BT 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 BT.
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Based on 10524 customer ratings since 2020-03-03 (Show all time ratings)
Ratings are left by users of our speed test as well as by reviewers. Recent star ratings summarise the last 12 months of ratings or the last 100 ratings placed, whichever is largest.
3063 Customer Reviews for BT
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disgusted by all service with BT won’t give them a rating for anything, they just fob you off when you have a problem |
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Jean | Wakefield | BT | 2020-11-17 | |
After years of sub 5 Mbs speed, and waiting to be connected to fibre (about 300 yards from the house), we installed 4G broadband. We now get 30-35Mbs download, and about 10-15Mbs upload. This may be pretty pathetic for city dwellers but if you live in the countryside you will appreciate that these numbers are high. So if you live in the middle nowhere, like us, it might be worth trying a 4G service. We needed an aerial on the outside of the house, but BT installed that for free, a rare example of good customer service. We pay £50 monthly and are capped at 500GB monthly, but again, having tolerated miserably bad speeds for years we're quite happy at the moment |
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Jim | Attleborough | BT | 2020-11-15 | |
Worst service I have ever experienced. New installation, they ddnt turn up 2 times to the appointment. Finally intalled was working ok for a month and then they canelled it! A new order had to be made and start all over again, have been without service for more than a week now and no end in sight. Pathetic. Avoid |
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Nick T | London | BT | 2020-11-14 | |
Been without network connection for nearly 4 weeks now. Firstly i was told that it was an external problem and would be sorted within 5 days. I then had a text to say the problem had been sorted..... it had'nt. Another hour long call and they arranged a house visit and i had to wait another 5 days. I booked a day off work. At 2.30 i had an email to say i needed to book an engineer to fix my problem. I telephoned bt again an they said |
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Paula | Wrexham1 | BT | 2020-11-10 | |
Most days at some point ,I get the message "your computer is not connected . " I have .breeze block walls. The signal only had to travel 3 to 5 metres . |
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RoyB | Bucks | BT | 2020-11-05 | |
Our experience with BT is absolutely horrible. We signed up with them only because they were the only provider offering over 100mb speed at our current address. They booked us an engineer visit on two occasions which they've missed (both), then 3rd time lucky, but leaving us without internet for 5 weeks. Now we are moving home and they can only offer us 30mb to 60mb at the new address. They wanted us to sign a fresh new contract on 30mb for a further 24months. Of course, we want out of our contract since they cannot honor their part of the deal & Virigin can offer us up to 500mb. They are not allowing us to leave without a buyout fee which is ridiculous. Since they want us to go on a fresh contract, it only shows that the old one does not stand. Absolutely horrible. |
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D | London | BT | 2020-11-05 | |
Internet down for 2 weeks now. From first day promised will come back in 24 hrs - never did . Both my wife and I opened complaints and got "assigned case owner "- never heard back ( not even an email nor phone call ) - and now my complaint marked off as completed and resolved without any feedback or progress . Openreach staff told me outside on main road it was their fault as they mixed cables - transferring greenboxes on the first day of internet loss . I wish I could mark no stars on this - but Trustpilot only allows me to mark lowest 1 star - absolute appalling ( both of us rely on the internet at home for income - during covid . If my phone signal was good enough in area or if I had an alternative option - I would have swapped already . |
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Jacques | Burton , Christchurch | BT | 2020-11-04 | |
An absolute joke of a company in terms of service and looking after your new customers. We were due internet on Friday and one and a half weeks later we're still speaking to support to even get an engineer sent out. The initial engineer wasn't able to complete work outside the flat due to requiring a hoist to get up the pole, however he just left and never told us even though we were just across the road. |
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Jesper Johansson | Dalston | BT | 2020-11-02 | |
I wanted to post this as a complaint on their site but before I had finished posting it, it was already closed. Showing they clearly care about your feedback. I can't be bothered to change this text so that's it's not directly addressing them but I want to post this to get this off my chest. So keep that in mind. |
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sarah | milton keynes | BT | 2020-10-29 | |
Broadband keeps cutting out. Had more serious outages in 3 months with BT than 10 years with Virgin. BT can only book engineers a week ahead, and even then they aren't guaranteed to show up. Even when they did turn up they sent someone to fix the phone rather than the broadband. |
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Not Happy | Amesbury | BT | 2020-10-26 | |
I HAD JUST PAID MY BILL, WHEN I GOT THIS : |
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Anthony Johnston | Stratford on Avon | BT | 2020-10-26 | |
Would not recommend this provider - their constant aim is to keep you as a customer - far too many scam callers on my BT land-line when i have NEVER disclosed my land-line number to anyone EVER |
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Terry | Lincoln | BT | 2020-10-25 | |
Terrible on all levels. Had a multiple problem with the service. Unprofessional customer support, after making multiple complains about the broadband I had to book a technician who never showed up. Definitely the worst internet provider I ever had. Would not recommend to my worst enemy |
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michail | BT | 2020-10-24 | ||
