST! Each time I call (which is often) I hold on average 30 minutes, usually to be transferred to another department where I have to hold another lengthy amount of time. Hardly ever get my issue resolved yet they increase my bill by $20 every year. They continue to remove channels as they increase the rates. Get less for more money. On Demand is always on the fritz, our local office doesn’t even have a phone number, and the only reason we’re stuck with this company is because the satellite companies can’t get a signal with all of our trees. Calling Monday and canceling my subscription. I’d rather do without TV than deal with this sorry excuse for a business.

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    Staff

    Reviewed Feb. 6, 2018

    Outrageous. They tell me I don't get credit for cancellation until items picked up or return. I called. They say tech supposed to pick up, but they don't know when. I have to wait for this monopoly to pick up and it could take tomorrow or whenever but I must be home or take 2 buses to return them. They are abusive.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Jan. 31, 2018

    Though their internet may be great their customer service is lacking, if I could give less then 1 star I would. Katherine a "supervisor" for their customer care center was not only rude, but cursing on the phone. How is that customer service. Maybe this company should look into who is being the voice of their company. When I asked to talk to her supervisor she kept putting me on hold then would pick the phone up herself. Obviously she knew she was in the wrong and didn't want her superiors to know. Step up your game Atlantic Broadband. You've lost this customer.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Jan. 22, 2018

    Terrible Company, On hold as I write this, I see a charge on my bill for calling 411 when I lost all power, TV, phone, internet after some drunk hit a pole. Phone finally worked & I called to find out what happened & I was charged!!! I'm NOT paying my bill. Screw you like you're trying to Screw me!!!

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Jan. 19, 2018

    Call to discuss account and sit on hold for 15 minutes. We are your customers. We pay your bills. And then to hear you advertise a show called “Smilf” very unprofessional. Thank God my wife didn’t call in.

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    Customer ServicePunctuality & Speed

    Reviewed Dec. 31, 2017

    I was paying for the internet but this year my condominium decide included the faster internet service with the cable service with the condominium expenses. It is the same the service. It is off and on all the time. They have a huge problem. I'm in Sunny Isles Fl. It so frustrating to trying to use the internet because sometime no connect for more than a minute and the setting starts scanning. I do not understand how can they cannot FIX THE PROBLEM. IT'S IMPOSSIBLE CONTINUE LIKE THAT. The worst part no other company we can have. If someone one knows please let me know other choices **. I'm very frustrated for 4 years. Thank you. I call them so many times and they do nothing or they. can do know how to fix it. Thank you.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Dec. 18, 2017

    Just like everyone else I have been on hold for hours. No recording giving the hours they are open or that they are closed at noon every day except Tuesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday - then they are closed all day, unless a holiday falls within the 14 preceding days, then they are closed for all 28 days. No TV, phone or internet AGAIN but there is never anything wrong at their end.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Dec. 17, 2017

    For the past 3-4 days, my internet is down from early morning until about 12-12.30 PM. Called them 3 times on different days, waited for about 2 hours and no one picked up. This is horrible. I have 2 different internet accounts in my house 1- residential 2- business. Both are downs at once.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed Oct. 28, 2017

    My internet service was interrupted (again!) so I called the customer service line. I waited TWO HOURS TWENTY FIVE MINUTES and no one picked up the call. The music just kept playing and the automatic voice recording would occasionally interfere to say, "Due to high call volume someone would answer shortly." I waited and waited and waited, no one answered.

    When someone finally answered and I explained that I’d waited over 2.5 HOURS, he didn’t apologize or anything of the sort, simply said they had a “high call volume” and that at the time I called they had over 100 calls waiting. I said “so TWO AND HALF HOURS??” He simply said yes. I was at a loss for words. It’s a real shame that Atlantic Broadband has monopoly in East Lyme...or at least in my community. Otherwise I would’ve NEVER used their service. I’m going to look into Dish Network and other alternatives. This lack of customer service and their nonchalance is sickening and unacceptable.

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    Staff

    Reviewed Oct. 22, 2017

    We have had ABB since May of 2016 and it wasn't until recently (1month ago) we have started to have Internet issues. About a month ago, we decided to purchase our own Modem and Router so we would be able to save money by no longer paying the Modem/Router Lease fee. Coincidentally since then we have had the Internet drop signal sometimes for a few minutes, sometimes longer. We have contacted ABB what seems to be 10+ times, spoken with multiple Representatives (who were all great btw) and the issues still happen. We have since returned the original purchased modem (Arris Surfboard) and are now using a Motorola Modem. Both Modems purchased off Amazon, and both with stellar reviews mind you. The longest period we did not have any interruptions/issues was when we had to reconnect the leased modem during the period we had returned the Arris and were waiting on the Motorola.

    Bottom line is this, 1+ year with ABB leased modem, 0 issues. 1 month with own purchased modems constant issues. So what this looks like to me is now that I as a consumer no longer wish to pay ABB their modem leasing fee, they are now giving me service issues. I truly want to believe that a company would not conduct itself in such a manner, but I am left with no other choice now than to think this. We know it is not a modem issue as we have tried a second modem.

    Now ABB is sending out a tech to the house to take a look and see if there is something on our end that needs to be fixed. Which seems like yet another way for them to make money as I am sure the tech will find "something wrong" even though there was nothing wrong for the year + I used their modem. If Frontier wasn't the only other option in our area I would have dropped ABB by now. So I feel like a hostage to ABB as I really don't have a choice but to stay with them. I like to give people and business the benefit of the doubt and rarely write reviews, but if it walks like a duck and sounds like a duck... you know where I'm going with this.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Oct. 17, 2017

    I have been calling for almost 2 months to downgrade, no one ever answers. They are always busy. I leave a callback and don't get one. I am now 2 months behind because no one can answer. If I didn't need my internet I would just completely take myself off them.

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    Customer ServiceInstallation & SetupPunctuality & Speed

    Reviewed Oct. 17, 2017

    We have been forced to use Atlantic Broadband as the building I live in does not allow any other provider. I have been using this company for over 4 years now. This company is bad beyond measure. I pay for 100mbps and rarely get half that. Calling the customer service? Good luck! I have actually waited for hours to get to someone. And when you get to someone, it does not end there; they transfer you from one department to another, until you give up. I check the internet speed regularly after realizing that what I pay for is not what I get. I bought a new Apple router for $200 thinking that would solve the issue. It didn't!

    I have spent hours on end trying to speak to someone to get an appointment... the wait is endless. One time I waited all afternoon for a technician and nobody showed up, had to rebook another appointment. The time I wasted dealing with this company is ridiculous. If you have an alternative, take that company. What is amazing is that there are bad reviews similar to mine for years yet they get worse and worse every year; that in itself is an accomplishment.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed Oct. 10, 2017

    Their internet service is awesome but the customer service is terrible. It takes a minimum of 45 minutes to talk to a live person. Also, I wish there was a better selection of Spanish channels.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Oct. 9, 2017

    Atlantic Broadband is fairly good value but in order to get discount you need to combine other features such as phone and internet. When you call for customer support you usually have to wait a long time for them to answer the phone.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed Sept. 27, 2017

    Atlantic Broadband Cable, Internet and Phone service is the ABSOLUTE pits. Their customer service is either nonresponsive or when you do finally get to talk to someone after hrs. of being on hold they are rude. Their service technicians can't seem to diagnose the problem therefore the problem NEVER gets fixed. You will wait weeks for a service call to actually happen (again never correcting the problem), yet they want you to pay for your service a month in advance. They will NOT prorate your bill for the services you paid for but never got. These people are the worst company on the planet, so if you’re thinking about using their services you might want to rethink that, run from this company, run as fast as you can. If you decide to use them I GUARANTEE you WILL regret it.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Aug. 3, 2017

    We are out of internet service again... Day 3... This is the 6th time in a 2 year time span. Our line doesn't run from a pole to our house directly, it actually runs from a pole through several houses' backyards laying loose on the ground or over someone's fence. We are at the mercy of landscapers, weather, critters, vandals, children. This rig looks like it belongs somewhere in a third world country. I had to plea with our new neighbor a few weeks ago to please not to cut the wire as we and our other neighbors depend on it.

