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Overview

Earthlink has a rating of 1.35 stars from 12 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Earthlink ranks 68th among Internet Service Provider sites.

  • Service
    5
  • Value
    5
  • Shipping
    4
  • Returns
    2
  • Quality
    4
Positive reviews (last 12 months): 14.3%
Positive
1
Neutral
0
Negative
6
How would you rate Earthlink?
Top Positive Review

“Review for Earthlink”

Andriyaelenor f.
1/6/24

EarthLink has been a reliable internet service provider for <a href="https :// internettvwifi.com/optimum-tv/">optimum tv</a> decades, offering a range of plans to suit various needs. Their user-friendly website provides easy navigation for checking available services, managing accounts, and accessing support. However, the lack of widespread availability in some regions may limit choices for potential customers. Overall, EarthLink's commitment to customer satisfaction and transparent offerings makes it a solid choice for internet services.

Top Critical Review

“If I could give this company zero stars I would - stay away”

Kat k.
10/21/23

I work from home and when I moved to a new city, I decided to try earthlink a try. I immediately regretted my decision. Terrible service, they nickel and dime you for everything. I have been getting under 1 download speed and 1 upload speed and have spent hours on the phone with them - I have to use my cell phone's hotspot for the service I pay this company to do. Their support team promises to escalate an issue and call you back and then nothing happens. Stay away!

Reviews (12)

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Thumbnail of user katk54
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
October 21st, 2023

I work from home and when I moved to a new city, I decided to try earthlink a try. I immediately regretted my decision. Terrible service, they nickel and dime you for everything. I have been getting under 1 download speed and 1 upload speed and have spent hours on the phone with them - I have to use my cell phone's hotspot for the service I pay this company to do. Their support team promises to escalate an issue and call you back and then nothing happens. Stay away!

Tip for consumers:
Stay away

Products used:
Home wireless internet

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Thumbnail of user 1968mlroll
1 review
0 helpful votes
July 17th, 2023

Today I cancelled my internet, I have saved money with my cell phone provider. Also combining my cell and internet bill. On canceling with EarthLink they first tried to convince me to stay by lowering my payment, which was still higher than the internet carrier i was transferring to, but; EarthLink also refused to give me a refund bc I did not cancel on a specific date. I am outraged! What a tip off company!

Thumbnail of user georget1407
1 review
0 helpful votes
February 7th, 2024

I haven't been with EarthLink not even a day. The customer service representative don't give you none of the right information! I talk to 3 different representative & they all lied to me on different things! All EarthLink want is is your money! I ask to speak to a manager but, they want let you talk to anyone! I have been so upset all day about this Internet! I want.to cancel my service but, they continue to lie like they are going to fix the problem! I am getting ready to dispute my transaction with them & I'm going to send their equipment back! They have charge my card twice but still no service!

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I just think when you in a business and you selling things just be straight forward with everything because me personally I can't stand to be lied too!!! And the bad part about it EarthLink has taken $74.95 and $81.00 off my bank card but still don't have no service! I am literally sick behind this! My head been hurting me all day because of the nonsense the customer service has put me through!!!

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I paid for the Internet service ,but I haven't been able to get it started! I talk three representatives& all of them told three different lies!!!!

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Thumbnail of user gtcoleski
1 review
0 helpful votes
July 3rd, 2023

The service is over priced compared to other providers, but if you're not satisfied, there's a $175 early termination fee...not to mention the hassle and UPS charges to return the equipment. I don't know how they get away with it.

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Thumbnail of user kimberlyr1972
1 review
0 helpful votes
March 6th, 2024

5 days of service is ALL we got before running out of data! I paid for a month's service! I specifically told the first moron (when I signed up) what exactly we use internet for (school, streaming tv & music)! What on God's green earth made the idiot think 5 days worth of data was enough, is beyond me! THEEEEN when I called to ask about it, they wanted me to either upgrade or add data! $130 later, here I am on the phone AGAIN trying to rectify the issue! I was refused even a partial refund, because "I've received the router & the internet did work" (for 5 whole days)! Their customer service (or lack thereof) is HORRIBLE & so is their internet service! It's one BIG SCAM! Do yourself a favor & run! Run away, as fast as you can!

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Thumbnail of user andriyaelenorf
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
January 6th, 2024

EarthLink has been a reliable internet service provider for <a href="https :// internettvwifi.com/optimum-tv/">optimum tv</a> decades, offering a range of plans to suit various needs. Their user-friendly website provides easy navigation for checking available services, managing accounts, and accessing support. However, the lack of widespread availability in some regions may limit choices for potential customers. Overall, EarthLink's commitment to customer satisfaction and transparent offerings makes it a solid choice for internet services.

Thumbnail of user alanism1
1 review
0 helpful votes
July 22nd, 2020

They had told me I would have internet by Wednesday 8am-11am and nobody ever came and I called them and they told me they would call back due to taking care of customers and I never got a call back or my internet! Very furious when I called again they said I need a router and that they hadn't shipped my router out yet and not sure when it will be shipped.

