Astound internet service was installed Feb 6, 2026. On Feb 26, 2026 they had to come out again due to an error message repeatedly saying "no internet". The the original installer apparently didn't complete the job and neglected a step. On March 30, 2026, I started receiving the same error message "no internet". This went on for 2 or 3 hours before internet service resumed without constant interruptions of no internet service. Yesterday April 8, 2026, at approximately 2:48pm I started receiving the same message "no internet". I rebooted, shut everything down and restarted. It worked for about 5 min before saying the same thing. So I called Astound and was told that I was going to need someone to come out because something was wrong AGAIN! I've only had Astound for 2 months and a technician has been required twice within that time frame. So everything I've heard about Astound appears to be true! Very Dissappointed! read more

Avoid this company and their predatory pricing at all costs. They are charging us way, way, way more than than is reasonable for the insanely low level of service they are providing and when we try to cancel they want nearly 10K in early termination fees. There are much better options. Edit: I contacted customer service prior to coming here. That's where I got through nearly 10k to cancel figure. I don't know how you can justify $500/month for 100mbps service and then charge that absurd cancellation fee, but others need to be warned about you. read more

They doubled my price after I renewed my lease with my apartment that only allows third services. I told them to give me slower and whatever was cheaper internet and the customer service representative told me the slower internet was more expensive then what I was paying. I'm paying 80$ for a one bedroom apartment with one person. I have 1 tv and 1 phone. 80$ a month. Insane work, I call to cancel because I'm moving and then they offer to lower the price. They are a scam. read more

This is about what they decided AFTER I requested to discontinue with them. On February 16th Astound was notified on the phone that their service was no longer wanted. February 16th. Since my bills were all paid to them they told me that I would be paying for service until March 14th. I requested a pro rata refund after February 16 and was DENIED! Though I took the service of a competing company, I was told that I must pay until March 14th and I have no choice in the decision. I cancelled because their internet was constantly shutting down. Recently I had to go 30 hours without internet. This company did not have the decency to give me a pro rated refund. They are keeping money that they should not keep. How sad! read more

If I could write a lower review I would. this company has zero communication skills and will hit you with a 600 dollar charge without telling you. I will never use this company again and would not recommend it to anyone either save your money and save your patience because this company will try and exhaust both. They truly need to figure out how to treat their customers. read more

Terrible, terrible service. I was with Grande for many years before it was acquired by Astound. I was always relatively happy with the service, price and customer support. Since the acquisition, my service became increasingly erratic, often going out for anywhere from an hour to a day. Each time, I called Astound and was told the problem was on my end and to fix it, I would need to pay $75 to have a technician come to my house. Each time, the issue resolved itself. The final time, service was out for several days. I made the switch to Google Fiber and on the day it was activated, called Astound and canceled my service. The next day, an Astound salesperson left me a voicemail acknowledging my cancellation and offering to give me a discounted rate to renew. I declined to respond as there was no way I was going back, but the next billing cycle, I was charged for service post-cancellation with the discounted rate applied. I called Astound on a weekend and after a lot of back and forth, was told I needed to talk to a manager but one wasn't available. The rep promised a call back, which I never received. I called Astound again on a weekday and the rep told me that for some reason my account had been canceled as requested, then reactivated with the discount applied. I was told I needed to stop automatic payment through my credit card or it would be charged and I'd have to request a refund. I did so -- received a confusing statement today that applied an overcharge credit from the month before but then applied a customer loyalty charge for the billing cycle post-cancellation, mostly negating the refund. I'm too fed up and exhausted to inquire into that piece. So far, Google Fibre has been reliable and the charge is upfront with the promise that it won't inexplicable be raised in the future (another issue with Astound - the charges just kept going up. I have no idea how this company stays in business. I strongly advise anyone interested in their services to stay away!!! read more

I have just handed my EERO device to an Astound technician. An Astound technician left this behind in my apartment. I will be charitable and say that his neglect was accidental. Astound charged my account $130 for their technician's mistake. Now my question is how long it will take Astound to refund my money. My guess is they will take their sweet time. This company disrespects its clientele at every move. It takes about 15 minutes to listen to its commercials and tell what department you need. Your wait sets the stage for their dishonesty, denials, and general avoidance of dealing with the customer's problem. My advice: AVOID ASTOUND if you can. read more

