788 Customer Reviews over 20 pages
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2017-10-03
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Really poor customer service - left without service for over a week now.
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2017-02-14
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2015-06-26
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We switched to John Lewis from BT because they had a good offer on broadband and we were tempted by the fact that John Lewis won Which best buy on customer service. Ever since we switched we had nothing but trouble with customer service. The agents themselves are nice and polite over the phone, but things just don't get done. First of all it took over 2 months for a switchover, because despite us sending a mac code on time no one bothered to let us know that it didn't work until I chased them myself. Then we decided to switch from regular to Fibre broadband. Again, over the phone I was told the day the engineer was coming so I cleared the day, until I got an email, saying that the date has been confirmed for the engineer to come out and it was a different date! So that is one day wasted for me. In the meantime I received a couple of emails saying that they regret we decided to move away from John Lewis broadband, which we didn't, so I had to chase those emails up as well and turned out it was just because we were switching between different packages. Then, we finally got our Fibre broadband and all was good until the first month charge notification came through - the deal was that the first three months were free, yet I was being charged full price! Now I ring John Lewis to find out the cost of cancelling the contract, and since the service been so poorly I asked if there was any discount they could give on cancellation fee they said no.
So bottom line - think carefully before you switch to John Lewis. It's been a nightmare for us.
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2013-12-09
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Terrible customer service ordered fibre no engineer turned up wasted a whole day of work no one informed me then changed to adsl with them and my adsl router has not arrived although promised for today. False promises and hopes from the beginning would not recommend at all and now just waiting for my contract to finish john lewis broadand gives the company a bad name. Their staff are rude also!! They have not resolved my issue or even compensated me although i made my complaint over a month ago not worthy of your money at all.
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2019-03-01
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No customer service staff have no upper management for you to escalate any problems Plusnet advertising customer service won't let you down!
DON'T BELIEVE IT
Problems are just repeated 48 hours before update 48 hours for next update 3 weeks still awaiting for it to work!!!!!
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2020-11-20
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2021-01-26
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Absolutely awful!!!! Awful awful. Had the contract 2 months. Have not had speeds of over 0.9mpbs yet!!
AVOID AT ALL COSTS
Trust me. 1 star is too high
Absolutely sick and tired of spending an hour on hold trying to get them to sort it
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2017-10-17
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- Aberdeen
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2018-07-31
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As all the other reviewers my service from them has been appalling, sat on hold at the moment for 30 minutes and they still haven't even answered the call. They owe me over £300 from failing to provide a service and have still not paid... only interested in taking your money .. AVOID!
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- Aberdeen, Scotland
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2019-10-07
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Did not cancel contract on request and continued to charge, is a great hassle to try to recover payments and ensure account is correctly cancelled.
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- Aberdeenshire
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2018-05-22
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Very disappointed with John lewis Broadband and customer support. Cant wait till my contract ends and I can switch. I would absolutely not recommend them.
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- Aberdour
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2017-03-16
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Stay far away from John Lewis broadband! I'm coming to the end of my contract and I will cancel immediately. Connection issues daily. Wasted hours on the phone complaining to no use. This last month I have actually used up my mobile internet allowance because I've had to use it in the house as John Lewis broadband falls out constantly.
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- Abergavenny
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2018-10-09
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I wish I had read these reviews before I made the switch from Sky. I keep receiving emails about “queries” I have never made, nonsensical messages and incorrect information, dates for the switch which are then cancelled and uncancelled in a seven circles of hell vortex which has turned me into a mad woman. I am now without phone and broadband which has been disconnected and appears to be beyond their ability to connect. Hours on the phone to so called customer service and now an inexplicable charge has been taken from my bank account. How could it be worse. John Lewis need to distance themselves from these third party suppliers pronto.
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- Alfreton
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2019-03-18
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- Altrincham
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2017-02-18
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JOHN LEWIS, PLEASE HELP
Please will a senior manager or Director in charge of John Lewis Customer Services read these reviews. The majority of us have similar experience which adds up to a chronically poor service, one that has had me in tears because of an aggressive person in the so-called support service. I cant think of anything to say that is good. At the moment I am without any of my emails and have been told that there is no-one to deal with my issue now as it's after 10 pm - whatever happened to 24/7 - and the backroom tech won't be in until Monday. I love my John Lewis because of the products and service but I am about to leave their broadband service and just hope that someone is listening.
