I'm in Port Orchard WA and my system went down. I was able to be squeezed in early the next day and…read moretheir tech Jeff saved the day. He was professional and quick, explaining the details of what he needed to do to fix the problem. Thanks Jeff for the great job! I hope you get a raise! -Jun

Switching to Astound was a huge mistake…read more The first installation technician didn't set up the service correctly, which left me without internet. I had to wait another week for a second technician to come out. Unfortunately, they also failed to complete the installation properly, and I was left without internet again. The next day, I called customer service and was assured that someone would come out that same day to fix the issue. I waited at home all day, but no one ever called or showed up. For the few short hours that the internet worked, speeds weren't even close to what was advertised. Overall, really bad experience and I'd advise against signing up.

I signed up for Xfinity thru them, and when my contracted ended I called them again. Vick was the…read moreone that answer this time, and I'm so grateful that he did. He went above and beyond, giving me advice on ways to save money on internet service, like buying my own modem and router for cheep (I've been told the modem cost over $100 dollars, so its better to just rent it out from internet provider). Great service!!!

I signed up for Comcast service last night over the phone and they told me I could stop by any…read morestore to pick up my equipment. I thought this location was the closest and stopped by only to find out that "Authorized Dealers" can only give you equipment if you sign up directly with them. This stop was a conplete waste of my time.

I'm surprised by other negative reviews. Direct TV has been wonderful for me. Hardly ever an…read moreissue with clear TV, I've had them for over 9 years now and love them. The only trouble I've had was once when century link talked me into bundling through them and then they didn't pay direct tv. Direct TV was so nice about it that they arranged a 3 way call with clink and severed the bundle for me--GREAT customer service. I recently upgraded and am paying slightly less now, and have the wonderful benefit of whole-home DVR, which rocks. They are in beta with on demand as well--hopefully the number of shows will increase there, but I am a happy customer. I only do tv through them--as others mention, the bundling is handled through other companies and as I totally hate century link, I'm not about to hand my internet back to them.

DIRECTV is the absolute worst cable provider in the history of TV. When you call them for help they…read moredisconnect you unless you are calling about paying them. This happened to me 5 times yesterday when my system was seizing up I.e. black picture + intermittent sound. I have replaced their internet module 3 times; each time the task to reboot the system to working took 5 hours; you have to sign in in different ways for each premium channel you are paying for; it takes different passwords and different identity confirmations to make it work properly. In our area DIRECTV has a monopoly on prime, Netflix, YouTube, Disney, you name it; and their website does not work I.e. I cannot sign in without being rejected or terminated. Perhaps some day ( by the turn of the century) DIRECTV will get it that it is actually easier to provide reliable content signal and accessible customer support. Perhaps some smart law firm will take them to task to change their unprofessional conduct; until then expect lots of problems if you have to use them to receive the content you desire in CALIF.

Typical F- Service…read more Ugh. Exactly why I hate this company...Here just to turn in my equipment and DC the service (which cannot be done online) Upon arrival theres a line out the door. You can make an appointment online however there is no distinction in the line so you are in the same queue as everyone else. Start to finish waited over an hour. Terrible.

terrible customer service. you try to call with issues and all automated. couple days out of week…read moreconnection issues for more than an hour. high bill for good speed terrible contuinit.

On Nov 6, 2025, Astound's billing department advised me to purchase my own modem because their…read morerental equipment is ~8 years old and not compatible with modern Wi-Fi standards. Following Astound's own "Bring Your Own Modem" guidance, I purchased a Motorola MB8611. On Nov 19, 2025, I attempted to activate the MB8611. During calls at 8:47 AM and 9:48 AM, Astound's technicians failed to provision the modem. When I asked to revert to my rental modem, they initially failed to restore that as well. Although service eventually returned, it continued to drop intermittently for the next 24 hours (documented by a 7:45 PM call). On Nov 26, 2025, I purchased a second approved modem (Arris S34). During calls at 12:05 PM, 12:09 PM, and 12:21 PM, Astound again failed to activate it. Instead of addressing the outage, representatives insisted I first create a new online account and set security questions--even though I had no internet access at the time. After finally completing the account setup, I made additional calls at 1:10 PM and 1:18 PM, spending over two hours on the phone. I requested a technician for an immediate restoration of service with the rental modem. Astound accomplished neither. Representatives showed blatant lack technical knowledge (e.g., unfamiliar with basic networking terms like SNR or DHCP), making it impossible to perform proper diagnostics. When I asked to escalate to a supervisor, the request was refused. Astound scheduled the earliest technician visit for Dec 5--ten days later. I emphasized that I work from home and need stable connectivity, and I offered to pay extra for an earlier appointment. Astound refused. UPDATE: after writing complaints to FCC and BBB, I was contacted by a member of Astound "executive resolution team", who turned to be a capable technician. He told me that Astound tech support team made a typo while entering MAC address of my modem (5 times in a row?). Within 10 minutes my service was restored. Overall, it took only 2 weeks, about a dozen calls to Astound support, 2 official complaints, and a week without Internet service to do a basic equipment upgrade.

