Piedmont Broadband has been a LIFESAVER! I was paying so much more for Spectrum and it was…read moreconstantly slowing down. I work from home, so it's imperative that I have super fast and reliable internet. This fiber optic internet is AWESOME! Thank you so much Russell!

I've been a client of Piedmont Broadband for a few years, only because there is no other ISP other…read morethan satellite that can reach me. Early on, their service was terrible, very intermittent and went down a lot. After the biz changed hands about 18mnths ago, service got better, with less latency. Than they did some kind of upgrade to increase download speeds several weeks ago. Now have a bit higher download speeds at about 35GB but has a lot of latency now. SO my end user experience is now very poor, Latency is too high most times now to do any kind of internet gaming (which I was able to do before the upgrade) , video streaming is now flaky, video conferencing is now poor, and using a cell across it now drops packets all the time (when it didn't before). Now they tell me that its normal to have 30ms to 50ms pings. (which was usually around 20-30ms before upgrades) I installed a new wifi 6 mesh system as a possible resolution which made no difference. I see latency of 50 to 160ms now. I made 4 complaints about this since with no resolution!! Avoid this ISP is you can find other service in your area.

I've been tired of dealing with DSL for a while. So I decided to go with excede as I have had…read moredirect tv for years. The installation was a bit complicated, but Kurt's guys, Joe and Adam, stuck with it and didn't take the easy way out. The next day, a Sunday, a piece on the dish went bad. Excede told me I would have to wait three days for a tech to come out to make the repairs. This is after more than 50 minutes on the phone. I called Kurt, and he drove in from his home - 90 plus minutes each way - to hook me back up to the Internet. I am very grateful for his diligence and integrity in backing up his product. Cheers, Kurt!! You have resorted my faith! Thanks!

I've had exede for almost 2 year and although their service can be lacking, Kurt and his team are…read morepeople I can count on for great, honest and reliable assistance. He answers the phone and is available, and Always, Always seems to have the answers I need, When I need them. He is devoted to his customers and loyal, and his install team does a fast, efficient job too. My first dish with them, Joe installed in ice and know and I know his hands were freezing too! They are good, hard working and really get the job done right! In this business, they truly excel and do care about their customers, something other companies should do, but many don't give us the time of day. It is a relief to be able to call someone who knows and is willing to go that extra distance. They are really an asset and very valuable team and you're lucky to get their service and install!

#1 in customer service, small, local homegrown company who's only goal is your happiness.read more

My internet connection went down. One call to DC Access and Katy (extremely competent…read morereceptionist) got me sorted in no time. She had Tony & Darnell at my apartment pronto. Between them they solved the problem (a worn out, ancient, cable, along with a vintage router). Both replaced quickly. DC Access a God send to our community - very affordable and no waiting days for an in-home visit, then staying put at home for half a day waiting for someone to turn up. Thank you DC Access. Maggie Hall, Capitol Hill.

In an era of rising prices, shrinking service, and companies replacing people with automation, DC…read moreAccess is a total unicorn. They're local and deeply committed to exceptional customer care. I've paid the same low price for almost a decade, and on the rare occasions I've called for tech support, a helpful human answered immediately and resolved my issue. One experience in particular prompted this review: my router went out on a Saturday night, and I fully expected to wait until Monday for help. Instead, I reached someone around midnight who helped troubleshoot the issue. Even more remarkable, a skilled and kind technician--who had originally installed my internet years earlier--came first thing Sunday morning to replace the router. This level of service is truly unheard of. DC Access sets the standard for excellence!

VABB came to the house in the mountains, did 30+ minutes of measurements, and determined that they…read morecould not provide me service. They were good to work with but just could not help me.

Coming from the city to a rural area I wasn't sure what to expect with fixed point wireless…read moreinternet. The service that VABB provides highly depends on your location relative to towers and line of sight, etc. For my house I tend to get okay speeds and decent latency. Where VABB shines is the customer support and help you can get from the sales side. Every interaction with them has been great. They are great at communicating and have never misled me in anyway. Their people show up on time. They have been willing to go the extra mile to make sure that my gear is working as well as possible. I just wish they had a fiber network to my house. Overall they seem like people that really care about providing the best service they can.

