flakey

adjective

  1. 1

    Consisting of flakes or of small, loose masses; lying, or cleaving off, in flakes or layers; flakelike.

  2. 2

    (of a person) Unreliable; likely to make plans with others but then abandon those plans.

  3. 3

    (of a thing) Unreliable; working only on an intermittent basis; likely to malfunction.

    I cannot enjoy the online game because of my flaky Internet connection.

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