    We have complained several times and finally last September when we lost internet again a supervisor came out and promised that they would fix the problem. Guess what... Of course nothing has been done... Every time you call Atlantic Broadband they cannot find any record on our account about the issue and we have complained numerous times. Calling Atlantic Broadband is a nightmare and you will spend hours on the phone. Also every time a tech has to come out you will need to take time off from work... I should start billing Atlantic broadband for all our time lost... Stay clear from this company!

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed July 14, 2017

    Awful Customer Service. It is impossible to talk to them. Average waiting time is 30 minutes or more and then they put you on hold to transfer you to another department and the wait becomes unbearable. Trying to report a problem and get it solved then, is almost impossible.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed May 26, 2017

    I signed up with them and they hooked me up and I had them for 1 week then I noticed my services were disconnected so I called and they told me there was a previous account there. Well they needed my lease then that wasn't good enough so they needed my license. Well now that wasn't good enough so now I spoke with this horrible person Lauren who was very cocky and unprofessional 301-759-4806 number ** and she told me they won't refund my money now until they get their stuff back so I said, "No you can come get it." She is now telling me she won't refund it for another 4-6 weeks and it will be a check. And when I yelled at her she told me how rude and disgusting, trashy and unprofessional I was. Do not waste your time with these people. They will rob you.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed May 12, 2017

    My cable bill increased to $243 in July 2016. Today, 5/11/17, I opened my bill. It's now $326 per month, an increase of $83 a month. I was never notified of the increase. The internet is slow. The TV loses it connection at least once a week. And Customer Service doesn't care. "Just bring back your equipment and we'll stop billing you." Guess what? We've started looking for a new provider for our internet and TV service.

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    Reviewed April 25, 2017

    We have had AB for three years and I cannot think of one positive thing to say about this company. The internet is sllllooowwwww. I live in LA part of the year and have basic internet. My laptop flies when I'm in NOLA and drags when I'm in Perryville. Same computer. Different internet provider. And I'm paying more for the lousy service! Currently in the process of finding another source. I've had it with this company.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed April 12, 2017

    My Mother and I have been having problems with our phone lines, television, and computer connection for 4 months. We do NOT live in the same house - we live 8 miles apart. To call to report a problem entails a 'hold time' for anywhere from 2 - 4 hours. THEN, we have each had technicians come to our houses 3+ times to 'fix' our individual problems. They are STILL not resolved. Mom just told me 2 hours ago that the company gave her credit for all her problems. THEN, her phone went out AGAIN. I have had to keep a LOG of all of my dropped called when I am on the phone. I.T. supervisors are coming to my house on Friday - this will be the 4th trip for the same problem. This company is ridiculous. Poor technicians. Poor communication. Poor supervisors. Poor connections/lines.

    If there was another company to change to, we would... but only God knows how Atlantic Broad Band OWNS/CONTROLS most of the t.v., phone and computer connections in our area. So beyond fed up with this company. I scream at them on the phone at this point. My mother has been robbed and has no neighbors close to her - she cannot be without a phone connection and has trouble using her cell phone. My Android is no walk in the park to pull the dial pad up either if I would need 911. I wish the higher ups in this stupid company had HALF the trouble that my mother and I have been having. ** would be changing for sure if they had problems. With as high as the bills are, they could afford to have a technician on call on every street. I AM SO FED UP.

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    Customer ServicePunctuality & SpeedOnline & AppStaff

    Reviewed April 12, 2017

    I have had problems with Atlantic Broadband's Internet speed. I just conducted a test on THEIR website and these are the results:?4?/?12?/?2017??12?:?12?:?11??PM Download Speed: 61347 kbps (7668.4 KB/sec transfer rate). Upload Speed: 6536 kbps (817 KB/sec transfer rate). Latency: 8 ms. Jitter: 2 ms. It took me hours on the phone to set up an appointment for a representative to come to the house. He told me it was my T.V. or my Satellite provider that is causing my slow internet connection. He did NOTHING. Everything is slow. My T.V., and my computer. I have done multiple tests to check my speed and it's never the speed it should be.

    Today was exceptionally slow but, knew I would spend hours on hold trying to contact customer service so I decided to do the internet chat online. Could not get a representative after about 15 minutes of waiting ABB ends the chat session. I tried 3 times. There are no other internet providers in Warrenville or Aiken city limits. Comcast is barred in my area so broadband is all we have. Isn't that a monopoly?? I HATE ATLANTIC BROADBAND. People in my neighborhood have complained and their internet got even slower after complaining. I think they do that on purpose.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed April 8, 2017

    I have been on the phone now for 1hr 23 min for a technical issue. When a customer service rep finally answered the line and I said I had technical issues, can't watch the channels I have paid for and was automatically debited 3 days ago, rep didn't even let me talk. Just said "I'm transferring you to the technical assistance" and I've been holding on the line ever since with none of my favorite channels available.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed March 14, 2017

    Have been on hold now for 2 hours waiting for someone to pick up the phone regarding our service. We have been having continuous problems with our internet, television, and phone service with no satisfaction following the service technicians visits. Today is fourth day in the last seven that we have had service interruptions. The interruptions are annoying enough, but what is more disappointing is the lack of customer service that Atlantic Broadband offers their customers. AWFUL customer service, if there was another option, we would never keep the service.

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    Sales & Marketing

    Reviewed March 11, 2017

    I am an EXPRESS internet service customer of Atlantic Broadband. Full rack rate per month is $67.99. Advertised download speeds are up to 65 Mbps. I understand that the operative phrase therein is "up to." Nevertheless, after weeks of random speed tests varying days of the week and times of the day, using Atlantic BB's own speed test tool, the average download speed isn't remotely close to the cap. In actuality, it's only 9.2% of the advertised cap (6 Mbps).

    I fully realize other variables are at play, but they are reasonably addressed. I build my own PCs and the one used in testing is a relatively new build with current, top-on-the-line components. Modem download capabilities are in the Gbps. Testing was done hardwired on the line entering the house (although I fully rewired the home with CAT6 when we renovated).

    Considering all of that, I think the problem squarely rests with AtlanticBB. I can only conclude that AtlanticBB's infrastructure (and/or whatever it leases) are subpar and/or AtlanticBB purposefully controls bandwidth. At the discovered test speed average, it's just enough to support generally streaming HDTV and won't noticeably affect email, streaming music, browsing, and most gaming activities. While I realistically don't expect 65 Mbps in download speeds, I DO expect reasonable service for a fair price. And Atlantic BB doesn't provide anything close to that.

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    Customer ServicePunctuality & SpeedStaff

    Reviewed March 1, 2017

    Daily Intermittent internet outages which has a negative impact on my spouse, because part of her job she does from home over the internet. Daily problems with the TV signal dropping for a second or two, maybe three then coming back. Sometimes this happens every few minutes, sometimes every few seconds. Not all channels are affected. No rhyme nor reason. Looks suspiciously like what I've seen happen with satellite TV service providers during bad weather.