I am a person that rarely leave reviews but honestly I need to inform others about this company. I have internet interruptions "EVERY MONTH" no exaggeration. This last for at least 2 to 3 days -all day! When you call to resolve or see why your services are being interrupted, no one and I mean no one can find a root issue. No neighborhood outages, bad weather or power outages -it just don't work. Then they will try and troubleshoot from their end -which doesn't work. Next, they will schedule a technician to come out & check out the issue -well you never get to see the technician because they will cancel the appointment without any reason to why it was canceled. This will continue to happen for about a year. At this point enough is enough. I am clearly paying for a service that is unreliable or trustworthy, & no I do not stay in a rural area or a dead zone. read more

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I thought the equipment return process was easy... until I was charged about $92.02 due to "lost equipment". I returned all astound equipment I was provided but because they didn't receive something that I did not have, I was charged. I think initially installation went well and the day-to-day service was ok. This ISP was the only choice we had. read more

Alright, so i genuinely despise this internet, because how is it going to be buffering on YOUTUBE for a minute and a half, play for a few seconds and then stop working again. It does this every day. ALL DAY. I'm so tired of it but its what we have unfortunately. now sometimes it does work for like an hour and when it works it works pretty good, but other than that it is horrible. DO. NOT. GET. read more

I had my first bad experience with Grande/Astound today. My Internet went out around 2:00pm yesterday. I called and their automated system said there was a problem at my house they would have to send a technician out to check. System also said the first available slot was between 10:00 and noon, which I took. And the system called me at 5:00 to confirm I still wanted the 10-12 appointment. Before 10:00 I checked and Internet was still unavailable. So planted myself on the couch to wait. (I can't go in to the office, I have to meet the technician. I can't log in remotely, I have no Internet.) Noon rolls around and no one has showed or called, so I call Astound to check on their progress. And was very surprised for the automated system to tell me my appointment slot was between 8:00am and 9:00pm! So I ask for an agent and he is confused by the situation, too. He sees a small entry in the computer that he thinks means they found a larger outage? He asks me to check my cable model, and to my surprise it shows it's connected. So kudos to Astound for fixing the problem. But minus 500 points for not keeping the customer informed and letting me waste valuable work time (as I get paid hourly). (I'll accept responsibility for squandering another 15 minutes to write this review.) I'd always been happy with Grande's customer service--I've been with them for many years. I was a little worried when Astound took them over, but initially I was getting the same great customer service. I'm hoping today was just a glitch and not an omen of things to come... read more

Forced to use this service at my apartment for $66/mo despite all their ads for $30 and $35/mo. What a scam.

these people scam , they tell you one price at the begging and then they will bill you more. i keep giving them the benefit of doubt but Not after my bill went up to 200$ for WIFI. and wen you want to cancel services they keep asking if you don't wanna keep paying with them and they will give you a "discount" of 15$ off , wild. DO NOT GET WIFI WITH THEM. read more

Had them for 10 days - 6 outages. Every time I had to jump through all their voicemail hoops just to half the time get disconnected. Awful internet service, awful customer service, awful company. The people I dealt with were always trying to be helpful, but there was nothing they could do. read more

I started new service with Astound based on the price that they quoted me before I moved. Once I moved, they increased the price, and said there was nothing they could do about it. Customer service is terrible, not at all helpful, and they keep you on hold for 30 minutes on the phone. Do not waste your time with Astound; find another service. Update: The service rep below told me to message her, which I did, but she did not respond. Clearly, the message was just for the public reading Yelp, and she has no intention of addressing my concerns. read more

Fairly good speed so giving them a 2/5; otherwise it is a 0. GO WITH XFINITY OR ATT AND AVOID THESE MFS!! As noted by others here: my internet goes out for 1-2 days around 1-2 times every 2-3 months it seems, and they provide you no advance notice and the customer service is shit (example, sit on the phone for 20 mins with a robot to press buttons so it will finally send you on somewhere and stop repeating the same shit and then they either (1) never answer, (2) take 40 minutes to answer, or (3) tell you it's a long wait and to click an option to get a call back, only to then tell you the service isn't working when you click it and hang up; so you have to call back and start over). read more