Hindsight, they say is a wonderful thing. Had I read the reviews before deciding to try BT I would never have agreed to a contract. At the moment I am two weeks without internet. Thanks to a neighbour I'm using their internet. If possible I would give zero stars to all of the above. I spent over an hour on the phone trying to speak to someone on Wednesday and when I did get through I was told I would be getting a call back on Sunday, that's tomorrow for an update. When I contacted them over two weeks ago about an engineer calling to investigate the problem I was sent a confirmation email from BT but two minutes later a second email was sent telling me that there was a delay so they couldn't give me a time when it would be addressed. I won't say fixed because I can't see that happening. I may just have to cut my losses and ask for a disconnection. I'll probably pay through the nose for it but at least I can try another broadband company. Maybe someone more reliable. I see positive review here but to be honest I think they must be from BT staff either that or someone who is being paid to write imaginary reviews |
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C. Kenneally | London | BT | 2020-10-24 | |
Terrible customer service up to 40 minutes on the phone to get through. Complaints do nothing and got charged for a month that my Internet didn't work. |
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Tris | Scotland | BT | 2020-10-13 | |
I was having problems trying to switch over to BT from virgin (virgin is excellent but a little pricey) Tried to contact customer service and had nothing but hassle. It felt like they were not bothered about me switching to them. It got to the point where I was so frustrated with them that I put the phone down and I will now stick with virgin and not be using BT. They are not worth the hassle. |
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Edd | North east | BT | 2020-10-10 | |
0 is the correct sattisfaction and reliability. I chose BT because of the brand....big mistake. I did the same with Virgin, bouth rubbish network providers in my area. I have 3 childreen and i use internet quite often, even with my CCTV, and dorbell with camera. The internet it is realy not working att all, i have the round hubb what they bragg about but it is only for disighn....not pleased at all and i canceled the contract. I have 40Mb minimum and 18 MB upload in contract but the speed is much less,nothing is not working, fault after fault, youtube is not loading, they talk to talk but dont chose BT...contract for 40£ a month and no good internet?????? What a joke,!!! |
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Bob Costelus Raimondo | CRAYFORD | BT | 2020-10-09 | |
Drops in speed all the time. Zoom calls cut off regularly. In these times of home working we need a more reliable service. When my contract tie in ended they quickly bumped me up to £40 month even though the same package for new subscribers is £26. We are living in tough economic times but BT will still happily rip you off. |
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Kevin McGowan | Ilkley | BT | 2020-10-07 | |
i can score no stars rubbish |
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DARREN | MITCHELL | BT | 2020-10-01 | |
If you're thinking about switching to BT broadband because of the BT reward card incentive then beware. They seem to be making it difficult to claim this, despite them claiming it should appear automatically on your account. |
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Peter | Cambourne | BT | 2020-09-17 | |
I get 73 Mbps download and 18 upload on BT Fibre 2 package. I am lucky being just 120m from the fibre junction box so the copper wire last leg is relatively short. When things go wrong (about once a year - usually the service suddenly slowing down or needing frequent modem reboots) BT support has always been very fast and efficient. If they cannot fix the line remotely, an engineer has always arrived within a couple of days and the latest modem sent by post - all at no extra charge. You don’t often hear this... but I think the BT service is excellent. |
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James | Sevenoaks | BT | 2020-09-14 | |
well well BT i have to constantly contact them. their advert says 1 disc runs the house or 100 pound back. i have 3 discs and they dont work(all this in 2 months )everytime i contact im in chat for over 4 hours they go round in circles and help with nothing |
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elaine | west yorkshire | BT | 2020-09-10 | |
I thought paying top whack prices would equal top whack service,reliability etc - it doesn't - looking at the reviews you are just as likely to experience slow speed patronising unapologetic customer service providers as you are paying half the price of BT - I am swopping to a cheaper provider for what I imagine will be the same poor experience but at least I won't be paying 50 quid a month for it |
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Williams | Watford | BT | 2020-08-31 | |
Such a terrible provider, download speed always fall short of the stated speed (e.g the stated speed was 11-13mb, and I am constantly receiving speed less than 5mb) and the pings are always spiking (varies from 30 to 500). The worst is that the slow wifi plan is even more expensive than some of the optical fibre plan provided by other competitors, I had no other choices as there is no optical fibre in my area. If you have other option BT should be avoided at all cost, extremely terrible. |
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will | London | BT | 2020-08-30 | |
Have recently moved home and simply wanted to move the service across, but this seems to have been an unnecessarily difficult process for BT. Have had multiple orders cancelled for no reason over they last three weeks, which they cannot seem to stop doing. They say they will call back to sort out, but never do, resulting in me having to call them back. Previously the broadband had a tendency to cut out at least twice a day. It takes a good while to get through to any customer service reps, and even when you do, whilst they are pleasant enough they can rarely solve your issues there and then. Don't even think about asking for discounts for inconvenience, because they won't even consider it. Have been a loyal customer for a good while, but enough is enough and it's time to move on. |
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Andres | London | BT | 2020-08-30 | |
Awful awful awful. Two weeks with no internet. Engineer supposedly came - no change. New modem sent. No change. Back at square one after two weeks and now have to wait yet another week for another engineer. Been told I cannot cancel contract unless BT fail to provide a service for 90 days!!! How can that be fair? They can fail to provide internet for three months yet I must still pay. Disgusting. Can't wait to leave... |
