Utility Warehouse Broadband Reviews
Sometimes the best way to get a feel for a broadband provider is to read what those who are already customers think of the service they're receiving. Below are all the reviews we've received for Utility Warehouse.
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197 Customer Reviews for Utility Warehouse
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Not fibre but good for line in/router. Occasional problems but very good customer service. |
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| Richard Watchus | Faversham | Utility Warehouse | 2019-11-08 | |
DO NOT TRUST! RIP OFF!!! |
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| Yasmin | Dorset | Utility Warehouse | 2019-10-30 | |
Absolutely shocking company,we have been in a dispute for 7 nearly 8 weeks in regard to our broadband through UW, they have pushed us from one person to another to try to sort this appalling service out we have asked for them to cancel our broadband account and they will not, we cannot watch Netflix which i am still having to pay for, i am having to use my mobile data on my handset to access the internet in my home, they have advised me that i need boosters to support the wifi service i am NOT recieving, then asking md to send the products to them so they can reset them and they should work then, telling me the walls in my home are too thick, telling me my printer which is attached to the pc is affecting the signal, then my neibours wifi is stopping my wifi from working, any excuse but the TRUTH,we are being charged £44 a month for a product i am not recieving, ofcom it is we have been extremely patient, UTILITY WAREHOUSE, you are SHARKS, i will never recommend anyone to your services you only think of the commission you are being rewarded for selling a dreadful service. |
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| Annonymous | Utility Warehouse | 2019-10-28 | ||
Terrible company, I initially had my gas and electric with UW and decided to take up broadband and home phone thinking I’d be saving money! After being a customer for a few months I was offered a switch comparison, lo and behold I’ve been paying an extortionate amount! For a single mother of two I feel like I’ve been well and truly ripped off! In total I was paying around £130 pm for gas, electric, home phone and broadband! My new provider for gas and electric are charging me £58 pm for both and my broadband is now £18 pm! Do not sign up with UW it’s a rip off!! |
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| Tinytina01061990 | Cambridgeshire | Utility Warehouse | 2019-10-15 | |
I've been with uw since 2014 and considered them a good company. However our internet is truly shocking, the mobile is expensive and I've just switched our energy as even Double Gold we were paying a high price for electricity especially. I'm a former distributor and cannot recommend them to any of my customers any more. |
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| anonymous | west yorkshire | Utility Warehouse | 2019-10-08 | |
I have had such up and down the internet in my life, it always seemed to cut off at peak times. The whole Utility Warehouse is a scam and do not let yourself get kidded by it, the speed would be up and down the whole time, I speed checked at 1 pm one day the download speed was 40.MB, with fives it had gone down to 0.30, this how much a joke it stay well away |
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| James Gilmour | Salford Uk | Utility Warehouse | 2019-09-30 | |
Honestly the worst wifi experience i’ve ever had, would NEVER recommend to anyone that has a house with more than 1 room as the wifi service won’t reach. Would give no stars if that was possible. My room is on the floor above the router and the wifi connection is extremely poor and whenever I am watching a video, buffering occurs to the point where I have to turn on my own data to access the internet. Appalling when I’m paying for fibre optic wifi. Save your money. |
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| Levia | Northamptonshire | Utility Warehouse | 2019-09-26 | |
I have been a customer for 20 years and although there have been the odd hiccups (and what company doesn't have them) have been very pleased with Utility Warehouse. Also when we moved we only had to make one phone call and they sorted everything out for us. |
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| Lis | Somerset | Utility Warehouse | 2019-09-19 | |
The broadband is pretty appalling. I've struggled for it to work properly even when sat right next to the hub. As for any adjacent rooms well there is no luck. And I live in a small ground floor 2 bed apartment. |
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| Annet | Utility Warehouse | 2019-09-16 | ||
Our Household have been with UW for nearly 3 years now, and I am not satisfied. They have sorted phone problems a few times, but the bill payers are regularly stung with unexpectedly high bills, which are not itemized or adequately explained. All they can do is promise a temporary reduction, followed by a later Hike in Bills. |