    I have called customer service in the past but rarely come away from the experience feeling like anything was accomplished.

    With the internet the problem seems to linger on, so this past Thursday/Friday I called Atlantic Broadband customer service and spoke to a young man that checked out the modem remotely and could tell I've been resetting it from time to time, suggested I might want to purchase my own modem, that the rental modem might be the problem, even though it seemed to check out OK. So I purchased a modem and will set it up later this week and I hope the new modem resolves the issue we have been having the internet for over a year. To be completely honest I don't believe it will, but I'll give it a shot. I'll know soon enough if the new modem solves the problem.

    More recently we have started to experience the problem mentioned in the opening paragraph with the TV and tonight it was just too much having the TV go in and out every few seconds, so I called Atlantic BroadBand customer service. The first call I made I received the same pre-recorded message I've been hearing for years, about being a high value customer and then being given the option to be called back.

    To request the call back all I have to do is press 1, which I did. Well, it didn't work. I found myself on hold. After just under 15 minutes my call was answered. I explained the problem and was instructed to unplug the high definition box connected to the TV and then plug it back in, which I did. I was asked if that took care of the problem. No, the problem didn't go away, but she did. I found myself talking on the phone, but we were no longer connected. So I called back. After going through the menu and the prerecorded you a high value customer and your call is valuable to us recording again, I pressing 1 again for a call back and again found myself on hold. For some reason I get the impression the call back feature was turned off or disconnected. I wonder why?? After waiting for just over twenty minutes I hung up. However, the twenty minutes wasn't a total waste of time.

    I sat down with my spouse and had dinner. OK, so I eat fast. However, when dinner was over and I was still on hold listening the prerecord list of techno stuff Atlantic BroadBand overs and that I would ask my service person about them I was done. I was done chasing the Atlantic BroadBand service unicorn. Atlantic BroadBand service does leave me feeling like I'm chasing a unicorn. My wife and I were considering switching our home phone service from AT&T to Atlantic BroadBand. Well considering how intermittent the internet service has been and the problems with the TV service we wisely decided it was never going to happen.

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    Reviewed Feb. 24, 2017

    First, it took an hour to get somebody in tech support, second the modem did not connect right. Called back, 2 more hours on the phone. They never could get my 6190 Modem to connect. Had to switch back to my older modem. I spent a grand total of about 3 1/2 hours on the phone, only to connect my old modem back!!! WOW.

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    Reviewed Feb. 22, 2017

    Service was not be as fast as speeds promised. Internet is still the fastest in my rural area that I live in. Phone is terrible cuts out, echos, total crap. Called several times over hour wait each time. Just thought I would warn some people. If you have other options go with them!

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    Customer ServiceContract & TermsPriceStaff

    Reviewed Feb. 21, 2017

    Today I called Atlantic Broadband Customer Care because of an increase in my bill. When I signed up for their internet service I was informed that I would be on a promotional price for a year plus any rental fees and that after the 12 month promotional rate I would pay the full price plus rental fees, in which I accepted these terms.

    Last February I saw the increase they told me about and the amount also matched, which again I knew it would increase after 1 year and then I would be paying full price. I call and the info was confirmed. This February comes around and I see another bill increase, so today I decided I would call and see why the increase. When I express my concern and the knowledge to my agreement I was told that regardless of what I was told when I signed up, what she saw on her end was a 2 year promotion, that the amount I had paid in the last year still included a promotional discount but now I would be paying full price. I informed the rep that I did not understand why it showed a 2 year promotional price since I was told last year I was already at full price plus equipment. Again the answer is no matter what I was told this is the new price.

    The problem I have with that is that I was told a year prior I was already paying full price and even asked if there is a way to listen to the audio from when I signed up and when I followed up last year because I understood she is reading what the system said but at the same time it was not what I was told or agreed on when I signed up. Her reply was that unfortunately she could not change the price and she could not deny or confirm what I was told, so she would transfer me to a supervisor. I understood her position and respected it and waited to be transferred.

    When the BRYNN the SUPERVISOR gets on the phone she asked for my account info and asked what the problem was. Again I explained everything from day 1 til the present and this is where things take a very bad turn for the worst. She tells me that regardless of what I was told that Atlantic Broadband had given me credits on year 2 and that the price I will be paying from now on is what I was billed regardless of who told me that I would be paying full price. I let her know that I also work with the public and that a company cannot sign someone up and when they ask for the terms in which they signed up with to be explained and honored that at the very least they could look at what type of offer I was told I would be on since she didn't even know the amount I was to be paying cause when I asked she very quickly and in a condescending manner just kept repeating full price.

    She continues with verbatim "I don't understand what you want me to do. This is the way we do promotions and if you don't want the credits we gave you I can just charge your account the full amount of credits we gave you which will then put you at full price as of last year. Is that what you want me to do? Huh? Huh?" I told her I was not disrespecting her and there was no need for her disrespect. In which she replies "Again I don't know why you are acting so confused and I really don't know what you want me to do. You were on a promotion. Now the promotion is over so you now pay the full amount. I can't just give you a discount just because you wanted to pay full price after the first year but if you didn't like our discount just let me know and I will gladly bill you for them and that should make you happy then since you will get what you are asking for which is pay full price after the first year. Right? Right?"

    Now at this point I'm very angry and still was very polite in saying that all I wanted was for them to honor what I was promised when I signed up and if they looked into it and it was deemed I was incorrect that I'd gladly pay whatever I had to pay. My call was not to get credits or get over on the company. I simply wanted them to look into why I was told I was in a one year discounted price and after that I would be at full price unless there was a plan increase in two different occasions and now I'm being told and billed something completely different. She again goes back to "I can just build you for the credits you received last year if you want me to." Since she wasn't understanding I let her know is that all I wanted them to do was honor what they promised or I didn't want service from a company that makes promises and doesn't honor them and treats people the way she was treating me.

    She tells me she can't help me with that that she will just transfer me to Retention. The lady from retention was very apologetic and actually looked at the account, apologized on behalf of the company for Brynn's actions and explained that all she sees was a 2 year commitment and that she apologized I was told something else. I don't understand why they allow their reps to promise things that are not true and get away with it. I was not calling to get around the system and get credits on my bill. All I wanted was for them to keep their word or clear up how I might have misinterpreted if that was the case. Instead I get Brynn the Supervisor's attitude and disrespect.

    If there was any other provider that was worth my while in this area I would definitely switch providers even if I was to pay double or even triple as long as their customer service is nothing like what I received today. I just got a call for a survey in which was about someone else and I gave them the worst of scores because of how I was treated and left a recording stating that everyone else I spoke with today was very professional but that Brynn was horrible in every way possible.

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    Reviewed Feb. 15, 2017

    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.

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    Reviewed Feb. 2, 2017

    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.

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    Reviewed Feb. 2, 2017

    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.

    My monthly plan was changed without my permission. When I was finally ready to wait on hold for hours I called and spoke with a customer service supervisor who told me she was going to go back into the phone calls and verify that I did not authorize the change and would be getting back to me within the next couple days, I have yet to receive that call. I am currently on my way down to the Waterford location to resolve this issue.

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    Reviewed Jan. 11, 2017

    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.

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    Reviewed Dec. 28, 2016

    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.

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    Reviewed Dec. 16, 2016

    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.

