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Review by herbert0 See Profile

  • Location: Shelbyville, Shelby, KY, USA
  • Cost: $40 per month
  • Install: about 5 days
Throughput is fantastic! Blows away my old 3MB DSL. :-)
Billing dept! OMG!! Love the service, but the billing dept sucks! Took me 4 months to get an accurate bill!
Great service for the money.
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I am an in IT and support over a hundred desktops and servers. I often have to tunnel into work from from home via VPN. I previously had 3MB DSL line, but it could not handle more than 2 systems at a time, especially when I had a remote desktop connection. I tried Insight and it was great. I'm moving the rest of our systems onto Insight and will be removing the DSL. For now, the 10MB package is working well, but it's nice to know that I can go to 20 or even 30 soon if I need it. The only issue I've had was the billing department (accounting) which could not seem to get my statement right for 4 months. It was very annoying to have to call their billing dept every month to tell them they didn't get it right.

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Review by maxey13 See Profile

  • Location: Anderson, Madison, IN, USA
  • Cost: $34 per month
Solid and fast connection
None at this time
Great speed and reliability
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Insight has been rock solid for the last several months. No problems and we use alot of internet here with 4 computers going most of the time.

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Review by shamrin See Profile

  • Location: Lexington, Fayette, KY, USA
  • Cost Contract price not specified.
Dependable, good speed and good service
I really have no complaints
Pretty good service and product for having a near monopoly on broadband
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I've been using this service for 18 months and have had only one outage which was self-inflicted (my parents who also use Insight have, however, had a number of outages). We use Skype, do considerable downloading of files, music, etc. and I have not had one complaint about speed or reliability.

We did have our service cut off once due to one of my neighbors getting on my wireless and uploading some movies, apparently the MPAA complained. OK, Insight should have warned me about this before suspending our service, but once I was able to speak with someone there, they got it turned back on quickly.

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Review by RacenutBG See Profile

  • Location: Bowling Green, Warren, KY, USA
  • Cost: $200 per month
  • Install: about 4 days
very little downtime
insight occasionally oversells a node causing a slowdown
Works well, worth the money
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Less hassle than a dish

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Review by Engineer_TA See Profile

  • Location: Lexington, Fayette, KY, USA
  • Cost: $159 per month
  • Install: about 10 days
Decent service and uptime. No caps (yet).
Customer service OK but at times lacking. No clear upgrade path for future procuts (Docsis 3.0 for example).
Decent service if not a tad overpriced. New promotions for new customers are so much better than what the existing customer.
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Speed: 10 Mbit down/ 1Mbit up: Consistant speeds. Somewhat pricey for those tiers though.

Enjoy digital television but the need to rent the boxes (at somewhat high prices) to watch extended channels or HD is poor in my opinion.

Telephone service solid, but don't get unlimited calls. Can't switch directly to Phone 2.0 at promotional rate.

If it weren't for the headaches of changing all e-mail based accounts, would have moved to another service by now. Still may.

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Review by dadbrockway See Profile

  • Location: Louisville, Jefferson, KY, USA
  • Cost: $81 per month (12 month contract)
  • Install: about 15 days
Fast internet accress, good phone service and cable service
Is almost the worst tecnical support I've experienced especially for online support. I've sent emails with no reply
Excellent service just don't haver problems
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I hesitated to go with Insight internet. I've had them for cable and haven't liked their customer support. But AT&T got too expensive for speeds slower than Insight Broadband cable. I went with the package deal: cable TV, Broadband Internet 10 meg down/1.2 up, and phone service. Everything has worked well. However recently, for the last three mornings, I have not been able to send emails. I can receive them but not send. I've left emails, I've looked at online FAQs, and I tried NetChat. FAQS sucks but that true with most companies. In my experience FAQs rarely cover the problem I'm having. I have received no replies to my emails, and no one ever picked up on the Live NetChat, and this was at 9:00 EST. So product is very good, price is ok, but technical and customer service is awful.