Thumbnail of user angryc152
1 review
0 helpful votes
August 7th, 2023

ZERO stars is more appropriate. This company buys/rents its internet from another company like century link, AT&T, etc. or which ever company is in your area. Then they cap your data speeds and charge you the same price or higher for the full speed they rented. They pray on people that aren't tech savvy or know the jargon. For example, they have been ripping my 70 year old mother off for over a year until i recently was over to her house and investigated why here internet she is paying 60 a month for was so lousy. Century link in her area offer speed up to 100 mbps for 50 a month and 940 mbps for 75 a month. EarthLink rents from century link in her area. My mother even has century link equipment provided by EarthLink, they tricked my mother into paying 60 bucks a month for a capped speed of 3 mbps. 3. I wouldn't pay 10 bucks a month for that, let a lone 60. So I had my mom call them and see what was up, they did nothin but lie to her and gave her some bs speech about that is the highest speeds in the area and blah blah blah - LIE. I am a tech, I do understand how it works and "century link doesn't offer speed that low in this area, EarthLink is ripping customers off knowing full well that for 60 bucks a month they could and should have over 100 mb/s for that price. Charging 60/month for 3 mbps should be criminal. No business should be allowed to operate this way. Cant believe they get away with this crap. DONT DO BUSNESS WITH THESE PEOPLE> DONT DO IT> YOU WILL PAY FOR A DOZEN EGGS AND ONLY RECEIVE 2 EGGS, WHILE THEY SELL YOUR OTHER 10 EGGS at THE SAME RATE TO OTHER UNKNOWING CUSTOMERS and THE KICKER IS THEY BOUGHT THE EGGS FROM THE SAME STORE IN YOUR AREA THAT YOU CAN SHOP AT.

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Thumbnail of user michaelh121
12 reviews
80 helpful votes
September 5th, 2017

I've been a subscriber for years and I've noticed in the past couple of years how bad earthlink is at filtering out spam from email. Every day I get lots of spam with the '. Info' tail. I have reported these to earthstink numerous times, and have even sent messges to them asking if they will do something about it, to no avail. It seems apparent that earthstink derives a financial benefit from plastering this junk on my email account. A robot firewall would be an effective means to keep this crap away, but since earthstink obviously gets paid for these ads, it will never get better. Had I not been using this email addy for so long so that my legitimate correspondents know where to send my messages, I would go to another provider.

Thumbnail of user karab35
1 review
0 helpful votes
October 31st, 2017

Tried Earthlink Hyperlink for a mere week and it was a bad experience from day 2. First off, the sales rep told me over chat the incorrect installation price and I had to talk to two different representatives to get the quoted price which I was told would be refunded over the span of 3 months. Well they knew what they were doing because the service is absolutely horrible and I will never keep it for the span of three months. I've had it for one week and I'm done. I chatted and called tech support 5 times altogether. I was told I'd get speeds of 12 mbps but really that meant only 80% of that (seriously?), well, I was regularly getting less than 1 mbps. I would call, they would ask me to turn off the modem, restart the computer (eye roll), 'clear' their lines, and the speed would go up to 12 mbps. Immediately after ending the call the speed would be back down to less than 1. This happened twice in one day while only trying to use one device. Imagine a regular day when my husband is streaming Netflix, my daughter is gaming, and I'm listening to Pandora. I called to cancel, the process took 15 mins and I was initially told my monthly charge wouldn't be refunded although she eventually agreed to refund the $32.37. I'm still out the $69.99 install fee for a service I had for about a week and was abysmal the entire time, plus the time dealing with the install and customer service. At no time was the sales rep upfront about the actual speed I would get or that this would be using AT&T DSL lines (which I had tried before and knew was very slow) and gave me misinformation on top of that (I'll never see the refund for the difference in price on the install fee I was quoted). If anyone out there is thinking about using Earthlink--DON'T DO IT!

Thumbnail of user emm27
1 review
2 helpful votes
March 4th, 2010

MISLEADING! They offer to help you get a "professional" website up and running, built to "your specifications" and instead, they put together something that looks elementary at best, and do not even bother to follow the guidelines you laid out or even bother to make sure the information is correct! They even went as far as to put up a fraudulent "customer accolades" page with made up comments on it! And when I went back to them after this initial site was developed, per their request, with corrections that needed to be made, they showed me how I can change them! They published it with incorrect, incomplete, and fraudulent information and would not even unpublish it, let alone correct it! I had to take time (immediately) from my busy schedule to unpublish it to avoid embarrassment for our little company at a very important time for us. I feel completely ripped off! Know what you are getting yourself into here and don't expect much.

Thumbnail of user jc109
17 reviews
31 helpful votes
April 3rd, 2016

This Earthlink call center is located in India. It's corporation is being ran in India, though it is registered in the US. I canceled my internet service with them upon discovery! I am uncomfortable with my private network being monitored in another country.

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