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    Reviewed Dec. 8, 2016

    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.

    Let me also add that although they charge $10.00 per month for each piece of equipment they were charging me $20.00. She said that was because my equipment was a modem/router combo. I argued "so what, it's still one piece of equipment." That was a losing argument. At that point I decided to buy my own. None the less the following month I went to check the balance on my acct only to find that they were charging me $80.00 again. I asked why the problem had not been rectified. The rep said that she was unable to correct it and put me on the phone with a manager. He was rude and arrogant. He told me he wasn't changing the mistake and refuse to take responsibility for it. He told me that my acct would remain as is because I did not pay a deposit. I told him yes I did. He then told me that the $85.00 that they requested as a deposit was actually an installation fee.

    Who charges an installation fee? And who charges an $85.00 installation fee? At this point I told him I was dissatisfied with their service want to cancel. He refuse to refund me my deposit and told me that I still owed them $26.00. I would never recommend Atlantic Broadband to anyone. In fact I would beat the drum, sound the alarm, fly the banner and flash the beacon to discourage anyone from ever using them.

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    Reviewed Dec. 7, 2016

    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.

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    Reviewed Nov. 25, 2016

    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.

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    Reviewed Nov. 7, 2016

    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.

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    Reviewed Nov. 4, 2016

    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!!

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Oct. 31, 2016

    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.

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    Customer ServicePunctuality & Speed

    Reviewed Oct. 20, 2016

    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.

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    Customer ServicePrice

    Reviewed Sept. 19, 2016

    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.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Sept. 14, 2016

    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.

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    Reviewed Sept. 14, 2016

    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.

    Tried to get Atlantic Broadband to lower my bill by taking channels out or just canceling the TV service and keep the internet service only, but the difference in price was so ridiculous (just a couple of dollars less of what I'm paying now for practically getting rid of everything!) that it would not work out. I'm just tired of being at their mercy, I want out! But can't be without internet & TV either!

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    Reviewed Sept. 14, 2016

    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.

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    Customer ServiceStaffReliability

    Reviewed Sept. 11, 2016

    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.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Sept. 11, 2016

    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.

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    Customer ServicePricePunctuality & SpeedStaffReliability

    Reviewed Aug. 30, 2016

    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!

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    Price

    Reviewed Aug. 9, 2016

    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.

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    Reviewed Aug. 5, 2016

    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.

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    Customer ServiceInstallation & SetupPricePunctuality & Speed

    Reviewed Aug. 1, 2016

    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!!!

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    Reviewed July 29, 2016

    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.

    Days went by and no call... so I figured they didn't want my business so I had to go with another company who is awful too! I then find out from my neighbor that Atlantic Broadband's box is on the pole in my yard!!! Really?! So what is this construction??? I call them again and told them that because of their incompetent employees, I now have to deal with a company with lousy internet service! They didn't care.

    Then they sent me one of their offers so I called again and spoke with a supervisor. Guess what?? They are as incompetent as the other employees I spoke to! Again they said they would give me a package deal but I'm on my own if I want to get out of my contract with this other company. I told them that it's their fault that I went with this other company and now pay double!! They didn't care. I spoke then to someone above her - Incompetent! To wrap all this up, Atlantic Broadband is worse than the company I'm currently with! I'm glad to see these other reviews, since this will definitely prevent me from ever getting service from them in the future. I would NEVER recommend them and will definitely tell others not to choose them.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed July 23, 2016

    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!!!

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed July 14, 2016

    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.

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    Online & App

    Reviewed July 14, 2016

    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.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed July 13, 2016

    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.

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    Customer ServiceStaffReliability

    Reviewed July 5, 2016

    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.

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    Reviewed June 26, 2016

    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!!!

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    Staff

    Reviewed June 15, 2016

    This company has very serious security issues that have been verified with them however they have done absolutely nothing to fix them. Not only are they a threat to their own consumers both residential and commercial and those who communicate with them but also their own staff. More can be read about their security problem here: http://www.atlanticbroadband.com. Cogeco purchased this company and their president is also fully aware there is a serious security problem, yet they have still not fixed the problem. This is bad business ethics of the highest level.

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    Price

    Reviewed June 7, 2016

    I'm a student. My budget is tight and I'm shocked abusive practices of Atlantic Broadband. For a week of service, I paid $68 and now he asks me to settle their $106 (after having me demand over $550) while they recover their equipment in good condition. This makes expensive week and I'm afraid to be registered as bad payer but $170 for a week of service seems too excessive to me. Someone can help me please?

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    Reviewed May 17, 2016

    I tried for three days at any time to get in touch with their call center - no success. They have a monopoly in Miami Beach and the worst service orientation I have ever experienced. There isn't even an email address to get in touch. They scheduled an appointment with one of their technicians - nobody showed up nor did I receive a call regarding any delay.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed May 7, 2016

    Ever since Atlantic Broadband took over MetroCast, I have been having difficulty receiving my statement in the mail. I last received it in December, 2015. Rather than taking care of this situation, Atlantic Broadband sends a threatening voicemail and you have to either pay the bill by phone or they cut your service. They claim that they have the correct mailing address for me but I do not receive their bill. I refuse to continue paying the bill by phone so they cut my service. A gentleman from Atlantic Broadband called my cell phone last night and I told him the whole situation (AGAIN) and he totally understood. He said they have had many customers with the same situation. He said to call customer service. Atlantic Broad is very ugly to deal with, they don't care about their customers!

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed April 30, 2016

    I'm not sure how to write how negative an experience I am having with these folks. I have called every night for 2 weeks straight and remained on hold for over 1h waiting for a pickup. One time a guy actually answered only to tell me it needed to be escalated, transferred me, and I again remained on hold for 47 mins... And then the system hung up. This company is ridiculous!!!

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    Reviewed April 17, 2016

    My experience with Atlantic Broadband customer service has been terrible. They treat me like I owe something to them. Took 3 calls to solve a simple problem related to log in to my HBO go account. And a second call regarding the slow internet speed. I was supposed to get download speed at 120 Mb, and was doing 10 to 15Mb. Was on hold for half an hour. Hang up. Will try to change to any other Internet/cable provider service. This is really incredible to pay for this kind of service.

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    Reviewed March 17, 2016

    Had no choice but to get Atlantic broadband in Miami Beach (south). The area where I have my property is monopolized by AB. The worst customer service I have ever experienced. From day one, Nov 2015, I have yet to go through a whole week without calling these bunch of parasites. The modem has been changed, cables have been changed yet there is an ongoing problem. They are liars and could care less for consumers. To get a hold of someone to talk to I calculated more than one hour. Totally disgusting. I was constantly put on hold to achieve nothing. Days on end without service and still waiting for credits for the days of no service. Very nice when you call them to subscribe but after that their excuse is that there's no service throughout the beach area.

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    Reviewed March 14, 2016

    I've been a paying customer for a few years. Overpaying like the rest that have no other choice due to the area they live in. You cannot call customer service without being put on hold for 20 plus minutes. Ever. The people that work for them are rude and not helpful at all. Atrocious. I have never written a review before for a company.

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    Reviewed Feb. 29, 2016

    I changed plans a couple of month ago and the guy who came out to my house was very nice but talked and talked. I work at home and couldn't get anything done. And since then, the internet has never worked properly, but I dreaded calling and having the same guy come out and waste another morning. But our internet went out completely and there were no messages on the customer service line about outages, nor was there any info about them on the website, so I called. I was on hold for 45 minutes. The customer service representative who answered told me there was an outage and that she couldn't do anything about my persistent internet problems, that I would have to call back because she couldn't access my equipment.

