Horrible internet. Always down for days at a time which is unacceptable for an ISP. No service if you try to call when down they don't pick up. Horrible value and honestly the worst internet I've ever used. Never works and when it does it's slow as hell. This company should not be in business and absolutely sucks read more

Been using it at my apartment for a few years, generally just bad. When it works it works fine, even for online gaming as long as you aren't using a monster PC rig. But when it isn't working, it just doesn't work full stop. Not buffering, not slow loading, just straight up no internet and no WiFi. It'll say you're connected, but won't give you any actual internet. Customer service isn't bad, and the people on the line are very helpful, but they're closed on weekends and trying to contact them in the first place is a pain. And recently, an entirely new problem has popped up: They've restricted and outright blocked access to certain websites, seemingly based on how often they are used. This makes getting work done remotely or at home a massive headache, and is just plain stupid and rude. read more

I've been having issues with my service since September 2023. It'll come in waves, sometimes it'll work, but about 70% of the time it's too slow to even use my phone to google something let alone stream or use the internet for anything. I've tried emailing and at first the customer service responded saying they would look into it to it, but I haven't had a response since December. I've emailed multiple times and called and left voicemails at the customer service number and no one has called me back. It's not worth the money and their customer service is non existent. Try literally any other service. read more

Very inconsistent coverage, sometimes out for days at a time. Not fast at all. Atrocious customer service. If you ever some how find yourself in a complex that states they have "free wifi" and instaconnect is the provider. save yourself the headache and just get an actual service provider. read more

I am stuck with this ISP because the complex I'm renting from offers no other service. I am resetting my Alexa just about every other day because she keeps losing wifi connections. I also work remotely and keep losing internet. I can't keep doing this. I pay $60 a month for internet service that is spotty at best, having to reset all of my devices because they have some weird requirement that you have to register all your mac codes with them, and they have to be refreshed by logging into their website once a week. I have emailed and called them - I get sent to voicemail and no reply to my emails. Meanwhile my living is at stake because I can't log in to my work computer again. So I end up using my wifi hotspot/data on my phone and pay extra for that. They are awful and the minute Xfinity offers service here, I'm out. At least answer your phone and/or your emails. At least do that. read more

wifi constantly goes down, takes over a day for connection to come back. outages aren't uncommon.

This is the most garbage service I have ever received in my life, the internet constantly stops working, horrible customer service. They kept having problems billing me and then would let me know months later that I hadn't been getting billed. read more

Without question the most awful internet service provider I've ever used. Absolutely terrible, and if you check their wiki page you'll find that they've been this miserable for a decade or more. Same company lines being peddled by their employees, same problems, even a decade later. Do not recommend. read more

I've written this poem to describe my instaconnect experience thus far (I've had them since September): Instaconnect fail Your 'instaconnect' leaves me in utter despair, makes me want to pull out all of my hair, in my most needy hour, You leave me feeling very sour. At last there might be hope! As I scan my network scope. I see Wifi bars, yet they're full of soap. I had connectivity once, whence it came, it surely left. I must have been dreaming. read more

If you ever some how find yourself in a complex that states they have "free wifi" and instaconnect is the provider. save yourself the headache and just get an actual service provider. instaconnect is the most unreliable and unprofessional provider i have ever had the misfortune of dealing with. its even crazier that they have had this negative reputation for so long and they have done nothing to fix. dont be sorry, be better. read more

Pretty much they work great when it works (besides for online gaming, no way it works) and download speeds are okay. Streaming usually has no issues. The kicker: it will randomly decide to not work. It isn't that it is spotty or that a streaming video buffers or has bad quality, even though that happens from time to time. I mean that it will just disappear from my wireless networks for days at a time. Or (the annoying part) is that it'll connect, but when I go to sign in it will tell me that something went wrong and I should try again. But it doesn't get resolved until you call the help line. It would be a one star if the customer service was bad, but it isn't as bad as most. I don't think the people picking up the phones are dealing with the internet and they are friendly. Only problem for that is that they are only open Monday thru Friday. So if your internet doesn't work at 11pm on Friday, you don't get it fixed until Monday morning. Which is frustrating. Really frustrating. read more