GARBAGE SERVICE, USELESS SUPPORT, OVERPRICED RATES. I never thought I'd hate someone more than…read moreComcast. I pay for 50 Mbps upload and get barely 9 or 10, as well as constant latency, packetloss, and random outages (brand new modem + router on my end). Any kind of streaming or online gaming varies from "tolerable" to "impossible." I've attached an image of my speed test as proof that I am in fact experiencing up to a half-second of connection delay. Their support was INFURIATINGLY bad. They sent technicians twice, and one of the times they BROKE the neighborhoods connection before leaving, so it was out all day until I called again to tell them what happened. They said they'd send another and did not, and when I asked about that, they started asking me how to fix the problem (as if that's my job). They reset my modem without telling me, while I was using the internet to talk to their tech support, then when I lost connection and couldn't respond they closed the conversation and made me start over. They've scheduled an appointment and then simply not shown up, leaving me to contact them again and try to set up another (and they make me wait another week or more for the next appointment opening). They say they have no way of reviewing past tech support so I had to explain this problem more than a dozen times (and am STILL going through this issue, and having to re-explain the entire thing every single time). They have called me three times at 6 AM just to tell me that an appointment scheduled two weeks in the future was canceled, then to tell me it was back on. I try to be as polite as possible with others, but if I could swear in google reviews I would be doing so right now. I don't think I have ever had such disrespectfully bad service in my life. On top of all that, our price has slowly climbed to over 200% what it started at (it "was" $70 per month, now it's $150 for this absolutely trash tier service and support). God help you if you rely on this company for anything, they are a landfill of incompetence. Edit: After seeing my review they asked me to email them with more information, and after I did they promised to "Reach out as soon as possible." It's been 9 days and I have not heard from them, nor have I seen any improvement. Everything any Astound representative has ever told me, so far, has been a flat out falsehood. This company is AWFUL.

My internet has been out for 11 days. Every day the new service restoration is updated to a random…read morehour the next day, or 2 days away. There is zero response to questions that can only be asked thru Ai chat, so only machine response. I have no expectations of service because it seems only 2 of us are out. The outage is so small it seems engineered to make us quit, maybe we have a forever account? There is no phone menu option for customer service, only purchase of new or upgraded service. Once you log in you get punted to the chatbot.

Just read through the reviews for this company. Not one good review. I've never seen that with any…read moreother company. I wonder if Centurylink aka Lumen Technologies even cares about providing certain types of old school service, like landline connections anymore. According to The Motley Fool, the corporation's struggling to turn a profit, which would explain a lot. So, here my Centurylink aka Lumen Technologies story ends. We cancelled our landline service yesterday after 24 years, so long ago the company was then called Qwest. That meant our home phone number, which was primary contact number for all business, medical and other accounts had to be deleted from all those records. And I tell you, with some accounts that was not easy. So it's 5G wireless service only for us from now on. But I want to re-emphasize how truly poor Centurylink's service continues to be. Our landline was mostly down for about two weeks which is why we finally cancelled service. BUT, both strangely and telling, during the sporadic times we got a dial tone and could both call out and receive calls, every single incoming call was from auto dialers using spoofed numbers. Think about that. The service is down and on the limited days it comes back up, the only phone calls are from scammer auto dialers. No friends or family. No prospective customers for our home-based business. No physicians offices. Just the scammers. So along with unreliable service that more than provided justification for cutting the cord, so to speak. Since we paid our final bill, Centurylink still owes us money for the downed service time. Once again I'd filed a complaint with the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission, which is just one of thousands. But they'll ensure we get a full refund for lost service, but it could take a few months.

If I could give CL a ZERO I would. Worst customer service ever and no way to contact the CEO by…read moreemail. Call centers are in India and the Philippines where they read from a script and just reschedule over and over. I'm on my 8th reschedule and have no faith they will actually come to repair the line. I have filed a complaint with the Utilities Commission and suggest you do likewise so the state will realize what a scam Century Link really is. CL says you must be home from 8am-5pm for the repair or they'll charge you $99, but they don't compensate for standing you up! Avoid Century Link at all costs.

CL has isolated itself from its customers by making it extremely difficult to reach a real person…read more There is a great lack in communication about when or if someone will show up for service and if the work doesn't get completed, assurances are made that are not fulfilled.

Stopped by the Ballard Xfinity store for technical support on a mobile phone issue. Met with Emily,…read morewho diagnosed the problem and fixed the problem. Emily was friendly and chatted while working the problem. A very positive experience. Thanks!

This is the worst internet I have ever had exced wouldn't even load my table and charged me 80 a…read moremonth I would feel them that It won't download anything and the kept trying to sale me more data and now that I'm out of contract with them I shut it off and the want to charge me $150 to come to my apartment to take the satillte off my roof there is no way for anyone of the renters that can get up on a two story apartment building the lady that took the call was rude to my wife talking to her like she was a kid so I wouldn't go with them go with wave