    I asked why she couldn't just take a customer complaint and have someone get back to me rather than force me to call back and be on hold for another long period. She insisted that it wasn't possible because they get thousands of complaints and can't possibly call back all of those people! When I said that I thought that customer service was supposed to make an attempt to solve my problem and they hadn't done it, she said, "I'm sorry that you feel that way." I pointed out that I didn't "feel" that way, it was a fact that she had let me wait on hold for 45 minutes only to refuse to offer any help. "I'm sorry you feel that way," she kept repeating, like this was some alternate reality and about my "feelings" rather than about a corporation that takes my money and doesn't provide the promised service.

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    Reviewed Feb. 14, 2016

    I have been with this company since 2012 and my modem signal is always going in and out constantly throughout the day and night! It wasn't that bad before but I purchased a house last year and it has been a nightmare! The techs have been here so many times, I've lost count and I continue to have the same issue! I think the only thing they haven't done is switched my modem box and run a new line from my house to the pole. I keep asking them to try and replace the modem box as I think that could be the issue but the customer service rep just says "I will suggest that but I can't guarantee they will!"

    What the heck?! What happened to "the customer is always right"?! I'm paying $170 a month just for the internet and cable! No phone service! I pay them enough every month so they should do it and honestly, what would it hurt at this point? They've tried almost everything else. Unfortunately I'm stuck with their poor service because I live in a small town and there are no other cable internet providers. I swear if there were, I'd leave in a heartbeat! I seriously think this cable company is shady and not just because of what I'm going through! Many other customers will agree.

    I'm a pretty fair person and I understand problems arise no matter what company you go through, but this is ridiculous anymore! It's to the point where they're going to have to send a tech every month and every time they send a tech out, it takes a week or longer! They never offer me discounts for all my trouble unless I tell them I want one and then I will only get a few dollars off my bill! What the heck?! I've had techs out here numerous times and it always takes them a week or longer to get here so in the meantime, I'm stuck dealing with my internet going in and out constantly! I deserve more money off of bill than a few bucks! They wouldn't hesitate to shut my service off if I didn't pay my bill though!!! So annoyed with this company and it honestly makes my stomach turn! Shame on you, Atlantic Broadband!!!

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    Reviewed Feb. 8, 2016

    Along with everyone else in my area, I lost my power and cable Friday, February 5th due to snow ladened tree limbs falling and taking the wires down with them.

    The electric company cut and removed the brush and limbs and by midnight on Saturday my power was restored. Between the time I lost power and the time I regained it, I received 2 phone calls and messages reporting the progress they were making and my status relative to others. I was also able to check in on their site to see if the target time for my hookup had changed.

    In the meantime my "new neighbor" (Atlantic BB had recently acquired Metrocast Cable who covered my area in CT and proceeded to inundate us with an advertisement campaign claiming there was a "new neighbor" in town...THEM). Well, they were quick to bump up the cost affecting most every feature they offered on January 1st. And then they disappeared. They cannot or they will not let me know where I stand or provide any insight as to when I can expect to be reattached. I rely on the net for my business from my home.

    It's Monday evening and after driving around locally, they are nowhere to be found. It wouldn't have been so bad if they hadn't filled our faces and our minds with all that neighbor propaganda. My neighbors and I would like for them to back up their bull and either get us hooked up or let us know if we can expect them here soon.

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    Reviewed Feb. 1, 2016

    I really hope this gets to the correct person, corporate preferably. I would like to let you know about an incident that happened to me Jan 27, 2016. I would like to let you know I work from home so my internet is very important to me. Also I have a husband with many health problems which is why my phone service is important. Of course we all love to watch tv. I had an Atlantic Broadband technician come to my area yesterday and I noticed him working on the cable box that sits in my yard. I had no problems with my service so I was surprised to see anyone out there but I just figured they were working checking since we had the snow storm this week. I was in the middle of my day working and my internet went out. Again I figured they had to fix something. The next thing I know he is gone. No internet, no phone service, no cable.

    I called the company and they told me they could get someone down here tomorrow. Really. It was working fine until the guy came down and messed with the box. After several phone calls, a couple of hours on the phone and honestly getting very nasty, they said they would get someone down that night, which they did. I honestly felt sorry for the guy that had to come and fix the previous person mistake, because the 'technician' if that is what you want to call him, that had come down earlier in the day had completely removed my cable and I mean completely pulled it out of the ground. Because it was so late the new tech had to run another cable across the ground to the house for us to have service. Thank goodness. In the snow, in the cold, in the dark, he did not give up and found the problem.

    I do have a couple of questions, why would you pull a cable up that is hooked to a house? If there was an issue do you not think it would of been better to fix the problem, not that it was broke, then disconnect everything. Just to add to this problem, I am 66 years old and when I went out to show the tech the cable box I fell on the ice, did not get hurt thank goodness. Then as my grandson ran out to tell the tech everything was good he fell on the ice and ended up in the emergency room with a very badly sprained knee. Just because of one tech's mistake he completely set a whole household in turmoil. We are in an area where we do not have many options for cable or I would not be using your service any longer. I have been a long standing customer for quite a while and make sure my bill is always paid but I am very disappointed in how this whole issue started and ended.

    Now they are telling me it will be 7 to 14 days before they can come out and correctly re-hook the cable. Hopefully nothing happens with it laying out in the open before they can get here to fix it. If I ever see another person near the cable box I will be out there watching their every step and make sure everything is correct before they leave I can tell you that. It is a shame when you pay as much as it cost just to have the service, which I feel is way too high, that someone can make such a stupid mistake.

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    Reviewed Jan. 27, 2016

    When I signed up for their service everything was going smooth. I read the reviews people had but since this is a monopoly I had no other choice. For the first few months I had no issues with internet so I thought people were exaggerating about how horrible this company is. Fast forward five months and internet doesn't work at all. I managed to get it back albeit extremely slow (5 mbps). I called them to get the issue fixed and every time I do what they say the internet stops working. It took me several exhausting phone calls with their SPECIALISTS to figure out that there is something not right. They brought over a technician and he told me that my modem has an issue. When he put the company's modem while being on the line with an engineer it miraculously went back to normal speed ~ 80 mbps.

    He told me that it's not their fault and the modem is broken. The trick worked on me I guess, so I bought the exact same modem he had and that didn't work at all. Before buying the new modem I called ARRIS about my existing modem to see if I can get them fix it. They took me through all the procedures and finally they looked at the data coming out from my modem itself. They showed me that Atlantic Broadband is giving me bad internet. I was supposed to be receiving 4 upstream channels when I only had 1. In addition the voltage was too high for the modem to handle. So I thought maybe they were not being honest. But when I brought the brand new modem it proved that Atlantic BB is not being honest at all.

    Currently, I've been on the line for half an hour now waiting for someone to answer my phone call regarding this issue. I don't think someone will answer me any time soon. It's sad that the government is doing nothing about a horrendous company like this one. I've been paying on time and all this money has gone to waste because for the past 6 months I've had extremely slow internet. I usually need fast internet to play games or download important files. I would sue them if I knew how!!! This company stagnates productivity which makes them a threat to national security. I hope they get shut down soon. What a disgrace having a company like that in Miami.