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Mandy Kloppers | Surrey | BT | 2020-08-29 | |
Tried joining BT but they cancelled our order for no reason so now we have to wait. Customer service trying to deal with their mistakes was appalling (happy to try and sell you extras but unable to rectify basic problems). Would not go near them. |
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Sam | Bath | BT | 2020-08-28 | |
BT is good . Fast and good internet to my house ! Everything about it is good 100% would recommend to anyone |
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James | York | BT | 2020-08-26 | |
Router broke asked for a new one was told they need to send engineer i was like but its the router they where like muh engineer so engineer comes out and says its your router heres an £85 charge robbing scammers |
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D smith | Manchestrt | BT | 2020-08-24 | |
The worst company by far. Slow WiFi, slow internet, poor customer service. With our plan was included a free TV which never arrived!! When we complained they told us they couldn't do anything!!! And for last but not least we paid BT Sport and it doesn't even include payperview. What can I say? Don't sign with this company, it's a scam, big, big scam. |
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Fedra | Bath | BT | 2020-08-20 | |
Awfully disappointed with the dreadful service. Tried to set up a line for SIX weeks but hindered by a series of BT's mistakes. They only know how to apologise but will not compensate in any way. I do not recommend starting with this unhelpful company. |
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Groff | UK | BT | 2020-08-18 | |
Bt came to transfer our broadband from plusnet, but managed to mess it up and we have now been left with no broadband and no phone for the last fortnight with another fortnight until they will come out again. Where we live we get little if any mobile connection and rely on the broadband for work. Although after an hour trying to rebook a new visit they have behaved very badly making us wait for a month for something they did. |
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John Ellis | whitford,Holywell | BT | 2020-08-17 | |
Our Fibre Optic box shared with other occupiers of our small building in London EC1 was isolated as the probable fault as to why only our office and no one else in the building had no internet. Monday we made contact. It was almost certainly a switch that needed to be pushed at Open Reach's end but they could not do this without a job no. This took 3 days to organise. The engineer then arrived late one afternoon and did his best but could not determine the fault and had to return to another job. It turns out that it ialmost certainly is the OR switch and we hope after over a week without internet , it will soon be fixed. Meanwhile, we installed a Vodaphone 5G system as back up-even if China can allegedly interfere with this! It seems to be performing better that fibre optic so we we may ditch OR. I hate poor service as my busibness would not survive if we gave this so I happy to ditch OR and never depend on them again at the first opportunity-JP |
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Johnnie Petroni | London EC1 | BT | 2020-08-12 | |
Moved into a new build property in July 2020 and as an existing customer signed up for their 'easy' home move system. All communication up to our move date was positive, orders confirmed etc. and 3 weeks notice was given. No internet on the day following move in so contacted the customer service team who said the line could not be activated because of a records issue. This was the company line for 2 weeks (we still were without internet during this time). After two weeks the internet started working but was not at the speeds we were paying for. I called numerous times and spoke to numerous people, each one as clueless as the last and it took these two weeks for BT to acknowledge it was there error and apologise! |
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Jago Cann | Bristol | BT | 2020-08-11 | |
If I could give 0 stars for speed I would. We live in a rural location, HOWEVER across the street from us there is ultra fast broadband. We cannot get access to it because we are on a different exchange 2miles away. This means we get 2mbs while my neighbours enjoy 800mbs. We are all working from home these days and are utterly dependent on good broadband. BT does not care and will not help. I have spoken to them for 4years consistently trying to find a solution. Our jobs are on a knife edge and if we do not get better broadband soon we will have potentially lose our jobs and home. Tell me BT how do I explain to my 7 year old that daddy and mommy longer has jobs because of bad internet. |
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Henri | Crediton | BT | 2020-08-11 | |
Awful service! AVOID ! I was waiting for their engineer for all day which never turned up. At the same time BT bombarded me with warnings that missed appointment will cost me £130! It seems my time does not cost a penny ! To resolve a problem it takes 40 minutes of holding and listening their arrogant music. The problem never gets resolved from the fist attempt. What a shame! If I knew, I'd never sign contract with BT. |
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Elina | London | BT | 2020-08-10 | |
absolutely great wifi speed, with my old provider i was getting less that 1 mb/s and now with BT im getting around 125 mb/s |
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josh | derry | BT | 2020-08-06 | |
Three months no service this year (2020) |
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Mike Little | Faversham UK | BT | 2020-08-05 | |
Don't use BT if you live in central Birmingham. The broadband is terrible. I also had several issues with them when I moved apartments. I moved in the same block and they couldn't fix my connection issues. They made me wait 9 months after which I gave up and ended my service |
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Zeba | Birmingham | BT | 2020-08-01 | |
I made a change of house I took BT, but they started to charge the rest of the old contract, I called and they said it was incorrect, not to worry, 4 months later, I receive a letter from their company of 475 pounds debt recovery, and I'm still a customer. In addition to being incompetents,they are liars. |
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Joao Coentro | Chippenham | BT | 2020-08-01 | |
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