Instaconnect - Get used to this sight.. - Internet Service Providers Near Me

Instaconnect is complete garbage. I live at an apartment complex that uses it as an excuse for free Wi-Fi but it randomly cuts out-especially on weekends when the office is closed. Streaming is usually ok, sometimes the buffering makes watching TV impossible, and when playing video games it will randomly cut out causing me to loose the match. I don't even bother trying to connect my phone to the Wi-Fi because it's so slow and won't load shit. Every time I turn on my laptop I know I'm in for a 10-30 minute battle with the Wi-Fi to try to get online. If your apartment uses instaconnect as complementary internet expect to have to pay for an actual provider. It's completely unacceptable for a company to last for so long with so many bad reviews and a track record of bad service. read more

This provider is TRASH! It makes you re-login every 2 weeks or so as if that's some type of security feature. The real security feature is that the service is worthless and if you did have bad intentions your not going anywhere with them! Not with your sanity anyway! -manager of an un-named complex read more

Instaconnect - Junk - Internet Service Providers Near Me

I really wanted to give Instaconnect a chance. It worked fine for several months to the point that my roommate and I even decided to cancel Comcast. However, it seems that Istaconnect made dramatic changes to the way their network handles users trying to connect. These past few weeks have been some of the most frustrating with the inconsistency of the Instaconnect network. It has been detrimental to my productivity and enjoyment at home. The most frustrating thing is that the network is not down, but that I am not receiving internet due to their own system issues. While the customer service is nice, it is absurd that it is only available on weekdays when most of these connectivity issues occur during the weekend. Instaconnect has utterly failed as a network provider when it made me realize that I made a huge mistake cancelling my Comcast service. Tenants of apartments should provide their feedback of Instaconnect to their apartment managers. Even for those that think they're getting Instaconnect for "free" their rent is being used to pay for the service in the apartment complex. Instaconnect is not an apartment amenity when it is simply unusable to this degree. read more

Instaconnect hands down the worst internet provider I have ever had to displeasure of being forced to use. My apartment complex has internet written into the lease so you have to pay for it along with the rent and they charge $50 a month for a service that rarely ever works. This is student housing and students NEED reliable internet but instaconnect doesn't provide reliability. if I could do zero or negative stars I would. read more

Absolute garbage. Constantly being flagged over the device limit, doesn't work half the time, abysmal download speed. Don't even bother.

Worst internet provider I have ever had! My apartment complex, The Trees, recently changed internet providers to Instaconnect and I can say that was the worst decision ever! Instaconnect has hot spots around Davis also. However, the internet is really really bad! It took me about 5 months of calling back and forth to get decent internet. The internet is too unreliable and slow to function. The staff doesnt seem motivated to help either. Usually, if its free, its for me! But Instaconnect has been the first exemption to my life-rule! I would never wish Instaconnect internet on anyone!!! read more

The worst internet service I've ever had. Academy Lane apartments offered it for free, however it only worked about half of the time, and never between the hours of 4am and 8am. Many residents had to get their own internet through Comcast xfinity. I had to end up using my cellular data most of the time. Even when free, the junk slow unreliable service instaconnect provides is not worth using, you'll end up frustrated and with a server error message more often than not. read more

I take that back. Instaconnect disconnects every few SECONDS. AVOID AT ALL COSTS. I'm livid. Absolutely livid. read more

Instaconnect - Insta-"connect" "superior" connection. Makes Skype so much more "enjoyable." - Internet Service Providers Near Me

It is the worst internet provider. I'm living in one of the apartments with "free" instaconnect wifi, and "free" can be frustrating. The wifi stops working randomly, and it's common the internet is down in the daytime. Every morning I'll pray that the wifi is working when I turn on my laptop. If you have a webinar, it highly depends on luck if you can make it on time, because wifi might stop working 5 minutes before the meeting, and you have to rush out to the noisy Starbucks to use their internet. Not even to mention submitting homework online. It's a bad habit to wait till the last minute to submit, especially you don't know when the internet will stop working. read more

