806 Customer Reviews over 21 pages
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- suffolk
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2018-08-13
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I wish I had checked the reviews before signing up, I foolishly went on the name. the service is appalling I finally got my broadband after 6 days of phoning and being on hold, two open reach visits which never happened and they have offered to refund the weeks broadband I didnt have as a gesture of goodwill, beyond amusing AVOID AT ALL COSTS.
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- Lymington, Hampshire
- Reviewing
- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2018-08-13
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3 days shy of a month and zero service or any contact. No letter, no router, no response to 4 online queries. I’ve cancelled my direct debit and wished them luck pursuing me based on their egregious failure to provide any form of service whatsoever. STAY AWAY (it’s run by Plusnet but they were bought out by BT when they got too successful, that’s what BT do then run them into the ground. It’s clever).
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- Surrey
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2018-08-11
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- Nottingham
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- John Lewis Broadband
- Date
- 2018-08-10
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If the service is bad, just wait until you try and close your account. Despite a letter confirming I was out of contract, I was billed a cancellation charge. After protesting this was reversed, only for me to be billed again for ongoing service, and their email to me does not accept replies. Told to use their QUERY facility which just goes round in circles. More than glad I'm leaving.
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- Surrey
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- John Lewis Broadband
- Date
- 2018-08-10
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This internet service provider may say John Lewis, But it is not a John Lewis Brand at all. In fact, the internet is provided by Plus net.
I was with JL Broadband for a year. At the beginning I bought the regular broadband package. The minimum guaranteed speed was about 8mb. I was receiving 1.2mb. They failed to fix this issue.
My only option was to go to Fibre with a minimum guaranteed speed of about 25mb I got about 14mb. After weeks of complaints It finally got resolved, however for the rest of the year I was constantly raising complaints both online and on the phone.
They don't like answering queries and they haven't a clue on the phone. They are very rude in fact and talk to you like a piece of garbage.
My router brand was ZyXEL. I know, I know: 'Who'
It was awful. Signal collapsed daily, needed reseting regularly. By the way. That takes 10 - 15 minutes simply to reboot.
When I finally reached a year I left. But my troubles continued. As they don't like answering queries from customers, they don't communicate with each other in house either. My service was disconnected, however they continued to charge me and even threatened me with Debt Collectors. It was clear as mud on my bills and history. Service cancelled, please finalise account. Ignored in house.
Overal
If you would like internet that you may or may not receive, have problems constantly, have emails and query go un-answered leading to frustration and anger. Then John Lewis Broadband is for you!
If you want an easier provider that are cheaper and better. Go elsewhere.
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- Lymington, Hampshire
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- John Lewis Broadband
- Date
- 2018-08-07
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This is truly dire customer service. I have obviously made a huge mistake choosing John Lewis Broadband. 16 working days now (22 filull days!) and no phone or broadband/router. Not even a response to my request for information. I wish I’d cancelled within the 14 days. So disappointing.
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- Aberdeen
- Reviewing
- John Lewis Broadband
- Date
- 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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- Central London
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- John Lewis Broadband
- Date
- 2018-07-31
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AVOID John Lewis Broadband at ALL costs.
Their service is absolutely appalling. I signed up with them 6 weeks ago - still not even a router that works! They are the worst provider I've ever had. GO ELSEWHERE IF YOU WANT GOOD, EFFICIENT SERVICE
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- Coalville
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- John Lewis Broadband
- Date
- 2018-07-28
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Worst provider I have ever had. Cant wait for my contract to end.Super slow speed, frequent crashes and all I get from customer service is "speed as advertised".Add one more device and everything is even worse. Would never recommend.
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- Sudbury suffolk
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- John Lewis Broadband
- Date
- 2018-07-28
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I've been with John Lewis B/B for over 10 years. There service has seriously deteriorated. I am now without internet and email.I can no longer get into any of my accounts due to an Authentication problem they are having. Two new routers in ladt three weeks. Non of my passwords work. They have changed them twice without my permission. Not notified me of change so again I have no service at all. Open reach called out twice. They say it's being dealt by there fault team and will take sometime to resolve. Apparently many customers are affected including those with greenbee usernames. No one knows what they are doing support is disgraceful I am relieved that I am going over to a new supplier next week. Dont touch them
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- Manchester
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- John Lewis Broadband
- Date
- 2018-07-27
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Truly shocking customer service; lack of consistency when dealing with complaints; can’t get hold of manager; issues with my DD which they still haven’t resolved 4 months later!