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    Reviewed Jan. 9, 2016

    Atlantic BB cable services, customer service (oxymoron) and technical service are all a sick joke. This is the worst company I have ever dealt with. Hours on hold for service, always one week or more for a service technician to be scheduled and the problem is NEVER theirs. It is ALWAYS a content provider. Funny thing, when you want to add services, your call is answered in seconds and the technician is out to install in a day or two for new install!

    We have not been able to consistently access video on demand (VOD) for months. Their favorite fix is to "refresh the signal" or blame the equipment, blame the content provider, schedule a tech for service, we wait a week for him to come only to scoff at the company and say it is a system problem and that there isn't anything he can do. We upgraded to all new TiVo equipment thinking maybe that would solve the problem. What fools we are! Same crap, same poor service, same excuses, same no VOD. Where are the regulators and the people that are supposed to be looking after and monitoring these companies that have monopolies on these types of public services??? Atlantic BB is a vile, unconscionable company that should be put out of business.

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    Reviewed Jan. 5, 2016

    We were having problems streaming movies and getting an on screen message that our internet speed was not adequate. I did an online check and found the internet upload and download speed was not as high as we were supposed to get with our plan. I called Atlantic Broadband and the automated message said that call volume was higher than normal and the wait could be long but I could leave a callback number and the next available representative would return my call. BTW, that is the message I have gotten every time I have called for as many years as I have had their service. I decided to wait for a while but 45 minutes later I could not wait any longer so I left a callback number. 2 hours later I got a callback but at the time I was in a movie theater and couldn't answer.

    The next day my wife called Atlantic Broadband and after finally getting through she was transferred to technical support and was on hold for 3 hours without ever having anyone pick up in technical support. The next day I called back again and left a callback number and after a couple more hours finally got a return call. They did a test and confirmed our speed was not correct and said someone would come by in 2 days. That will be tomorrow... We'll see. There is no excuse to keep a customer on hold for 3 hours without answering. Problem is, they are the only internet company in town! Talking to friends, neighbors and even the local cell phone store, I am not alone in my frustration!

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    Reviewed Jan. 2, 2016

    I do not what else I can add to all the other one star ratings this company gets, except when I went to cancel. I called their customer support and got answered within 5 minutes, but once I told them I want to cancel my account, the whole "hold on let me transfer you" happened. Of course, that line never got answered after 40 minutes. This company deserves to lose their FCC cable license and their CEO thrown in jail, not for letting their customers cancel over the phone, but for their monopolizing areas to extort their customers.

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    Reviewed Dec. 31, 2015

    I have had ATLANTIC bb. for over 20 years. Their service sucks big time. They never answer their phones or return calls. Tonight was on hold for 2 1/2 hours with no help in sight. Supposedly a supervisor will call me tomorrow. Not holding my breath. They won't give me credit memo for 12 days of no service. Ryan in tech finally answers, gives me appointment for ONE week. How can I Saturday without a computer for that long. And then he transfers me to ANDREA that doesn't know her elbow from a hole in the wall. Does anyone know who I can replace them. It seems like they have a monopoly in Miami Beach. Think I will go with the hotspot and cancel them totally. I think everyone should do that and when they lose lots of customers, then they might care.

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    Contract & Terms

    Reviewed Dec. 24, 2015

    I have been trying for over a month to connect with a Customer Rep to cancel one channel from my accounts. All the numbers are always busy and the chat unavailable. Can somebody provide a number where they have been able to talk to somebody in the company? It will be high appreciated. Have a very happy Holiday season. My service address is in Miami Beach, FL 33141. Thanks. P.S. I cannot change provider because the Condo Association has a contract with this terrible company. Any help will be welcome. Happy Holidays.

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    Reviewed Dec. 21, 2015

    I have had Atlantic Broadband for a year now, and have had problems with it from the beginning. When it works, it's fine, but you never know when it's going to go out. I've called numerous times, often hanging up after being on hold for 30 minutes to an hour--It seems they always have "higher than average call volume". Now they are increasing my rate by $20, and excuse it by saying it's still a discounted rate, even though my service still comes and goes. The problem is that they know that options are limited in our area, so they feel no need to offer even mediocre customer service.

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    Reviewed Dec. 14, 2015

    They are a monopoly in my area. I have been trying to log in to pay, and it says "Error: We are unable to register this account online. Please contact our customer representative." I have called four times, chatted 18 times (they keep saying a tech person would come on the line, and then just leave the chat). So I can't pay! Service sucks! Wifi gets disconnected every hour, and it's supposed to be the top of the top - and expensive too! I have now 3 hours on hold, and still no one to talk to for the fifth time...

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    Reviewed Nov. 25, 2015

    I had ABB for almost two years now. This company cares nothing about their customers. I guess they have so many, they can afford to lose one or two to the nonsense they put out. If you're even a day late on your bill they will cut you off. I called them a couple of times to ask for an extension they declined. Sometimes I would pay a partial payment because I had other bills to pay and they would still cut me off. The worst is when they cut you off right before the holidays. They have no compassion for their customers. I was paying 150 a month just for basic cable and internet. Never got any promotions or anything for being with them for so long. This company should be shut down.

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    Price

    Reviewed Nov. 22, 2015

    They are hands down the absolute worse cable provider I ever had in my 40+ years. Their technology is antiquated and poor quality. The pricing is double what other providers charge. I pay $200 per month for just cable service and they tell me that's special pricing. The picture and sound goes out every few minutes. This company has a poor rating but the BBB and FCC won't do anything about it. They are getting away with highway robbery at our expense. And they monopolize my area as the only provider. I stopped watching TV most days because its a horrible experience for me. We need to shut them down.

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    Reviewed Oct. 27, 2015

    I have had them over for technical issues way too often. Hold time on the calls average 1 hour 20 minutes. They did not solve the problems plus they hang up on you with a "you have a good day, ma'am." It is time to finish with the monopoly of cable companies within a community. They do not care because you can't use anybody else. I would cancel today if I have an option.

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    Reviewed Oct. 24, 2015

    My old cable company (Metrocast) was just purchased by Atlantic Broadband. I received a call from a "wireless caller" (no company name came up) on 10/22. I can't understand the message. I hear "outside Pole" "make a payment," and think it's the wrong number. I pay it no attention. The following evening (10/23), I turn on TV and NO CABLE. I call Metrocast/AB to find out what the problem is. Call NUMBER 1, I get through and then cut off. CALL No. TWO, I get a different woman who transfers me to Customer Service... 20 minutes on hold (I even took a shower and washed my hair during that time!!). I get out of shower and hang up very frustrated. CALL THREE, I get a different person who tells me that I have missed two payments. I say that is not possible because I just made my Oct. payment, which she told me is "pending"??? Really. She says you have missed September's payment, too.

    I ask for a Supervisor and I get "Michelle". She repeats that I have missed two payments and I say "You have October's payment". I explain that I had a one day notice from the "wireless caller" guy who I thought was a wrong number and I had received no turn-off notice in the mail. She said "You missed two months and that is fair enough notice". To get the cable back on she wants me to pay a 40.00 re-connect fee, which I balk at and want retracted. And she wants a one month ahead payment, which I grudgingly pay. I ask for Corporate's number and she gives it to me but adds in, "They'll (meaning Corporate) tell you the same thing I have." I will be calling Corporate on Monday regardless if they repeat what she says or not. They are going to hear from me.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Oct. 14, 2015

    We had two equipment constantly changed due to the equipment being old and not working properly. Our bill would go up every month with no notification. When you call to find out why, you're placed on hold for an hour to get no explanation. When trying to downgrade our service, we were told it would be taken care of immediately. This did not happen. When calling back again you're placed on hold again for an hour to only be told the person you need to talk to will have to call you back. No callback. Receive bill, it's for full amount. I send letter with my payment explaining my service was reduced and expect a credit. No call or response. Receive new bill, full amount again. I call and after being transferred to 5 different people. I'm told they can only credit back one month. Hopefully, my service will be reduced and taken care of properly this time. I have absolutely no confidence. Horrible customer service!