I would prefer no stars. I am bedbound because of physical issues, so I do use my computer a lot…read morefor games, e-mail and writing, Unfortunately, it can easily take 20 minutes to play a 10-minute game! I have been to the Comcast support forum more times than I care to count; the issue is the well-known "long-running script." Comcast's response is to blame it on Internet Explorer. In the legal world this is known as the SODDI defense-- Some Other Dude Done It. During the winter my problems were blamed on frozen electricity in my home. Please don't laugh. That's what the technician told me. (I really do hate being treated like a chick.) He fixed that issue by replacing my set-top box with an older, brain-dead one incapable of looking any farther forward than 12 hours on the schedule-- unless it's to tell me that everything is To Be Announced.... How Very Helpful indeed. In any case, because my connection to the net is slower than I am, I get progressively dumber on Lumosity, and appear to be completely unable to complete a simple crossword puzzle in the allotted time, thereby demonstrating to the entire world that I have the verbal ability and vocabulary of an avocado. My only recourse is to Yelp, and to periodically write Nastygrams to some functionary with the incredible title of Vice President for Happy Customers, or some such nonsense. I do know his correct title, because I have it in my Comcrash file, which also includes the protocol for making formal complaint to the appropriate Federal agency. We don't pay for what we don't get, and we would pay even less if we could get away with it. I am seriously considering using rolled pennies once a year or so to pay what we are currently grudgingly coughing up.

Came and diagnosed problem and h e a replacement on the way. Technician was professional,…read more proficient and respectful. I wholeheartedly recommend this company.

Most professional technicians that I have ever worked with. 100% exceeded my expectations.read more

They easily rank first as the worst provider I've had in the 30 or so years of Internet. My…read moreapartment building of 50+ units uses NetBlazr. We've had a building-wide outage since Thursday morning. It is now Tuesday morning (that is, five days later). They only now sent a technician, despite hundreds of calls from residents and property management. A noxious combination of apathy and incompetence.

NetBlazr is dead and was bought by Gigstreem in 2022 and are actively running it into the ground…read more Since their purchase my internet speed plummeted and I would regularly have the internet drop out. About a month ago my internet stopped working and stayed that way for a week straight. I called daily and was given the run around that it is a "server issue and will be fixed soon" but they could never tell me exactly when. I eventually talked to a technician who told me Gigstreem is actively trying to lose NetBlazr customers who were grandfathered into a lower price. That and they just don't care enough to pay for technicians to fix issues so anything that goes wrong takes weeks to fix. After a week of back and forth and no internet I cancelled my service and signed up with another company. The outage started at the start of July and I had paid for a full month of internet so I demanded a refund as the internet didn't work at all after I paid. I was told I would receive one but it never came. I called a dozen times over three weeks and was told "the finance team is working on it". Eventually I gave up and had to file a charge back with my credit card company. This internet provider is completely broken and doesn't care about you in any way. I hate to say it but even comcast is better and I really hate them. Stay far far away from this company.

customer service is so trash. Been on hold 30 minutes and counting. close to going nuts.read more

We are commercial customers. Have experienced a number of outages where the reps from Ting ( after…read morea usual 2 hour wait) cheerfully tell us that nothing is wrong. They refuse to send out techs, they are liars with regard to the actual bandwidth that we receive. Been a commercial client with them for over 8 years and will replace them as soon as possible. Degradation in reliability, customer service and ethics = death spiral. Then. they lie about it. Run away....we are Jon Fink, JVI

Excellent customer service!!! I have had Metronets internet for many years. It remains an…read moreaffordable, practical internet service, especially for users like me who are not heavy gamers/streamers. Best part is Metronets has excellent customer service. When my MacBook Safari & firefox speeds started slowing down, they came to my condo to try to figure out the problem. They loaned me a Netgear router when that router increased the wifi speeds considerably over my old apple extreme and my new airport express. I am so happy Metronets was able to fix the vexing problem, because I really did not want to hassle with uneven customer service or pay the way high prices for Comcast or Verizon (like pulling teeth with those service providers to even figure out what your real bill will be once they add on fees and charges that up your price my many $$$.) If you want an affordable internet provider with great customer service, contact Metronets (N. VA area).