Instaconnect is a joke. Can't stream a movie on my Smart TV for more than 5mins before it starts buffering or just stops completely and tells me I'm not connected to the internet. Makes me re-login from my computer and iPhone constantly even though they're part of my device profile. Customer service is only available during banking hours (weekdays 9am-6pm) and, although they're nice enough when they (rarely) actually answer the phone, they don't call you back when you leave a message. DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY ON THIS "SERVICE"!!! read more

100+ mb/s! When it works. Of course, as the other reviewers have stated, it is frequently down and doesn't work at all. I am now sitting in a leased apartment for around $2000 a month, using my 10GB of AT&T personal hotspot data to type this review as instaconnect has been down for a day now. I do not think I have had worse internet service in my life. Please, please, please avoid like the plague. read more

If I could give negative stars I would. This is the worst internet service I have ever used/encountered. Considering instaconnect is used in most apartment complexes (as 'free'), I'm suprised of the lack of quality service. On average, once a month their service is down and you cannot contact anyone on weekends. I'm baffled as to why this company is still in business when they can't offer stable internet service. I would never recommend instaconnect, free or paid. read more

the absolute worst internet service. works for 30 min at at a time then you have to spend 10 min trying to get it to reconnect. dial up is more reliable then this instagarbage. Time is money and instaconnect is a big waste read more

Instaconnect is terrible. If you can even log in, (don't even think about it during peak usage times in the evening; approx 4-10pm), it signs you out randomly even when you are actively using the internet. I have tried to use it for Vidyo calls while telecommuting for work and it crashes every 5 minutes, otherwise the video freezes. Also tried to use it with a PS3 for watching Netflix and I am able to login about 10% of the time. Otherwise the internet browser won't even open for me to login before logging in to Netflix. When I can get on, the video feed is constantly buffering and I, again, get signed out randomly and have to quit to re-sign in to instaconnect. If you need consistent internet access, take your business elsewhere. read more

I utilized InstaConnect as my primary ISP provider while residing at Alvarado Parkside Apartments in Davis in 2014/2015. The connection was usually ok during the day, but from about 4 pm until after 10 pm and on weekends (high usage times) the connection was unreliable and practically useless. My spouse and I would lose connection every 5-10 minutes and would be unable to connect for up to 45 minutes at a time. I was in regular contact with InstaConnect customer service over a period of 3 months to try and work out this problem. Their customer service representatives, especially Crystal, were all very nice and apologetic over the phone--however the problem persisted and was never fixed. Each time I called I was given another reason why our service was not working and then assured it'd be fixed right away. Usually service would improve the next day and work for a day or two after my call, but then go back to not working and the cycle would start again. I got sick of dealing with this over and over again, so we finally decided to pay for Comcast service. It's an extra cost for us each month, but so far we've been able to use the internet any time of day without interruptions and without having to call customer service each time--something InstaConnect could not provide. Our evenings are much less stressful now that we have reliable service. read more

At Portage Bay apartments, instaconnect works in the middle of the weekday when no one is around. If you need to use the service during the evenings or at night, theres a 50% chance that it may be functioning. If you need the network during the weekend, dont count on it. If you rely on this to do school work, then you're going to want to get comcast or AT&T. Its unfortunate because the comcast connection isn't particularly good, but it won't die and remain unavailable for half a day to a day at a time.... its really unfortunate because the apartment started charging for this service this last year. When the network is broadcasting, it requires you to login. Around 50% of the time the login server will be unavailable with a notice that says "LB: ... check back later. Service unavailable" or the page just wont authenticate correctly allowing you to connect.... read more

Its not often I write reviews for telecommunication companies because on the average they are more frustrating then worth writing but I would like to say that I have used this service for some time now. In saying that you never get what you really want when working with wireless connections speeds less than the speed of light (which we all truly hope for, but in reality just cant achieve) Since they have upgraded their infrastructure the speeds have increased greatly ut sometimes I do get some bad lag. The real reason i'm writing this is their customer service.. it is exceptional. They have gone above and beyond on more than one occasion to help whatever problem I have hed. And they have earned this review. read more

Doesn't get any worse than this. How they have managed to stay in business this long is unbelievable. Unreliable and slow. Terrible signup process. read more

Terrible service, at least few days every month literally no internet connection and Very slow speeds the rest of the time.