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- Amersham
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2020-08-07
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This has honestly been the most painful customer service experience that I have ever had. I would not use John Lewis Broadband if it were the last company on earth. Initially, they cut off my existing provider but failed to connect my phone and broadband to a new service. We have been without a phone or broadband now for 3 weeks. We have lost our old phone number and I have spent in excess of 20 hours on the phone trying to resolve the issue. This mainly consists of being on hold because no one picks up the phone. So far this morning I have been on hold for 2 hours and 20 minutes and no one has picked up. I did try the new customer option and that was picked up in 1 minute and 15 seconds but a very rude female told me I had chosen the wrong option and transferred me mid sentence - I am currently on hold again and have been for the past 46 minutes. It seems that after the initial call to get your business, there is absolutely no customer service at all. I would rather boiL my eyeballs in acid than have broadband installed by John Lewis.
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- Andover
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2020-12-16
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It's a very frustrating situation, my list of problems seem to be growing (rather than being resolved) and the implication is that perhaps they hope most of their disgruntled customers will give up.
As at 15/12/20 I still haven't had my money back despite a promise it would be "immediately" refunded.
John Lewis Broadband is actually PLUSNET. I have found it to be a terrible service.
The PLUSNET (aka JL Broadband) team seem paralysed by internal chaos, slow management reaction times, denial and an overwhealming lack of service ethos.
Customer services are almost impossible to contact, they assume you are the problem and deny that "you" the customer could have struggled trying to contact them.
I cannot comment on their broadband speeds or router performance because after switching to them, then waiting over a month getting nowhere, I was eventually forced cancelled the service.
When I finally got through and raised my issues by phone. The service rep only wrote that I wanted to cancel the service but did not make any note of 'why' or record my complaint.
I then wrote back with several issues spelt out in a simple numerical list of points. Amazingly the next service representative wrote back, starting with an illiterate paragraph that made absolutely no sense, then they asked me to write explaining what the issues were - clearly not having read my bullet point complaint letter.
I received a further letter saying my case is being looked at. It implied it was impossible not to be able to reach customer services... Problems were due to Covid.... I should have continued waiting/I should have been in touch earlier... i.e. I should understand their problems...!
So in summary, please don't waste your time on JL Broadband or PLUSNET. Read the other complaints, we're all fundamentally saying the same thing; If they don't record the complaints then the stats don't reflect the problems.
NB. John Lewis Partnership please disassociate yourself from PLUSNET. They are wrecking your reputation.
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- Anglesey
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2017-12-04
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My broadband speed since joining John Lewis has dropped off to around 1 MBPS ( 0.45 MBPS at it's lowest) in the evenings, basically un-usable. I keep reporting it, and their Technical team keeps re-setting it, but it simply drops off again within days. I'm being told that they can't cancel my contract, because ( apparently) there isn't a fault on the line. So OFCOM it is then !!!
I've given a one star for broadband speed, overall satisfaction and broadband reliability because I can't give a zero, which is what it deserves. Look elsewhere people !!
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- Anglesey
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2016-12-29
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Broadband has generally been slow, with many more dropped connections than might be expected. The email provision is poor most of the time: for example, attempts at replying to emails received usually result in being taken offline, as is often the case when trying to move emails from one folder to another. At the moment, the provision is very poor to bad: since the 28th November, it has often been unavailable.
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- Argyll
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2018-11-01
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Do not sign up with this company.My poor experience reflects that of others 2 months of waiting with 4 new contracts. Long waits to call customer service. Excuses given and existing provider blamed Money taken immediately at the set up of first contract not returned despite promises. I gained a better deal with my existing provider BT but plus net left a tag on the line causing a two week delay. Stressful from start to finish. I have complained to ofcom suggest other reviewers do the same
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- Ascot
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2020-12-29
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Please do not bother
This is the worse broadband I have ever used. It does not work in the morning or evening drop during the day and the Customer service advice is to disconnect and connect again ( which if you wish to use it need to happen 20 times a day) Please AVOID!I wouldn't pay £1.00 for this service
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- Ashbourne
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2018-09-11
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Having read all the negative reviews of John Lewis Broadband I followed MSE's rating of the service and switched from BT over a month ago. In contrast to all the negative reports published I can confirm that my experience of the switch and the resultant telephone and broadband service has been exemplary. The switch was completed on schedule and the resultant response is as good as (indeed, I am tempted to say better than) that provided by BT. It seems that, in general, consumers only vent their frustrations in public reviews when they have negative experiences. I feel that such views should be tempered by what must be the more prevalent, positive experiences. Thank you to John Lewis for a good service at a good price!
