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    DISH

    DISH

    (5 reviews)

    So Bad You'll Wonder Why It's Legal…read more This is a long review, but read it all to learn just how bad Dish Network is. The first thing you need to know about Dish Network is that the service they'll really give you is not the service they'll tell you about. Oh, technically it is, but the truth is buried in microscopic print deep in their contract, and they won't tell you the facts up front. Number one, there's a usage cap. In most of the areas where you really need satellite TV and internet, the cap is 20 GB per month - in theory. But the real cap is only half of that: 10 GB/month. This is because the other half is available only between the hours of 2AM and 8AM. Chances are you won't be online a lot at those times, so in the real world you're getting only half as much bandwidth as they'll claim you're getting. But it gets better. A single person with normal internet habits (email, web, social media, the occasional Youtube video) will use about 100MB per day. Someone who uses the internet for business will go through 200 to 300MB per day. At that rate you'll go through that 10GB pretty quickly. A family of four will be lucky to make it through the month. Forget about streaming video services, such as Netflix, Amazon, or Hulu. A single hour of streaming HD video will use up 2 or 3 GB of bandwidth easily. So for most practical purposes you can't use those services at all through Dish Network. Unless you watch streaming video after 2AM you won't have any bandwidth left. You can't use internet phone services such as Skype through Dish, nor can you play online games. The audio quality is terrible and the lag makes online gaming impossible. So right out of the box Dish Network is pretty much useless for most of the things that people use the Internet for these days. If you do anything more than email and a little bit of web surfing you'll constantly be running up against your half-size usage cap. But it's their customer service that takes Dish Network from "Mediocre" straight through "Awful" and into "There Oughta Be a Law." I started using Dish about 3 months ago. I ran into all of the problems I outlined above, and then today my Internet went out. I called Dish tech support, and the tech told me that my wireless router (the router Dish provided) was dead and that it needed to be replaced. After just 3 months. Then he told me that he couldn't help me with that. If I wanted a new router then I would need to go to a store and buy one myself. That's right: Dish Network refuses to service or replace the hardware that they provide. The excuse for this incredible lack of support is that they provide the router "as a courtesy". It is "free of charge" - though the service they do charge for (and a pretty penny they charge) can't be used without the "free" router. And you can bet that the cost of that equipment is covered by their fees one way or another. They aren't taking a loss on it. So, bottom line: Dish Network really gives you only half as much bandwidth as they claim they do. Their Internet service is useless for much of what an ordinary person does with the net. And if your wireless service goes out you must repair or replace it at your own expense. And they will tell you that all of this is a "courtesy." I will be ending my service with these thieves just as soon as I possibly can.

    Very disappointed with this company. Only service available where we live. Couldn't come to a…read moreresolution with HBO and now Fox, still paying the same amount and when you call customer service they were willing to cancel our service if we aren't happy, no apology, nothing. Really sad

    TDS

    TDS

    (72 reviews)

    We had TDS internet for 7 years and have had consistent drop outs and slow speed in Johnstown CO…read more(despite having Gig service). We have also experienced billing SNAFUs on several occasions. Once Xfinity became available, I decided to cancel my account in early May 2026. I called and spent 2 hours on the phone and finally got a rep who told me they would send a return shipping box for the modem. That never came. I called again and was told they would ship out another return box - and it never came. Meanwhile, TDS charged me a $179 fee for equipment not returned. I found the local TDS office and delivered the modem in person. The employee said that my account had been adjusted to note the return. Today I received a bill!!! TDS is a crappy company that oversells service while shortchanging servers and infrastructure, and has the most customer unfriendly and convoluted business practices I have encountered. AND their website has dead links.

    Avoid TDS at all costs. EVERYONE at TDS is incompetent, from the Techs who install to the customer…read moreservice department, billing department, and even supervisors. Every employee has a far different answer from the previous one and then each employee simply states, "I don't know why the other employee would say that!" But then further messes up your account. If you want to avoid a headache, avoid TDS. Not one employee here knows what they are doing. -and all I had was internet, which apparently is too much for them to handle.

    DISH - televisionserviceproviders - Updated August 2026

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