I didn't call the 1-800 number…read more I called B&T because we were moving, and I needed my Dish service relocated to our place 15 minutes outside of Redding, and I adhere to the whole "use the local guys" ethos. I was also shopping for internet service--I'd experienced the dismal performance of Frontier DSL and had struck out on fixed-wireless radio internet because I can't get a line-of-sight signal without putting up a 200-ft tower--so I asked B&T about satellite. I was told: "It works, but it won't stream video as fast as you're used to with cable. As long as you're okay with that, it's fine." Bzzzzzztttt. Wrong. The problem with satellite internet is not with streaming video--once your buffer is built and it's streaming away, you don't notice any difference, any more than you notice it when you're watching satellite TV. The problem with satellite internet is this: You click, and then you wait......forever. Often until the mofo times out on you, often repeatedly. If you're using internet for work/research, like I do, you spend most of your time waiting forever to reach the server, and for the server to respond back. It's the latency. It's fucking useless. How fucking useless? We have satellite internet that we're paying for, and we don't use it. With two or three bars out here, our goddamned Verizon cell phones are 10x faster and 100x more reliable, and we use them as internet hotspots, every day, all day. We're paying almost $100 per month for Hughesnet.con (the satellite provider that Dish uses), and we've set all of our devices to forget that modem so that the devices don't default to it. And it's a two-year contract--because any sane person would drop Hughesnet.con after a month once they got a taste of it, unless you happen to live in Bumfuck Nowheretistan and there is absolutely no alternative. Before we gave up on the satellite internet completely, it stopped working altogether for a couple of weeks. I called B&T twice over those two weeks and left messages (because, you know, don't call the 1-800 number). No return call. On the third try the guy who picked up (Doug? I don't know) told me that I had to call Dish's 1-800 number to get help. The guys from Dish came out the third week and said that my internet dish had been improperly installed by B&T with only 2 of the 4 bolts set on one side--like a hinge--and was tilting forward. The 1-800 Dish guy fixed the dish and replaced the system with the one that hits their newest generation satellite--Jupiter 2--and said it would be faster but would still suck, because satellite internet sucks, because of the latency issue. Sorry. He's absolutely right. The Jupiter 2 download speed is hella faster, and so what? That's not the problem. The problem is waiting......waiting.......waiting......for the downloading to start. And often it never does start, so then you get to try again.......and again.......and again. Other people seem to be satisfied with B&T, so I'll concede that my experience may be an outlier, related only to the shit satellite internet service that B&T offers through Dish. But in my defense, I wouldn't be writing this negative review: 1. If B&T had been straight with me about how horrible the Hughesnet.con service is in the first place (like the Dish guys were) 2. If B&T hadn't dodged me when I left voicemails about my satellite internet going to shit just because they don't want to deal with it and (as it turns out) it's not really their problem 3. If B&T hadn't done a crap job of installing the dish so that we lost three weeks of the shit service that I paid for (the three weeks relating to #2) 4. If B&T had gone to bat for me with Dish and helped me get out of my contract because the service isn't performing as represented, instead of washing their hands Here's what might happen next: Doug will attach a comment asking me to get ahold of him. I'm probably going to ignore that, because I'm going to assume that his interest isn't that he suddenly wants to help me. If he wanted to help me, that would have happened already, and I wouldn't be writing this review.* Why two stars instead of one? It's in recognition that B&T has a lot of 5-star reviews and must be doing something right. As for me: Meh, I've experienced better.

Very knowledgeable, informative and professional. Able to answer questions we didn't know we had,…read moreshowed us features that we never accessed. Called customer service for us... Doug really went above and beyond. Referred him to our parents to get their dish hopper upgraded and for the tutorial, really. Will definitely use him for all of our future needs!!

I just wish there was a Spectrum service center closer to me in Red Bluff. But since I drive up…read morehere to Redding so often, I guess it's no biggie. As for the service and internet connection, I couldn't be happier. Heck in the last 2 years, my internet speed has gone up from uploads at 375 Mbps to almost 500 Mbps! I didn't have to do a thing, they just raised the speed for the same price! The upload speed went up super fast too, form just 12 Mbps to a whopping 420 Mbps, almost the same speed as downloading. This is important to me, cause I upload a lot of work vids and pics back to the main office, so they upload super quick. One thing I don't like is the price over the years seems to keep going up, but I'm lucky work pays for my connection, but still. I tried to go into the store and see if I could get one of those deals where it's like half the cost, but they said it's just for new customers only, so there's that! The connection is pretty reliable most the time, sure on occasion it might go out, but that's cause the electricity went out on the area for whatever reason. I'm happy with Spectrum. I just do the internet and have a home phone connection, but no TV service, there's plenty to watch on Prime over the internet!

Terrible service Terrible customer service…read more Agent was eating while talking to me. Told me to take my business somewhere else!!!

Keith at T-Com is Super Amazing! I had moved into a home where the previous owner took everything…read moreand didn't label the multi-room speaker lines. Everything was a mess and not working. Keith went to work and got me a new receiver, a switch and hooked it all up. He labeled all the different speaker lines and organized all. Now I can play the sound in multiple different rooms and he even chased down my wires and got my pool speakers working! He labeled all for me, walked me through everything and had me do a test run so I won't have any issues. I am Sooooo thankful for the Fantastic job he did! Keith will be getting all my business in the future when I do some upgrades to my system. He really knows his stuff and he is very personable. His prices are very reasonable too.

Keith can hook you up with whatever level of security system works for you. Extremely professional…read moreinstallation. I have cameras that cover every area of my property, and he helped my rural internet work so much better. If you are looking for a security system, there is no need to look any further than Keith with T-Com.

Directv has terrible customer service!!!! Can't hardly understand the agent and I can hear 5-10…read morepeople talking in the back ground. I asked to be connected to an agent in the US and the agent said he tried to connect me twice but couldn't. Looks like I'm going to have to change to back to Dish. Lousy service for $170.71 a month.

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I cannot understand how this place is still around. When I signed up they told me I could change…read moreservice at any time without consequences. This is a complete lie. So apparently when you want to cancel DVR service they make you get a new box, this box that I was forced to change to comes with a brand new 2-year contract. Never was I told that downgrading service would mean a new contract. On top of that I have called in several times to get it sorted out and the "customer service" representatives told me everything is fine and I can just finish out the first contract due to being misinformed, however when I called back to cancel they told me they never said that and by signing for the box I actually consented to the new contract and they will do nothing. I feel like there should be laws to protect consumers from this misleading way of doing business.

Worst customer service ever received in my life. Moved into apartment and couldn't get a strong…read moreenough signal and had to reset system every few hours. Decided to cancel and got charged a couple hundred dollars because we couldn't use their service. Had direct tv before and encountered same situation several years ago and they were great no fees! Will never be using them again after we move next time

They are awesome, never had a bad experience with them, very helpful and knowledgeableread more

Took my older aunt into the Redding store as we could not figure out how to get her new phone to…read moreconnect to everything. Sean Abbott was absolutely amazing. He was very patient with her and knew just what to do to get things resolved. He helped show her how to access and do the simple things on a modern phone that most children are familiar with, but that older people sometimes have trouble with. Just an outstanding experience.