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- Devon
- Reviewing
- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2018-07-21
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Simply dreadful on all fronts. Lower speed. No service. Terrible set up. Terrible customer service. A complete joke. Bt cost more but at least it worked.
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- Kent
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- John Lewis Broadband
- Date
- 2018-07-15
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I went for John Lewis because of their reputed customer service. Unfortunately, a lot of them have very strong accents which I can't understand. Although it is relatively easy to get through to them (MILES better than BT or TalkTalk), the broadband speed is really poor. I cannot stream films on wi-fi so the TV has to be wired up to the router. Quite often, the speed is so slow that even that doesn't work, even though I'm in a city, not deep in the countryside. On their advice, I've changed channels but nothing really helps. Not impressed but now tied into the contract for a year, unfortunately.
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- Manchester
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2018-07-11
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I've been with various different broadband companies over the years, with mixed results, but John Lewis Broadband, and by extension Plusnet, the actaul provider, are without a doubt the worst provider I have ever seen.The speed is incredibly unreliable, constantly fluctuating an average of 5mbps to 0.2mbps in the space of minutes, having short periods of stability followed by days or weeks of abysmal service. Customer service is about as reliable as the network itself; it can take several days to get support, and when you do they always say the same thing about resetting things on their end, only for service to continue as normal... which is to say awful. I'm lucky enough to be the only member of my household who has managed to get a wired connection to my PC, and although that can reach decent speeds it will drop on a whim, and plans of gaming with friends can quickly devolve into disappointing night spent unable to connect to anything. The upoad speeds are so bad that attempting to upload anything, even small files like oictures and even long messages can cripple the entire service for several minutes. When trying to upload larger files the entire service is unuseable as it send your important files 1kb at a time; I almost failed an important university module when it took 6 hours to upload half of a 1.5gb file before the service cut out completely and it had to start again. Whether you want this service for work, school or leisure I can whole-heartedly reccomend you look elsewhere and forget that John lewis even supplies broadband... God knows they don't seem to remember themselves.
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- goole
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- John Lewis Broadband
- Date
- 2018-06-30
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Really dreadful. Worse than I expected.
The line was "mis-jumpered" in the cabinet, despite JL / Plusnet telling me all was OK. I had to risk £65 for an Openreach engineer to visit and sort it out.
JL promised me 2 months free service for the trouble, but didn't credit me.
My home phones don't ring when someone calls. Waiting for Openreach again, as a "line card" is faulty in the exchange.
Phoning JL customer service takes you to an Asian call centre, located in Leeds. Aggressive, awkward and unhelpful.
Go to another provider. Any other. Don't buy JL.
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- Whitehaven
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2018-06-19
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It was cheap for the first 12 months. The switch to them was smoothish ( though my old provider alleged they weren't informed by them which caused a billing problem. ) Speed has been as promised. Issue has been periods of intermitent cutting out. Not brilliant but for the price of the 12 month introductory contract I would recommend if on tight budget.
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- Sevenoaks
- Reviewing
- John Lewis Broadband
- Date
- 2018-06-17
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Decided to sign up with John Lewis and was given details of their Email service the rest to follow later. Attempted to set up the Email on the Mac Email client. Despite all the settings being correct according to information provided, it just wouldnt work. Have never had such a fruitless fight with an email service. Took this as an indicator of the rest of JL broadband so ditched them.
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- Nottingham
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2018-06-05
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Broadband was okay sometimes slow at odd times during the day. The worst part of my experience with John Lewis broadband was the set up and termination. The setup took over a month!! They would book someone in to set up the broadband and then this would be cancelled a few days later and prosponed to the following week. This happened twice! It was so inconvenient as they gave very little notice to the cancellation (I booked days off work as I had to be home for the setup. When they cancelled I lost out on holiday!!!! Very frustrating) The broadband was okay once up and running but sometimes it could be slow during random times of the day/ evening for no reason. The worst experience I had with them was when I tried to terminate my contract. I had left the country and was not able to make phone calls so I sent a message through the portal. The response I received was unhelpful to say the least... I don’t even think they had read the message I had sent! When I call up instead however, they were rude and uncooperative. I was expecting to be charged as I was leaving early but the service I received was some of the worst customer service I have ever experienced. I will never choose this provider again!!!!