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| J | Sussex | Utility Warehouse | 2019-09-13 | |
the only thing I can say they are the most greedy company I have ever dealt with don't go near them also the most dearest wifi per month |
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| clifford wilde | portsunlight wirral | Utility Warehouse | 2019-09-04 | |
Broadband problems for months since I switched from BT. Three new routers and two visits from Open Reach and Utility Warehouse are still saying it's not their equipment that's at fault. I've spent days on the 'phone going over and over the same solutions and nothing has worked. I'm buying my own router and will be saying Goodbye to Utility Warehouse |
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| Prowse | weston super mare | Utility Warehouse | 2019-08-28 | |
Shocking customer service. Insisting we restart our contract for moving house to another 18 months or pay £150 fee for finishing contract early. Speed/ router are complete crap and the internet is constantly cutting out. Only two of us in a small flat so no excuse for this. Would rather close the contract that give them a penny more than they are due. Complete scam! Avoid!! |
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| Pauline | Edinburgh | Utility Warehouse | 2019-08-21 | |
After having some technical issues with my internet provider,like the first time with out internet for about a week and no phone too,the second time with phone again and the internet speed very low,again for another week,this all in the first 7 months of contract the last thing I wanted is to renew my contract. Now I m moving address so I phone them to transferred my internet into the new address, when things here getting to the end this lady told on the phone that my contract would start again on the transferring date so I said that I was expecting a fee for this but not a renewal, so I told that I would thing about it and would phone her back on the next day to tell her my decision and she said that I had to make a decision straight away or she cut me off, I just said ok do what you like and turned the phone down on her. My question is it legal that your internet provider on a moving address situation demands a renewal even when you not satisfied with the service? Because during those two weeks of having technical issue they got compensation from open reach and me as a customer with out service got nothing. Who defends the customers when they been abused? Please advise |
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| Nuno | Kings Lynn | Utility Warehouse | 2019-08-18 | |
Can’t fault the service, same if not better speed than I was getting with BT (I think they put a block on it at peak times). The router is Equivalent to BT smart hub in that I can get good signal in every room. This was not the case on virgin and sky who I have had in the past. |
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| Paul | Bolton | Utility Warehouse | 2019-08-04 | |
It has been a week since I am having problem with the internet. The connection keeps on dropping. Called customer service today but the guy was like you need to buy a handset or borrow a phone from your neighbour for him to check what is wrong with the internet.WOW He did not even apologise once for the inconvenience he bluntly said it will be fixed by tomorrow and if not get a handset and call us again. Horrible customer service!!!! |
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| Pratigya Malla | Swindon | Utility Warehouse | 2019-07-30 | |
Reported internet and wifi down two dsys ago,asked when would it be fixed,was told engineers there now they did not know when it would be fixed and sugested I walked round to the exchange and asked the engineers my self. Still no Internet today Sunday tried to contact UW but no one there told to use the Internet. Very poor customer service being told go find out yourself we dont care and we dont know. |
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| Alan Harwood | Lymington | Utility Warehouse | 2019-07-28 | |
I called to make initial enquiries and these lot signed me up to a full package even though: |
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| WMcH | Doncaster | Utility Warehouse | 2019-07-20 | |
In my third year with UW and as yet no problems. Fully supported to change from BT and service the same as with BT, but less expensive. Initially, my anxious moments were well supported by UW team. They helped me when the old line required replacing and explained who to contact in BT Outreach. My usage is restricted to laptop, tablet and mobile, which all function very well using this broadband.Bills easy to access. |
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| Carmen | Shrewsbury | Utility Warehouse | 2019-06-16 | |
Been with them since February and I've not had many problems but the ones I've had have been rectified quickly. Going over these reviews all I can say is wow what a load of crap!!! |
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| Jaxvon | Oxford | Utility Warehouse | 2019-06-05 | |
