3,747 Customer Reviews over 375 pages
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- Location
- rotherham
- Reviewing
- Plusnet
- Date
- 2015-02-21
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Right then, plusnet customer service very friendly on the phone and promise you every thing will be OK.
Now for the translation we don’t have a clue what we are doing and we will get round to it one day.
Its only taken 18 months to get them to install fibre, don't know how they can run that TV add
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- Manchester
- Reviewing
- Plusnet
- Date
- 2015-02-19
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Sounded good when I signed up I went with Plus net because the customer services were in the UK and they promised a fast fibre optic connection for a reasonable price and they promised no drop off during peak time. However I was a little concerned that there was no cool of period, as soon as it's installed - that's it! but I trusted them. as soon as it was installed we had problems my smart tv is located directly above the modem and it is connected/hard wired with a Cat 6 cable. Even so it buffered when streaming movies. I was paying for 35mb/s which should be sufficient but when I did a speed test I was getting less than 18mb/s I used 2 other speed checkers and all delivered the same results and at peak time the download dropped to 9mb/s and the upload to 3mb/s.
So I decided to call their award winning customer service. After 40 minutes on hold trying to get through I realised that I would rather speak to someone outside the country quickly rather than not speak to anyone in the UK!
I tried on 3 separate occasions with the same results and when I finally got through to them they simply said it mush be my phone line to the house which they could do nothing about. 18 months later now my contract has come to an end I have switched supplier... added to which plusnet have charged me a £30 disconnection fee. I emailed them explaining the problems I have had and they simply didn't care they said Sorry you had issues you should have contacted us more and the disconnection fee stands! I couldn't be more disappointed and I urge people not to be drawn in by their promises like I was.
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- Durham
- Reviewing
- Plusnet
- Date
- 2015-02-18
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This is a bit of a mixed review which reflects my experiences with PlusNet.
Firstly I had left Sky and moved to TalkTalk who almost bankrupted me by deleting my phone number without notice and issuing a new one which they wouldnt tell me what the number is. As I am self employed this was major. Sky couldnt help as the number had been cancelled and TalkTalk refused point blank so I cancelled the service and came to PlusNet who said they could help - brilliant!
Firstly though there was an error by plusnet as they put the order through on the wrong number so it was rejected. This was only flagged up because I was constantly checking what was happening. Second time though it went through fine although the changeover was delayed quite a bit.
After the changeover I realised I wasnt getting CallerID - this is chargeable extra by Plusnet even though it costs them nothing. £12 a year!
I also realised that the international calling package I'd paid extra for only allowed 300 minutes whereas with Sky it was unlimited. So basically PlusNet was not really any cheaper than Sky for a more limited package.
In the weeks that followed I had a few problems with errors by Plusnet. All were resolved after a phone call.
Whilst on the subject of phone calls, it is great that Plusnet support staff are all UK (yorkshire) based. They are very helpful and in the most part very friendly and knowledgeable. However wait times on the phone are extremely long. Again in comparison to Sky the wait times are terrible although once through to someone the quality of service is good.
Despite being the same line as with Sky my internet speeds are massively reduced. In fact PlusNet now claim my line should be getting 11Mb/s (it is capable of 21Mb/s). With Sky I had a D/L of 16.5--17.5Mb/s and upload of 1.0-1.2Mb/s. With Plusnet this is down to 10.5-13Mb/s down and 0.3-0.8Mb/s up.
Plusnet also have very aggressive traffic management and their peak time (which is actually 16 hours of the day!) can cause real issues with downloads. Choppy video on Youtube and lots of buffering and download speeds dropping to 2.5Mb/s
So all in all they are very nice people who are happy to help but the quality of their product is far below expectations. Additionally I moved away from Sky due to huge price hikes but in reality PlusNet aren't really much cheaper once you take the true details of the packages and compare them.
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- slough
- Reviewing
- Plusnet
- Date
- 2015-02-17
- Comments
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Hi I am a new customer to Plusnet, when I join the service they told me my line speed is 2meg which I will be getting, I was getting this speed with sky before, but after joining Plusnet I am not even getting 1meg. When I called them they said the speed we told you was estimated and they is the speed you will get. I will not recommend Plusnet to anyone and will leave asap.
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- West Yorkshire
- Reviewing
- Plusnet
- Date
- 2015-02-17
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DREADFUL APPALLING CUSTOMER SERVICE. DO NOT USE THIS COMPANY.
I went to PN as I didn't want to use BT due to past experience by me and friends and family. BT haven't been at all good. However I have recently been told that PN is owned by BT. If this is correct, it doesn't surprise that the customer service and treatment of it's paying customers is so bad. They use the excuse of 'terms and conditions' to do whatever they want to.. Put prices up, even thought you haver a contract, charging if you decide to leave the company. Any excuse to get money out of you. They recently put the line rental charge up by just over a pound a month for every customer. They have over 3 million customers, which means they instantly increased there income by almost £4 million pounds a month. !! Corporate greed and profiteering.
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- N. Kent
- Reviewing
- Plusnet
- Date
- 2015-02-16
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Slow speeds, sometimes slower than dial up. Sporadic broadband service, router not fit for purpose. On the plus side the staff polite & helpful but lack capability to do anything. Worth paying the early termination fee to get out.
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- Northampton
- Reviewing
- Plusnet
- Date
- 2015-02-16
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Oh how far this company has fallen. After 3 years of loyal service i have cancelled my contract with them thanks to 22 day fault lead times and 10 day customer complaint lead times. Communictaion from them is poor and in some cases rude, download and upload speed are never what is advertised and they will drop the cost for new customers without changing your price so you end up paying more.
Would steer well clear!
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- Location
- yorkshire
- Reviewing
- Plusnet
- Date
- 2015-02-16
- Comments
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I used to get a regular 7 meg plus speed. I now get 5.3 at best. They claim nothing is wrong and blame an extension lead that I DO NOT HAVE. Likely to change ISP very soon.
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- Location
- United Kingdom
- Reviewing
- Plusnet
- Date
- 2015-02-16
- Comments
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I didnt think l could hate a British company this much. Problems with them from sign up, to installation up to CASBACK offer to call waiting to speak to Customer Services 15/45 mins OMG they are in communications. After waiting they refused to let me speak to a superviser and said they would email me my outcome. Worse than useless.
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- Cheltenham
- Reviewing
- Plusnet
- Date
- 2015-02-16
- Comments
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I followed their instructions and sent a scanned copy of my mother's death certificate along with my contact details and offered to settle the balance on the account.
They ignored my contact details and sent a demand for payment by post to her empty house! When I found it I rang the number they gave and was given a twenty minute wait on the phone before some poor bloke received my customer feedback and took my payment.
He explained that they had received my email but some automated system had spotted that payment was late and forwarded the issue to a debt recovery agency. What kind of people choose to ignore my offer to pay and invoke debt recovery instead?
I found the whole experience thoughtless and insensitive.
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