Don't use them. Need to cancel? All you have to do is waste hours out of your week waiting on the phone just to be transferred around and hung up on. If you have the luxury of choice when it comes to your internet provider, don't use Astound. read more

just got astound two days ago while moving into a new place. WORST. DECISION. EVER! Paying for gig speeds, got home and did self hook up and it connected right away As it should. I get everything connected: modem- eero. I run a speed test after everything gets an online status only to see that I'm getting TEN, yes TEN MBPS download and upload. I contacted support and needless to say, they did not help me at all, and couldn't work around my busy work schedule mon-fri(6am-5pm) or weekends! Then they have the audacity to try and offer me a phone plan that is "reliable, works with all 5g towers etc. etc. oh, your internet speeds aren't what you're paying for? Oh a technician can only come over when you're not going to be available. Oh, by the way, do you want to get phone service with astound since we can't even help you with your internet? NO! Don't choose astound unless you don't have a job, can take off of work at any time possible, or just want horrible support. read more

I was originally quoted $45/month including taxes and fees by the rep who helped me sign up, but the monthly rate turned out to be around $66.90. I contacted customer service multiple times, and despite being told I was "misinformed," they said there was nothing they could do. My case was even closed without notice. The issue was only resolved after I emailed the original rep myself, not because of anything customer service did. I'm relieved it's been fixed, but it should not have taken this much effort. If you're signing up, be cautious, get everything in writing, and don't rely solely on customer service for help. I'm giving 3 stars because the rep was able to correct it, but the overall support experience was frustrating and disappointing. read more

Just to follow up: I did finally get a phone repair appointment with Astound, but no repair person showed up. I think it took too long to get another appointment which, in any case, was still three days away. I estimate my phone service hasn't worked consistently for about a month. I checked Astound's BBB rating (choosing the address for "Headquarters") and, as of today, it shows a "C" rating. read more

My internet never works. Worst internet service ever. My internet has went out 6 times this month. The workers are nice but I hate never having working internet. Absolutely ridiculous. read more

After the recent Austin storm the internet has been out. After 3 weeks and 3 service calls Astound keeps sending a technician to "fix" our modem. They promised to send a construction crew to repair the line but once again they show up to "reset" the modem. Since they've been sold to an investment banking group the service has nosedived. UPDATE: After a call with the dispatcher, they promised to keep someone here all day until fixed. Tech said it was a 2 man job but to his credit he worked all day and just completed by himself. In the future I will call dispatch directly and avoid customer service. I don't know how to send a private message from here but I consider the matter resolved. read more

I don't feel like I am even valued as a customer at this company, my speeds are constantly dropping off and I work from home and this is absolutely not acceptable if I am paying for the 1000 Mb package and I'm literally receiving 1 mb at times. I am 99.9% will I will terminate my contract and move to spectrum or google fiber because this has been horrible and I've literally been a customer not even 2 weeks that's the sad part. The app is absolute dog and you can't check ANYthing Besides your billing. If you have any issues whatsoever you have to call customer service numbers which suck. this company seems like a pyramid scheme lowkey and I don't understand how they are a functioning business. read more