The connection used to drop sometimes and I got lots of stuttering and freezing with streaming films, but my real problem was with the routers breaking after about a year. The standard router model struck me as very poor quality and I did not want to pay £2 extra a month for a much sturdier-looking model. They would never send me a spare modem so that I could have it in store til the existing one broke. I found the 9am opening time for the phone-in customer helpline rather late. The staff I spoke to were always polite - it wasn't their fault I found this company no that easy to deal with. |
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| Emily | London | Utility Warehouse | 2019-05-15 | |
Slow as anything. I rely on internet speed for work, at the moment I have had to use my phone hotspot to use the internet. Absolutely shameful. Avoid like the plague. |
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| Daniel Kidd | Paignton | Utility Warehouse | 2019-05-14 | |
We were told we would get up to 80mb download speed. Well not quite there but getting a constant 75mb. Very happy with that. Only lost broadband for 12 hours during the change over. Very happy with the hole package |
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| Mike | Puddletown | Utility Warehouse | 2019-05-07 | |
AVOID, AVOID as they are awful. |
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| Catherine kelly | Glasgow | Utility Warehouse | 2019-04-29 | |
Terrible, terrible, terrible along with awful, inadequate, poor, delay everything to ensure you need to pay £250 cancellation fees. Do not sign up ever unless you want no service and pay £1000 for the privilege. |
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| Catherine kelly | Barrhead | Utility Warehouse | 2019-04-29 | |
I have been very satisfied with UW. I have everything in my package except the budget card. When I have had a problem it has been dealt with promptly and in a friendly manner. For elderly people it is if you can afford to pay slightly more for the convenience of everything being under one number. Plus the big bonus is that they are in this country and not India. Convenience and peace of mind some times costs that little bit more. Finally when your family are left to wind up your affairs it’s only one number to ring. Satisfied customer no chasing around every year for new deals. |
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| Mary Biddulph | Huddersfield | Utility Warehouse | 2019-04-26 | |
I’ve just had a review of my utilities by UW to find out I’d be about £30 a month worse off , it all seemed like a bit of a pyramid selling scam to me, make sure you read terms and conditions to see what you get charged for |
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| Steve | Yeovil | Utility Warehouse | 2019-04-18 | |
This company are extremely good at apologising and blowing smoke off your backside but absolutely crap at sorting out any problem. I was supposed to have Broadband and phone running a month ago but OpenReach failed to connect me (beware this godawful company too!) I have spent the last 3 weeks sitting on the phone (my mobile of course) trying to get anyone at UW to listen to my complaint. All they kept doing was telling me my phone and broadband were live when they clearly weren't as I don't even have a phone line or socket yet!! When I tried to cancel, their sales team said I'd have to pay an early termination fee. Vast numbers of staff listened to me rant on and yet very few of them actually called back, actioned anything or kept me updated. Not even a non-computer generated email to keep me updated. |
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| Bob Connell | Great Yarmouth | Utility Warehouse | 2019-04-13 | |
Ive been with this company for two years. Last year they sent me a large bill for only gas. I called them about the leaking meter and when they sent the engineer they engineer told me that they would sort out the problem. They replace my meter and then they told me that they couldnt erase the large sum of money for the gas usage and they told me they would monitor the amount of gas i would spend over 12 months. The sum after the 12 months was very low compared to the original bill. So i told them i would pay around 50 pounds a month however they told ms they made a desicion to make me pay 350 pounds a month. I was shocked. They wouldnt listen to me and kept pressing on that i had to pay more than i needed to. This company is dodgy and a rip off do not sign up with them at all. The costumer service was terrible and rude they didnt listen to me at all. Ive been having problems for the past 2 years and im sick and tired. |
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| Bakhshyar | Swindon | Utility Warehouse | 2019-04-08 | |