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    Customer ServicePricePunctuality & SpeedStaffReliability

    Reviewed Oct. 1, 2015

    I've had Cable TV here in Uniontown, Pa. for years starting with Charter and now it's Atlantic BB and have been very satisfied. Their technicians and call center are very professional and the very limited problems we had were resolved quickly. When they had to enter our home they even put protective plastic over their shoes to keep from tracking dirt in. We have a bundle with TV, Phone, & Internet 30 Mbps down, 2 Mbps up, 2 Converter boxes (1 with a DVR ) Extra HD channels included. Would give them a 5 star review any day. We get 200+ TV channels. Price just rose to $217./Mo but worth every penny... The quality and reliability is the BEST.

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    Reviewed Sept. 18, 2015

    In one month my bill went up 40.00. I can't believe tv is so expensive, just might cancel my tv and go to Netflix.

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    Reviewed Aug. 25, 2015

    Every single day I disconnect from the Internet on average 5 times an hour. I can't play online games because of this and I can barely watch movies on the Internet. This is the worst service I have ever been provided. If you have a choice unlike me never settle with Atlantic Broadband because you will regret it.

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    Contract & Terms

    Reviewed Aug. 5, 2015

    Do not buy modem from Atlantic unless you get it from day one of your contract. I bought mine after 10 month of renting it. Atlantic never told me they only give 30 days after purchase and the one year guarantee from the factory runs since the day Atlantic get the modem from them. Mine got broken after 4 months of purchase and neither Atlantic or factory get responsible. They just steal my money.

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    Reviewed July 18, 2015

    I have long been suspecting that Atlantic Broadband has been throttling our connection. I finally decided to test it with a vpn. Download speeds were drastically different. Beforehand the download was 2.32 mb/s. Afterwards it was 25.02 mb/s. Net neutrality is not ABB's strong point. I've read reviews of peoples' internet speeds 'magically' going back to the speed they paid for when a technician is sent out. Internet throttling is not cool, you shouldn't need to use a vpn to get somewhat decent service. I am seriously considering switching to Verizon after this.

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    Reviewed June 4, 2015

    I did think Dish was bad and I can say Atlantic Broadband never stole anything from me! I decided to try them for all services in early April. Install date was the 24th and it was delayed as they needed to update the cable. Well they had a contractor hang it from a 60 plus year old pole in a 90 degree turn no guy wire. One of the old Three Springs Cable Poles my parents put up when they owned the cable. Same day I called as the pole shifted and began to fall towards a home with three small children.

    June rolls around cable long up no service and it rains. Pole starts sliding and I can now touch the line in my field. I call again and they agree to take the line down as it is my pole my liability. They simply cut the new line to shreds to get it down, what a waste. Now I am glad it did not get installed; I will admit my old phone company CenturyLink might be slow. But, I will give CenturyLink four plus stars for service and support. Now I can say glad I am staying with them. Atlantic Broadband is wasteful and lacks follow through; maybe they thought the tooth fairy hooked up my service???

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    Customer ServicePricePunctuality & Speed

    Reviewed June 1, 2015

    I pay $80 a month for fastest internet speed. I have a 75MBPS/5MBPS and when I first signed up I got speeds close to that. For the past few months I noticed my speeds were super slow... Speed Tests showed speeds at around 5MBPS / 2MBPS upload, which is like a basic package which costs like $30 approx I imagine. I pay double that and for weeks it stayed at this speed. I called and they said that they would have to send someone out and of course would charge me $$ for it. So the day the guy is supposed to come to appointment at 4 PM. I check speeds all morning... they say to me its prob. a bad router that went bad. Funny speeds were same all morning at 5/2MBPS... then at 4 PM he calls 15 mins before to say he is on his way. I go and check the speeds and INSTANTLY they go up to 70MBPS/5MBPS!!

    UNBELIEVABLE!!! NOTHING WAS DONE!! So he shows up and I tell him that speeds are fine now but for past weeks like nearly the past month internet speeds were super slow at 5/2. He says that it's fixed now and I asked him if they are throttling my speed and he told me NO. But the proof is there now man... not even 2 days later, speedtest.net shows my speeds are EVEN slower... Now I am getting 2/2MBPS... UNBELIEVABLE!!! They know exactly what they are doing... they allow max speeds when techs are sent out and then after a few days they throttle it. I want a FULL REFUND for my speeds being so low and am thinking of legal action for this. It's ILLEGAL what they are doing!

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    Reviewed May 24, 2015

    We have been AtlanticBB customers for the past 6 years and even with all the changes they supposedly made our internet connection is way too slow. We have been trying to watch a movie on my Kindle and we are unable to do it because our "broadband" width is not great enough to stream the movie! I have called them in the past but not this time. I was told previously that the problem was my computer. I was also told that the service I signed up for should be speedy enough unless I am running a business from my home. We pay far too much each month to be getting this kind of service.

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    Reviewed May 14, 2015

    I installed a bundled package with Atlantic Broadband. I noticed reviews are mostly from Florida. I am based out of Western Maryland. I used to have Verizon, who actually sucks for this area. No connection, they wouldn't fix it. Pay an arm and a leg for service that never works at a connection speed of 7 mbps... Phone/Internet $90. Their rates went up for junk.

    Meanwhile, I went with Atlantic Broadband instead. The cable, phone, and internet is excellent. I have had no connection problems at all. 30 mbps and bundle package at $100. They are the better service around here compared to the lack of what we had prior. However, when you call the 888 # for technical support no one answers their phone!!! I just needed to locate my email/wifi password! That's all I need. It says 24 hours a day someone is available to talk to. I even went on their chat with someone option, an hour later no one has responded to that either. I am peeved... Pick up the phone!!! Or respond on the chat feature... If it wasn't for that I would otherwise be happy with 5 stars.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed May 3, 2015

    Ordered a Pay Per View event that was worth almost $100. Couldn't get the event to show up. Called customer service twice before the event and was put on hold for over 1.5 hours. I couldn't get anyone on the phone and couldn't watch the event. Spoiled my fight night party at home. Spoke to a supervisor the next day and she blamed it on equipment failure, although I've had the equipment at home for over 2 years. Horrible customer service, can't get through to a useless person after waiting for hours. I will never use this incompetent company again!

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    Reviewed April 13, 2015

    Atlantic BB is just about worthless. They are the only game in town. So they have all their customers over a barrel. They have been working on service problems for 60 days at least. Their attitude has a lot to be desired. They say they have no idea when service will be restored. They blame an outside vendor for all their problems. As soon as a good service provider comes to town, it's goodbye to these morons.

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    Reviewed March 6, 2015

    Worst consumer service ever, I feel like fish in a can! I move to South Miami two years ago, not too much option to choose for a cable TV, I decided to use Atlantic, and since then is a nightmare. Internet never works, so slow and I'm paying for a package 30 Mbps/3 Mbps. The customer service is horrible, after two years I ask if they can change my package because I don't want to pay 30 dollars more if I saw another offer that I can pay less money and get better service. They said, "no, that is for new customers." so old customers have to pay more and more money, if not, the customer service said I have to cancel, return everything and return as a new customer!! That is insane!