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- North east
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- John Lewis Broadband
- Date
- 2018-06-04
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Ordered the fibre then read some pretty negative reviews so was very anxious. Switch over day arrived and I called customer services once. They had to turn something on at their end that should have been done and all worked fine. 5 minute call in total. 3 weeks in we've had no problems.
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- Marchwood
- Reviewing
- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2018-05-30
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Have had John Jewis Broadband for 1 year and 5 months now. first 6 months speed and reliability were fine, after that it started disconnecting alot, speed was awful. I have called numerous times to customer service, I am being told always everything is fine. past couple of months has been slightly better but it's been absolutely awful last week. I have saved all my speed tests since, even at 1am, the download speed is under 1mbps. nothing has changed at the property, we have already changed 1 router from you, so you tell me what's next. definitely a problem at your end.
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- Leyland
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2018-05-29
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I Chose John Lewis Because I knew i would get decent customer service .There is no way i would do BT,Virgin or Talktalk after trying to get through to their customer services ,1 hour on hold , a light hearted conversation with a robot which quickly escalates into a serious argument ,with a robot ,because after a brief interrogation it wil not accept my mothers aunties grandmas middle name .Whoa betide you customer services when i finally speak to a human.
Anyway had a slight problem on activation day ,ran customer service ,Pressed one button and "Bingo " A Human Vice ,
Thank you for treating me like a customer
PS> Broandband is decent too.
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- Kent
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2018-05-28
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Worse broadband I have ever had. When I joined John Lewis broadband I upgraded to fibre optic thinking this would make it quicker but it was slower than I've had for years and the service was intermittent (daily crashes). I would have called for technical support but was advised I have to go through a long complicated process trying to get it fixed myself before calling - I'm not too bad with technical things but I couldn't follow the directions. I have now moved to BT and have fast reliable broadband but John Lewis keep sending me bills! Only on leaving did I find out that John Lewis broadband is Plusnet. I would recommend avoiding at all cost - unless you don't actually need working broadband and you're happy to continue being billed after you leave them!
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- UK
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2018-05-28
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i had previous issues with the quality of the line speed and technical support last year but managed to get over that episode eventually.
i am now back to un-usable download speeds of under 1mbps so there's no point in using the service any more.
John Lewis wont answer the phones and are taking 3-4 days per message to get back to me so i am reduced to tethering my mobile phone to my laptop in order to get a half decent signal.
i thought i would get a superior level of service with this company but it's been quite the opposite.
switching back to virgin
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- Bristol
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2018-05-27
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I wouldn’t recommend this service constant connection problems very unreliable connection when streaming videos. Customer service staff seem clueless! I was with BT before I joined in August 2017 which was good but more expensive. However I regret leaving and will not be renewing my contract I also can’t wait to leave.
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- Worcester
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2018-05-23
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Changed from BT after too many drop offs and slow speeds and have been extremely pleased. After a slight hiccup on speed customer services were extremely helpful and no problems since.
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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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- Macclesfield
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2018-05-19
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Absolutely awful. Since November I've had to call them a couple of times a month, now evey week almost. The internet goes down daily. We've had a router change and two engineer visits, no communication on the problem other than 'It's fixed'when it clearly isn't. The worst service and product. Highly frustrating especially when I work from home once a week. The tech centre know as much about it as I do (very little). Wer3 changing providers asap
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- Salisbury
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2018-05-16
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A disaster! Customer support very pleasant and knowledgeable but it appears the router has packed in after a month. Unstable connection, dial-up-slow speed internet. Totally unusable.
Avoid.
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- Cumbria
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2018-05-14
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Absolute CRAP - “we have monitored your cinnection and everything is OK...” Then why can we not have a consistent connection! We are “off-line” most days now - John Lewis we expect better from you... This is the worst internet provider on the planet. The sooner my Contract is up the better.