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- Ashbourne
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2016-02-16
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AVOID AVOID AVOID!!!!!!!!
If you wish to experience abject misery, hours of water boarding like oppression, waiting and having to listen to appalling, oppressive music for hours on end and then EVENTUALLY having to listen to what amounts to is a pack of lies, and then after all this you do not get what you signed up for in the beginning...............
SIGN UP TO JOWN LEWIS BROADBAND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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- Ashford
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2020-09-03
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I swapped to John Lewis broadband because I (mistakenly) believed it to be the same quality as everything else about John Lewis... how wrong can you be!
Had no issue with changeover (other than router arriving only the afternoon before changeover date, which had me fretting). Since then two major problems appeared:
1- speed has dropped, even though ping tests indicate about 35-37Mps. iPlayer sometimes hangs, which it didn't with the previous supplier (SSE).
2- they don't want to take the DD payment, even though there's plenty of money in the account. Each month I try paying on line - it doesn't work (can't access the payment area) so I have co call and pay by card.
The people on the phone are great, but the rest of it is utter rubbish.
Pity. John Lewis has such a great reputation as well.
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- Ashford Hill
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2019-03-20
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In short, don't use them.
Our phone line and internet were cut off for over a week. After an engineer could not find a fault at the exchange, they sent an engineer to the house without an appointment. No one was in, and then they told us they could not send another for 4 days. When the engineer did come (after a week), it turned out that the fault was at the exchange all along and the first engineer had missed it.
Customer service was poor, giving different excuses for not sending an engineer, and it was impossible to elevate the complaint.
When the line is working, we only get download speeds of max 2mbs, but this regularly (every couple of days at the moment) gets dropped down to 0.2mbs. When we call, the speed goes back to normal, so BT must be choking the speed.
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- Ashford Kent
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2017-02-10
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On waiting just over 11 days for john lewis to activated my service's and reading all commits on here i was a little surprised to say that i've found jl broadband supplied by plusnet being fine but to mention slightly slower as i'm using jl broadband as domestic use, i do have plusnet for work use else where in my local town, but it was suggested to use jl broadband service, if your using standard 300Mbps the sagem router works fine, the setting are easy to understand & if you prefer the max wifi speed on your tablet ipad etc then 300Mbps will do you fine, the setting is there to go lower if you require it. The customer service is plusnet guys but hey its just like when i used to use sky broadband i found them rude etc, it just every one's personal experience really. this service provider of jl suits our home use kindly and seems to allow the kinds to use the games box online fine so win win, thanks john-lewis broadband keep the good work up.
Kind regards
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- Ashill, Thetford
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2021-06-04
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Dire. Never achieved advertised speeds despite an hour jumping through many hops with rechnical support. Then accused me of not helping! No cost reduction offered - instead a far slower service!
Took a while to acknowledge my cancellation and still billed after leaving - threatening debt collection agencies.
How the good name of John Lewis can be associated with this is beyond me!
AVOID AT ALL COSTS!!
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- Ashington
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2020-05-26
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How this company has a license to even advertise broadband is beyond me .
When I first set up my connection well in advance they couldn't even get that right. After being lied to numerous times telling me I am connected which was simply not true. When calling the so called customer services to find out why my connection hadn't happened I was just palmed of with a load of jargon of technical rubbish. Also without being rude or shouting they will just simply hang up on you when they can't give you a reasonable answer.
Thankfully out of contract with them and never to return. I would advise anyone looking for a reputable Broadband supplier never sign up with John Lewis.
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- Auchtermuchty
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2017-08-22
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big mistake moving from BT to John Lewis. We are rural so do not get good speeds but was told by JL that we would get same speed as our BT service (3.8Mb). In fact we have never got more than 2.9Mb in the more than 8 months since the changeover. All John Lewis customer service said is to take it up with BT myself. WE also now have drop-outs vitually every day and sometimes multiple times in one day. We certainly won't be staying once the contract expires.
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- Aylesbury
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2022-05-02
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I cancelled my broadband because I was moving house, they informed me that I could send an email to give them the date and it would be cancelled or I could do it online. At the time I could get online as it seemed to be down. So I sent emails to tell them which day I was moving house. Since then they have harassed me with several demands for £72 which I do not owe and they insist I do. I can prove I moved house as I have travel details abroad and it shows I didn't even live in the house at the time of the invoice. However, it is impossible to contact and 0800 number from Europe and they do not respond to my emails and simply just keep sending the same demand. I have contacted their complaints and await a response. I would stay away from them, this is not John Lewis at it's best it is a cheap unworthy internet service provider that sends out knee-jerk money demands with no sense of customers being real people, just money machines.