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I have never left a review for something like astound in my entire life but I honestly need to get on here and write this simply just to vent about how much I truly despise this company. The service astound offered me was actually pretty decent, and I hardly ever dealt with issues like drop outs or outages. I will however note that their app is not only completely useless, but there are hardly any ways to contact customer service aside from a phone call if you actually want anything to be addressed, and they do not offer any way of seamlessly allowing you to change parts of your equipment out without having to CALL SOMEONE over the phone. I learned the hard way that they have absolutely NO WAY of allowing you to manually change your modem, and if you ever try to do it over the phone you will 100% lose all of your service and have to wait for a technician to arrive and set your internet back up for you. I moved from Kyle to Austin and the new apartment I'm in does not offer Astound, so I cancelled my service with Astound on Sept. 17th, 2025. I was told after cancelling my service that it would still run all the way until the end of the month on Sept. 30th, and I had 30 Days (Oct. 30th) to return the equipment that I had on hand. Obviously I'm busy moving, and I am currently commuting over an hour to/from work, so I'm planning to return the equipment before the date I was told it's due, but I'm definitely taking my time as it's not really a priority for me. On Oct. 23rd, I received a charge of $519 for unreturned equipment. I make $22 an hour and get paid weekly, so this is literally almost my entire paycheck. As soon as I saw this charge, I found the nearest Astound office and spent a nice hour commuting over there to return my equipment, and after returning it I was handed a receipt. The lady at the counter told me that I would be receiving a refund for my charge the following business day. (Oct. 24th) I did not receive my refund the following business day, I didn't even have it after an entire week. So, I decided to give them a call and ask when I would be actually be receiving my refund. They told me it would be 10 business days because the refund has to wait until their equipment is returned to inventory to process. I went ahead and waited those 10 business days, so here I am right now on Nov. 7th, after calling them asking where my refund is because I have still not received it. They now tell me that I have to wait until Nov. 23rd to receive my refund, because it was set to process on the days I would typically be charged for my service. How am I supposed to know if I will actually be given my refund on the 23rd? How is it that a multibillion dollar company can not figure out how to issue a refund for equipment that they probably already sent out to someone else and are profiting off of now? I was given misinformation on 3 different occasions, and yet I'm the only one actually suffering here because I'm not almost 1/4 of my entire income for the month AFTER MOVING EXPENSES, and now I just have to wait and see if the words they told me were actually true or not? I guess I'll be back to update this review on Nov. 23rd to see if I actually receive my money or not, but honestly the customer service is actually terrible and I can't believe how incompetent this company really seems to be. read more

The worst possible company you could ever use for Wifi. They stole money from me for 15 months and admitted to it but would not refund me. Go with any other provider, DO NOT waste your time. read more

If you have any other choice, don't choose Astound as your WiFi provider. My apartment complex leaves us no choice and my internet goes out completely for at least one whole day out of every week. read more

Astound is the WORST! i was forced to change to this company because my complex has a contract with them. I knew something wasn't right when i scheduled them to set everything up and the tech never showed. i finally got someone out here and they told me i could get a 10 discount on my bill if i had my payment through my bank and on autopay. There was an error and now my bank cannot be added. I have called and called and spoken with a supervisor who assured me that it would be fixed and it NEVER has been! I called again and they said a supervisor would call me back. NOTHING! no one ever called. i finally just added my debit card to at least get a 5 dollar discount for autopay but they said it would not be added to this bill only the next one. SCAMERS! i told them today i was tired of all the crap and no help and wanted to change to a lower plan. They told me i needed to apply on a different website. When i checked it, it states i can only get a lower price if i have not had a plan with them for 60 days. These people are the WORST customer service i have every dealt with. They cannot help or do anything. The supervisors are never there and they are inept and have no control, power or are able to fix or change anything. Do yourself a favor, DON NOT EVER GET SERVICE WITH ASTOUND!!! read more

Easily the worst interest you can get. Latency spikes, often reaching 150ms are too common. We pay for the gigabit, but only receive a fraction of it. You call for service and they'll tell you it's your equipment, they'll replace it, and nothing will change. Pretty sure their techs are purely trained to gaslight their customers because they give you the same speech every time about how it's your equipment not their service. You've replaced our equipment God knows how many times, so how can it be that? Not worth any amount of money. They should close themselves down read more

Traaaash!!!! Always a random outage and my service been out all weekend especially during this winter storm. It went out a day before the storm even happened that's when I called it in. They made me set a appointment after the weekend (Monday) for someone to come fix it then call me the day of to reschedule when the weather already had calmed down around 3pm (appointment was scheduled from 1pm- 5pm) the ice was melted already. Seriously they suck! I had no service stuck in the storm all weekend and they still have the audacity to ask me if I want to upgrade to their TV and mobile service SMH! They're straight garbage!!! They could have came before the storm like Saturday morning for example you know work with me since they know the weather was gonna get bad over there having storm updates on their website. You need internet for everything now days and I was stuck in the Stone Age all weekend paying $80 a month for BS service very Disappointing!! read more