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    Reviewed March 5, 2015

    I have had Atlanta broadband now for 6 months. Pay 130 month for cable and 75 mb connection and at best I get 1 mb connection and have complained many times with no success. Every time I call I get excuses. It sucks that this is the only option here. So ** abb get your ** together and quit robbing people. Also I thought it was funny that there is not ONE good review about this service provider.

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    Reviewed Feb. 14, 2015

    I'm living in Aventura FL. No recommend the internet Atlantic Broadband. The internet is good for nothing. I'm complaining six months. No one can fix the internet. Stops for a few minutes, seconds each day very often and you cannot work.

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    Customer ServicePrice

    Reviewed Jan. 31, 2015

    I'm paying $80/month for 75mbps, yet the fastest speed I get is 41mbps on my laptop. 29.1mbps on my PS3, but only if it's connected via Ethernet cable, if I'm running wireless, it's only about 16mbps. I am using the Cisco DOCSIS 3.0 modem/router, provided by them for a mere $8/month. I've called customer service, and while I'm on the phone with them, it miraculously reaches the speeds foretold in my bill. But that is short lived as it's back down within hours. So I call back, they send a technician. Since I pay the $8/month for wire maintenance, it doesn't cost me anything for the service call.

    Upon arrival, he checks all my connections to make sure none of them are loose. I point out that the tech that installed my service, used an existing cable on the outside of the house, which has been exposed to the elements for the past 30 years, and suggest that that could be the problem. Apparently I was wrong and it was something on the other end. So he calls customer support, once again, it miraculously reaches proper speeds, and off he goes. Later that day, back down to 1/2 speed. Pure and total BS.

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    Reviewed Jan. 28, 2015

    I have been an Atlantic Broadband customer for over 8 years now and lately their service has been atrocious. It makes me want to vomit. I pay 423 dollars a month, have all the premium services thinking I would get better quality and it's all lies. Internet constantly drops all the time. I've scheduled countless technicians to come fix the problem and none have fixed it successfully. Every time I call, they just tell me I'm in a blackout zone. Apparently, I've been in a blackout zone for over 8 months. I cannot count on this internet service for any of my conference calls online, or for active updates with stock market software. IT HAS COST ME THOUSANDS in day trading.

    Their customer service is just as bad. Technicians cancel calls because it's not convenient for them to come to my apartment due to traffic. Their phone support always has some snarky, sarcastic person from New Hampshire that speaks to you in the most condescending tone imagined, without ever fixing the problem. I have requested a new router several times and they WILL NOT REPLACE IT even though I know it is an issue. DO NOT GET ATLANTIC BROADBAND. THEY JUST LOST A LOYAL CUSTOMER FOR 8 YEARS DUE TO CRAP SERVICE IN ALL ASPECTS. AND I DOUBT THEY CARE. I hate them more than Hitler!!!! I WILL DO EVERYTHING IN MY POWER TO MAKE SURE EVERYONE KNOWS THIS!!!

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    Reviewed Jan. 19, 2015

    After requesting to close my account, they told me I would have to go deliver the equipment at their facility, or I would have to wait for them to pick up. After 45 days they finally picked up the equipment but charged me for those days!!!

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    Sales & Marketing

    Reviewed Jan. 3, 2015

    While contemplating a switch to Uverse, I noticed a charge on my account for "HDTV Extra" at $12.99 a month. I have been charged this for at least the last 6 months. When I asked about this today, I was told that it was a charge for the following channels - 500 Velocity HD, 501 One World Sports HD, 502 Universal Sports HD, 503 Smithsonian HD and 504 AWE HD. I have never even heard of these channels let alone would I have ordered them! They told me that they could only cancel the channels and would not be reimbursed for past charges. I will be filing a formal complaint. I was just wondering if anyone else has these charges on their account for these very odd channels that very few people would be interested in. I have a feeling that this is another scam.

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    Reviewed Jan. 3, 2015

    Atlantic Broadband does not provide the speeds it boasts, has constant outages, doesn't respond to customer concerns when there is an issue and while publicly states it will reimburse customers for outages, I have now been on hold with Atlantic Broadband Customer Service, listening (via speakerphone/unlimited cell plan) to their hold music, with intermittent advertisements from "The Leading Broadband Services Provider" for the past 68:01 minutes, still holding for the monopoly's account management representative to answer. Write the Miami Beach City Manager "Jimmy Morales" on the Miami Beach Government's contact website and insist on competition on the beach (Comcast, AT&T, others) to break this monopoly's stranglehold on the beach's residents.

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    Reviewed Dec. 30, 2014

    No choice but to use this service... I have called since December 4th for a new remote control, which I was told I needed. Their customer service and managers are incompetent...I have called three times since... My last one today and have had enough... If you do not have to use this cable service I would NEVER consider this company!!! PATHETIC!!! NO STARS!!!

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    Reviewed Dec. 29, 2014

    People only review when things go wrong... I had Comcast for many years and was generally satisfied with them. Only issues with Comcast were reasonable (outages happen from time to time). I moved to an area where the cable option was AtlanticBB. On install the tech was going to be late so he called while he was in another job, that was nice. When he showed up he didn't have the right box and was from hours away. He was able to track one down for us that was a bit closer.. some install issues after he left where fixed rather quickly. Wasn't happy about it but mistakes happen from time to time.

    In about 9 months there have been a couple small outages during extreme weather.. understandable yet still frustrating. Services where restored in a reasonable amount of time given the situation. The few times I needed to talk to someone people where reasonably knowledgeable, I am in the IT field so maybe it is easier for me to explain the situation to them better than the average person. The local office is friendly and helpful as well though they rarely have the answers I am looking for.

    I have never had an issue getting disconnected either from support chat or voice but we use our own phones that are not through AtlanticBB. All in all the only real complaints I have are that there are only a handful of HD channels, only offer 75mbps internet and the price. However they are comparable to other cable companies in the region. Perhaps I'm just lucky, or maybe I am more understanding than many of the other reviewers.

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    Verified purchase

    Reviewed Dec. 13, 2014

    When I first got your internet service the speeds were fantastic, but updating now has slowed down considerably. Is this normal?

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Nov. 22, 2014

    I recently purchased a brand new house (in May 2014 - it is now November) in the middle of nowhere, PA. In this town there are two options for internet providers: ABB and Windstream. I had Windstream service for YEARS and thought there couldn't be anything more frustrating or unproductive as their internet service. Boy, was I wrong! I have a google drive document timestamping repeating events of the internet just randomly disconnecting on our XBox. Just tonight, it has disconnected itself three times. The modem is brand new - it was just put in in May. The router, which I thought may be the problem, was just replaced last Saturday - November 15, 2014. (Less than a week.) Our XBox is hard-lined into the router through a wall via a cord about 6 feet long. Nonetheless, it consistently disconnects itself.

    I called last Saturday night (after repeated calls where no one picked up and I was on hold for over thirty minutes) to receive satisfaction from this issue. We are paying almost $70 a month for internet ONLY that promises 15 mbps. When I told them of my issue, in the fact that everything is BRAND SPANKING NEW, so what in the wide world is exactly happening, I was told that they could send a technician who, after proving it wasn't anything wrong on their end, would CHARGE ME for the service. Excuse me?! Homey does NOT play that game. So now I have to spend my Thanksgiving vacation fighting with this horrid company. Again. Boy, am I ever mad. Don't EVER get this company if you can get anything else. A hole in the end is almost preferable.

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