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- BALA
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2017-05-07
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CONSISTENTLY GETTING SLOWER AND SLOWER, FOR EVER LOSING CONNECTION, REALLY HAS TO BE THE SLOWEST I HAVE HAD SINCE DIAL UP. REALLY DISAPPOINTED WITH THIS PROVIDER, BE GLAD WHEN THE CONTRACT IS UP,
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- bala
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2017-03-04
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Not a great start to switch to john lewis, they still have not despatched my router and it has gone a day past switch over time, credit to customer care for trying to use my existing router , but it seems this was locked by bt, so in effect could not be used, so now i will be left with no internet for who knows how many days ???, running a internet based business this could be disastrous for my new business,
so really not one bit happy,
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- bala
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2018-09-18
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broadband it low and often drops, for a rural area like this, it is passable,
customer service on the other hand is just not up to the job, JL snt me an email telling me there were problems with their system and they could not collect my direct debit on time, and they would inform me when they would collect it, they sent me an email saying it will be collected on or after the 13th, so they decided to collect it on the 12th, funds were placed in my bank on the 12th to cover the direct debit on the 13th, needless to say my once perfect record with my bank has now gone, I will be charged for their incompetence, and all they do is ignore my emails, on top of this they are saying now because I have not paid my account will be restricted, and would you believe their online payment through your account has been down for days, so even though I am trying to pay, I can't, needless to say I will be taking my custom elsewhere,
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- BALA
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2017-03-05
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WELL THIS IS THE QUICKEST I HAVE EVER COME BACK TO LEAVE A REVIEW, AFTER MY LAST REVIEW, MY ROUTER CAME NEXT DAY SO AFTER COMPLAINING THEY CLEARLY MADE A HUGE EFFORT TO GET THE ROUTER TO ME. SO 5 STARS FOR THAT, IT WOULD NOT CONNECT , SO I PHONED CUSTOMER SERVICE, AND I HAVE TO SAY THEY WERE EXCELLENT AND HAD ME UP AND RUNNING IN MINUTES , SO 5 STARS FOR THAT ALSO, IT'S RUNNING AT ABOUT THE SAME SPEED AS MY PREVIOUS BT ACCOUNT, BUT SO FAR IT HAS NOT KEPT DROPPING OUT LIKE MY BT DID, BUT WE WILL SEE WHAT TIME BRINGS , SO OVER ALL, SO FAR ANY WAY, EXCEPT FOR THE BAD START TO MY CONTRACT, THEY HAVE ACTUALLY COME UP TRUMPS,
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- Banffshire
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2020-01-09
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BT was a hideous corporate brute. I got very slow speed and frequent problems. John Lewis has been utterly superb. There were a few glitches after I switched, but these were soon sorted. My ISP is owned by bt and I think this is important. My payment is massively reduced and my typical speed is almost double that which I got with bt. Substantial negative causal (re my time with bt) was switching router off at night. I would never switch from John Lewis.
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- BARNET
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2017-07-31
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Very unreliable service ,keeps disconnecting.
Have had no connection on our smart television nor pc after the first two months !!!
Into the six month and have lost broadband ,we cannot watch/stream a movie without it breaking off.
We cannot wait for the contract to end and go back to previous contractor.
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- Barnstaple
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2017-05-16
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John Lewis is great at what they do. If you call them you get a real person speaking english, they are helpful. The problem is the service is via plusnet using BT. If your speed is slow then it would be no better with another supplier. what you get is cheaper service and great customer service. If BT sorted out the issues with the cables then most of these reviews would be better.
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- Bath
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2021-05-16
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Avoid. Avoid. Avoid. Firstly, they messed up processing my order which meant I incurred increased charges from my old provider. Secondly, they never actually flipped my broadband 'on' when they were supposed to. Now it seems that they can't even disconnect my service after I moved to a new supplier because they put their prices up. An utter shambles from the beginning to the... well I was going to say 'end', but apparently they still think they're providing my broadband.
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- Bath
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2018-12-11
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- Bath
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2020-01-29
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If you’re expecting the level of customer service usually associated with John Lewis, think again. The brand reputation was one of the deciding factors in choosing this broadband service but it has been atrocious so far. Encourage you to look elsewhere unless you’re happy to wait forever and experience many bumps in the road which should not even be a consideration.
Come on John Lewis, there are many, many 1 star reviews on here, suggests there’s an issue. Please don’t destroy your lovely brand.
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