Do not sign up with this company. We have had nothing more than problems with our broadband service since joining in November. Our connectivity with Sky prior to this was excellent but thought we could save money by combining our energy bills and broadband with one company. An engineer from BT Outreach has confirmed the problem is with the router and he receives numerous complaints from UW customers with the same issues as ours. The customer service team at UW have been extremely unhelpful so far. Why in 2019 have this company been allowed to get away with this. I hope the company can be investigated and save any others from the stress we have endured |
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| Heather | Taunton | Utility Warehouse | 2019-04-03 | |
Unfortunately I have to agree with many of the reviews on here. Had quite an out of date BT router/BT broadband previously, "upgraded" to the best router UW offer. Have never had problems with buffering and low connectivity before. Rely on this to work from home and now have long stretches in the day when I cannot work. Also new "state of the art" router does not get anywhere near as far into house as old "out of date" BT router. Not liking the sound of comments that it's difficult to get away from them. Want to do so ASAP, maybe should have read the smallprint...? By the way, only UW distributor who actually gave whole name on here was Karen Bailey. I'm sure quite a few of the glowing reviews on here are from people who make money out of distribution. |
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| Al | London | Utility Warehouse | 2019-04-01 | |
Before I start, I can categorically say I am not a UW distributor. I cannot understand how so many people are complaining about poor broadband with UW. I have been on the mid range broadband and router for a year and have never had less than 30mbps. My in-laws are on it too, and also have had no issues. The only thing I will say is it doesn’t work well with bt hub routers for some reason as I tried it when I left bt just out of curiosity. We have 3 ps4’s, 3 computers, countless streaming sticks and we’ve had no issues so suprised by the negative comments. |
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| Martin A | Cambridge | Utility Warehouse | 2019-03-26 | |
Avoid, Avoid Avoid!!!!!!!!! |
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| Jan Efraim | Sheffield | Utility Warehouse | 2019-03-20 | |
I couldn't understand my bills. I have just paid my final one and had to ring up because I hadn't a clue. I still don't understand what he was going on about something about paying my bills two months afterwards. So grateful to not be with them anymore. |
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| Helen | Blackpool | Utility Warehouse | 2019-03-18 | |
I'm on standard broadband which is averaging about 4-6mbps for ethernet, quite normal for ADSL connections, however on wifi the broadbands atrocious.The speed In the mornings is usually under 1mbps and 2 in the afternoon. The wifi can go down at any given moment. On the rare good days I get 4-5mbps. There are better options out there for broadband. |
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| Sam | Leicester | Utility Warehouse | 2019-03-16 | |
Absolutely shocking. I signed up to this company a couple of years ago, I immediate found the broadband was rubbish compared to what I had been used to with Sky, so I had to pay to upgrade which defeated the object of saving money, I still have problems with broadband mainly in the evening despite upgrading. I am now having nightmare with my Gas & Elec bill as they have allowed my bill to build up, since smart meter put in this year, and I have now been told I owe them a small fortune. Absolutely disgusting. I am going to save up to pay them off, and then cancel all my subscriptions with them. They don't deserve my business. |
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| Scott | East Mids | Utility Warehouse | 2019-02-22 | |
This may take a while. |
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| Verity Smith | The Wirral | Utility Warehouse | 2019-02-11 | |
This broad band is absolutely shocking, I changed to UW broadbands with the promise that it would be faster and cheaper but ever since I changed all I have had is problems, and hoping it would improve I upgraded the internet package I was on and tbh it’s even worse than the lower package, constantly buffering, lagging. I was on my own in my house with only 1-2 devices connected and I was lagging all over the place on my PlayStation, and stuff was really slow on my phone. |
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| Gareth | South Wales | Utility Warehouse | 2019-01-30 | |
As a customer of Utility Warehouse I have to say how impressed I am with all of their services. The broadband that we have is the Ultra+ with a Super Router and it is FANTASTIC! Never drops out, we have lots of gadgets and gizmos attached to the router and no problem at all. My son is a gamer and we stream movies and TV. |
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| Karel Bailey | Ashford, Kent | Utility Warehouse | 2019-01-29 | |
very slow broadband keeps buffering |
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| anthony | thornton | Utility Warehouse | 2019-01-26 | |
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