My family and I have been Spectrum customers for YEARS. After leaving AT&T many moons ago, we thought Spectrum would be a GREATER fit for us - not only in terms of price but also, in terms of customer service, ACTUAL service and just all the little things you expect with a provider of this caliber. And for years, they were. They would work with us when our router went bad / out. They would send out technicians fairly quickly to address any modem or whatever issues would arise with our service. The customer service was usually quite good with the exception of some technicians being a bit standoff-ish from time to time. But alas, we give grace to service providers as their job can get difficult dealing with customers of all strokes day to day. Nonetheless, we were happy MOST of the time with our experiences with this provider.
Sadly, all this shifted within the last 6 to 7 years or so. With the onset of 5G and now the rise of AI and data centers, it SEEMS, the quality of service has gone down explicitly. Now, I am no technician and can't say how the overall electrical grid is being affected by everything and the sheer loads of all things that require power. However, the coincidence between all mentioned (i.e. introduction of new 5G towers and now introduction of data centers scattered about central Florida) SEEMS UNCANNY. Maybe it's my tin foil hat buzzing but it's hard to disregard that within the last 6 or so years, our service with Spectrum as a whole went from good to pure TERRIBLE. And in the last year alone, our service is damn near not useable because our internet goes EVERY SINGLE DAY for HOURS at a time or even the entire day! It has gotten to the point, where a tech has come out to replace our equipment almost MONTHLY. It is very infuriating.
Working remotely from home has become IMPOSSIBLE most days which is resulting in us not being able to work remotely unless we use our personal cellular hotspots. On top of that, when they do send a tech to replace our equipment, it gets replaced with refurbished equipment and NOT new equipment. There was one instance, a tech replaced our prior equipment with equipment that was FILTHY. We were flabbergasted that no issue was taken when the point was raised that the equipment replacement was DIRTY! I just don't even understand WHAT IS HAPPENING at Spectrum! This is simply NOT ACCEPTABLE and as I type this, our service is STILL OUT and has been out since LAST NIGHT!
I hate to say this, but Spectrum will eventually force our hands. We will eventually need to look for a different provider because what is the purpose of paying for Internet service we cannot use!?!
NOTE: I'll be posting this review for all the Spectrum offices as I don't know which office they send their techs from and where they route us to since we get called from a different number each time when our internet goes out and we have to reach out to their office(s). read more