How the mighty have fallen. Before the Astound (terrible name for a company by the way) merger/acquisition, Grande was THE BEST Internet provider in the country, hands down. Grande's customer service was 24/7, the prices were good, free service calls, and the billing was never an issue. Ever since Astound and their terrible name took over, is been a downward spiral. First things first, whenever you called Grande, you got a Texas-Based person; Since the takeover, you get someone here, or you get someone up north, or you can get a cheap off shore call center, because they are beginning the process of not employing US folks in the quest to save money and give you worse customer service. Well I don't know about you, but when I call Grande, I want a local, and nothing but. The second thing is they keep screwing up my billing ever since the takeover. I won't get a bill, or it arrives after the due date, or more often than not, is the wrong amount, so then you have to call them.... But today was the final straw. Grande paid, and hired enough people that I had never, in 20 years of having Grande, waited more than 5 or 6 minutes for a Texas based customer service rep. Ever since "Astound" took over, I'm ASTOUNDED at how wait times have crept up little by little. I called today and the automated computer said I have a wait time of 32 minutes?!? No. I'm not going to be treated like a Time Warner or an AT&T customer ever again. I'm done Grande, or should I say, Astound. Your name is awful, and your stingy mature nature is shining through. You lost a customer today. Looks like it's cell based Internet for me. The customer service might not be any better, but they haven't ticked me off like you have. read more

I've moved a lot & have tried just about all the different wifi/internet services that Austin has to offer & Astound (Nicknamed A$$tound in Austin) is the worst one by far. Always cuts off & always outages. And I mean A LOT! The price was the only good thing but it's cheap because it sucks. You are literally paying for what you get. I work from home & I need reliability! For fun I gave them a shot, knowing I was rolling the dice. But I def would never come back. I'm writing this review rn as I get my Google fiber set up & running. I def recommend by the way! This will be my 2nd time using them. The only reason I didn't the first time was because they weren't in my area when I first moved. In my personal opinion, Astound is top tier in the WORST broadband category... followed by Spectrum. The best is Google Fiber & AT&T. read more

Terrible service. Outages twice to three times a month. Won't take responsibility for it. Good luck if you work from home. They started me at $35 and over 5 years of loyalty, raised me all the way to $73, little by little. Great if you gave reliable service, I'll pay the increases. But you don't have reliable service and won't compensate for lost work hours. When I called to disconnect, I love how you immediately had an Account Executive call me the very next day to offer me $34 service. No contract and guaranteed rate for 2 years. In the same call, AE also took responsibility for the 5 years worth of outages and will give credit for 3 months, every other month. Oh and their sneaky T/C gets you. It's like the effing mob! You can't even leave and pro-rate from the day you cancel. They make you wait and pay a whole other month of cycle if you don't call before month end! Price gouge. I hope you get a class action. Too little too late. I have had to drop from work calls because of you. And Everytime you took no responsibility until I left. Good bye!! read more

I have had astound for a month and it's been offline for 2 weeks. They have no idea when it will be fixed

They change your payment every 6 months. I started at about $53 and now I'm at about $103. There is ZERO difference in quality, yet they rack up your bill. I have no choice but to have this company due to my apartment building. read more

Internet keeps dropping. Called to report issue. Tech came out and assessed the situation and apparently other customers on the same street are having the same issue. He escalated issue to the network team. Called the next business day and customer rep did not have a clue of what was going on. Suggested placing another service call to have a technician out again. It is absurb that we have to go through the same rodeo again when this issue is impacting multiple users. read more

Horrible company, outages are very often and last very long. There's no real ETA or reason for the outages. Prices are too high and the app sucks! read more

I'd leave half a star to 0 stars if i could.. When they have outages, it last for days on end and when u contact customer service, its only an automated system that wont allow u to speak to a live human because "unable to connect to a service representative until service is restored". Worst internet provider I've ever experienced. read more

would rate lower if i could. The internet service is terrible, It goes out all of the time and when it does work it randomly goes from 300 megabytes to 2 kilobytes for a minute or 2 through out the day. when i called to talk to someone they didn't really help, all they told me is that they didn't see anything like this on their end when they looked up my service info. read more

Service drops out for up to 24 hours at a time for our whole apartment complex. When it works, it's very slow. Finally dropped them today after years of declining quality, and won't be looking back. read more

The absolute worst cable service. I wind up missing most of my programs and this company don't even give you credit for not having cable service. Just got my bill and it seems to have an increase in taxes and service charges, absolutely ridiculous. read more