Instaconnect had a variety of problems but they have gotten some new servers and I have not had any problems for the past few months. The speeds are now fast and consistent. I have given them an extra star read more

I wish I could put a 4 star at the very least for the customer service. Crystal is the nicest, sweetest customer representative that I have ever had the pleasure to talk with. HOWEVER the problem is that she is literally the flotation device that keeps this company afloat. There is always problems regarding the connection of the darn thing. Most weekends (and especially when crawling under online assignments), the connection doesn't function, constantly frustrating me with an internal error message or the dreaded limited connection icon. The evenings are the WORST: You watch Netflix, boom disconnected! You're playing PS3 online, BOOM disconnected! You are working on homework and click submit....Guess again, INSTACONNECT HAS ENCOUNTERED AN ERROR. It ALWAYS encounters a darn error! THIS is beyond frustrating and quite honestly deplorable...If you want to pride yourselves as a valid internet connection then please, for the love of freakin 21st century progress, FIX IT ONCE AND FOR ALL! I feel seriously bad for poor Crystal who keeps getting called constantly, because the damn repair mans (if they can even be called that) don't know how to do their job. She has been the person that made me give instaconnect two years of chance to better themselves in regards to their connection, but now my patience is up. I am saddened to lose the wonderful representative they have, but I am officially changing ships once and for all and getting an actual working connection even if it means footing an additional bill, rather than having a free product. read more

This service is black and white. Either it runs well or it doesn't run at all! During the day it works fine, but after 10pm it is absolutely the worst service I have used. I would not pay for the service, but if it comes free with your lease it's worth the hassle. However, the customer service people are super nice and incredibly helpful. read more

Seems like it's down half the time. A lot of the time I'm "connected" but with no internet access; this especially happens past around 11pm. Speeds are fine when it's working but it's far too unreliable. read more

I live in Wake Forest Apts and have been having trouble with the internet. Internet would die and disconnect very often. Usually this would be a problem for me but the customer service girl, Krystal, seems to really care and on top of things. The only reason why I give it a 4 star is because of her, otherwise Instaconnect definitely deserves 2 stars. She should get a raise for being so awesome! read more

I signed up for service at 10 am this morning. They picked up my call and set me up with the pro plan in about ten minutes. Super simple and fast. But then when I was set up, i still couldnt connect to the Internet. I was told that the DNS servers were temporarily down and that they would call me in a few minutes when they were ready and back up. Its been 6 hours now. And ive heard nothing from them. I tried calling back 5 times and they havent picked up once. I tried going to their office but none of the addresses theyve listed seem to be correct. Now i just want to cancel. This whole thing might actually be a scam. I wish i could report this to someone. read more

This is the worst internet service I have ever experienced. The technicians seem to be trying (once they get back to you after leaving a message) but nothing helps for long. read more

Instaconnect at portage bay apartments is garbage. While I have been ho me, its worked a total of four hours over the weekend.

This internet provider is the worst. My internet crashes frequently and when I turn on my computer there is a 50/50 chance at best of the internet working. If you play any kind of game, it will not work. On a good day my ping is around 1000, but it is normally around 1500. I have called instaconnect many times regarding outages and slow speeds, yet they do nothing. I can't wait to be rid of this horrible Internet. read more

Very unstable and 90% of the time very slow. You can hardly use it for Skype! ... My apartment offer it for free ( though I know I paid it with part of my apartment rent). BUT if I could make the choice I prefer the telephone line 20 years ago. read more