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Insight over AT&T

8-24-2009

After fighting AT&t this AM for more than an Hour and fifteen min., trying to get them to understand, that I wanted to be hooked back up to my telephone and cable services because of the flood in Jeffersonville IN. Yes it took that long, I finally got the order through.
I made one call to Insight to get my cable hooked up, it took less than 15 min. to do so!
I then inquired as to their package deal, I was told what I wanted to know, right away!
I made one more call to AT&T to cancel my order and went through, Insight it cost me less and only took a short time to achieve this.
Now it boils down to this AT&T is getting to big to handle coustomers and their needs! The are taking over all of the smaller phone services, and returning to the old MA bell!
Your best be go with you loco cable subscriber!
B. Morton, New Albany, In.

Review by fancydancer See Profile

  • Location: Springfield, Sangamon, IL, USA
  • Cost: $44 per month
  • Install: about 7 days
Speeds. No contract. Reliability
Only get a break if you get their phone deal.
Worth it. You may pay a little more, but you get a lot.
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With speeds of 10000/1000 I can't complain. $30 a month for one year was the deal when I signed up.

Edit: No longer in an Insight service area. Above review may not be applicable.

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Review by nzakanzaka See Profile

  • Location: Mississauga, ON, Canada
  • Cost: $38 per month
  • Install: about 3 days
Speed. In-House customer support is quick.
Has ceased working once
Helped me switch to Vonage and ditch AT &T. Therefore good.
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I've just had this service for a month, and overall I'm satisfied. I had AT&T's Elite DSL, but it was quirky these past few months. Call AT&T, and you would go through hell to get support. Insight has very quick installation time; it has great speed; and when the service packed up 5 days ago, they sent someone within 2 hours to go through the whole apartment wiring. He found the problem in the apt cabling and was out within an hour and half. So far so good.

Modem: Motorola SURFBoard SB5120

Comcast bought Insight, and the only good they've done is for themselves. They increase the price every other day, and the speed is appalling now. I wonder why Comcast is so bad. I'm looking forward to the time I move to my new house in a month. I'll use the opportunity to dump Comcast.

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Review by rjbasye See Profile

  • Location: Dry Ridge, Grant, KY, USA
  • Cost: $54 per month
  • Install: about 5 days
Fast ,very reliable & almost no downtime
Cost without cable television
I love it
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Upated June 4th 2009
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I am now using there 20 meg download service and it is supper fast. It is only 10.00 more a month so I figured I would try it. Insightbb is the only ISP available in my area that is broadband.

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I've been a subscriber to InsightBB ever since it became available to me back in April 2001. I haven't had any complaints with them and the service has been very reliable in my neighborhood. It has only been down a few times in the last 2 and a half years and my download speeds have ranged from 3 to 3.5mb down.

The upload speeds are not fast. I only have been able to get bps and while Comcast and Time Warner have raised there upload speeds to 384kbps, InsightBB only has 384 up if you give them $35 more a month which to me is not worth it.

InsightBB has since raised its speeds to 4mb down and 384kbps up. and 6mb down and 512kbps up for the faster teir which puts them in line with the ADSL service that the phone company offers if you live within range of the CO.

In my area InsightBB is the only choice for broadband since Cincinnati Bell ADSL service is limited. I am happy to have cable broadband where I live and would not want to go back to dialup service.

Update

As of 11/01/06 InsightBB has raised its basic teir speeds to 10/1. I'm getting close to that execpt during the early evening hours when speeds drop to half of what's advertised.


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Review by brad152 See Profile

  • Location: Columbus, Franklin, OH, USA
  • Cost: $50 per month
  • Install: about 2 days
Very Fast, Reliable Service
I've never had any issues
Very great service, would reccomend to everyone!
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I have had Insight's version of Road Runner here in Columbus, OH for over three years now, when i first subscribed it was 4Mbps down/512k up.. Since then they had pushed up to 7Mbps/512k up for the standard service and that was $40, so when they had called and offered me their "Turbo" service for an extra $10 per month, i decided to take them up on it. I could not be happier with this service since it had taken me up to a guaranteed 15Mbps down/ 768k up.

I usually get around 27-32Mbps down and i usually stay right at the 768k upload.

In the three years i've had the service, it's only went down once and that was for a fiber upgrade in the neighborhood and i was made well aware in advance of the outage, so i am definitely pleased with the service and am extremely happy with what i get for what i pay! i would recommend them to anyone

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