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- Slough
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2018-05-13
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I have been a John Lewis broadband customer for 3 months now and have already started thinking to quit. Problem started since the the order of the service where it took 14 days to activate the service. Since then there is no ending of the problems with the internet speed. I have 17Mbps plan and have been living with the speed from 0Mbps to 5 Mbps with continuously erratic speed of internet. Raised complaint and called customer care multiple times but the issue remains same. Reaching out the customer care service is a pain. There are different teams/departments within John Lewis who seems to be totally disconnected. One agent does not have any idea what has been done by other. When called the customer service and discussed the speed issue, first of all the agent was not at all agreed that there is a problem with the internet speed. After a while, after talking over the phone and troubleshooting, finally they agreed that there is a fault from there side. Since, then the speed seems to be erratic and inconsistent. I am loosing the hope now and thinking to come out of the contract based on the pathetic product and customer service i have received so far. A huge disappointment on the product provided by the brand name like John Lewis.
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- Warwick
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2018-05-09
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Phone switched on the planned day. Broadband took a further 7 days to connect, leaving us without internet for a full week. Daily calls to customer service were promptly answered, but staff were unable to provide convincing status updates or expedite resolution. After being past from department to department for a week, someone eventually spotted that the service hadn't been 'automatically' activated as it should have been. Now running service is Ok.
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- Devon
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2018-05-08
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It appears time travel is possible. Having been with John Lewis for less than a month it appears that I have travelled back to 1989, today the ever loyal call handler suggested that 4Mbps was actually only possible with a wired connection!! If only I had not assumed that all broadband providers were the same, if only I had realised that the John Lewis name does not attach the same quality in all situations, if only I had realised that life is too short to worry about rubbish broadband!! Please think carefully before signing up to this shambolic company!!!
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- Devon
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2018-05-01
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Fast & cheap!
I get a solid 20Mbs all day every day - no need to pay extra for fibre.
Customer services are excellent. It's provided by Plusnet, who are owned by BT.
Plusnet has got a good web forum where the staff moderators are v helpful.
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- Ilford
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2018-04-29
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The router is really really bad. I get a strong signal from my old router which is on the opposite side of the house than when i'm in the same room.
When I spoke to customer services, the guy kept blaming it on radio waves and channels even though i explained that I'd tried multiple channels. Eventually he agreed the router was very basic and that I should buy my own router if I wanted better signal.
His tone was very unsympathetic, and condescending. He tried to blame things outside of John Lewis' control which was very irritating as it wasn't true.
Anyway, the router has died - didn't even last 4 months. But they will be sending me the same old rubbish router.
No way will I be staying with JL
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- London
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2018-04-29
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The line has not changed since I switched from BT. The issue was and maybe for a lot of people dissatisfied with the service, the cheap router provided. It's single band, unable to do 5GHz, means that it is reliant on a very congested set of channels. This is particularly problematic in built up areas. If you're having issues, then try a WiFi analyser and see the quality of the channels in your area. My dropping off of connections and the irractic speed were solved by investing in a modern mesh router. I am now getting the same speeds I got with BT. The BT home device is a top end router and you will suffer changing to a budget router. The cost of my new router has definitely dented the savings I got from switching from BT.
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- Brekshire
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2018-04-28
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First day of use absolute disaster. Automatic set up didn’t work and told to use Android phone or windows. We do not have either of these using iPhone and Apple software. Was told to download Firefox that didn’t work either. Have cancelled and will return to BT. JL has promised our deposit back. Watch this space
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- London, Greenwich
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2018-04-27
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I have never received worse service from a broadband provider. Never go with John Lewis again.
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- Yorkshire
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2018-04-27
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I have decided to complete this review as all the others were bad about this service; probably because of with a service like this why do a review if its good.
So yeah I ordered easily online, they switched my line over from BT (which I was glad about since I didn't have to call them to cancel) it was just get home switch the router and I was back online!
The online portal is good and even shows you your usage. I did have to call Customer Service and had no problems. I hadn't received an activated email but they did it for me and a simple refresh and it was all there.
I give it 5 stars for speed. My speed isn't actually good by todays standards (4mbps) but its what my line can do so I guess 5 stars for giving me the max speed that my line can do. *Fingers crossed for fiber*
The router has no AC capabilities which is a shame and is essentially a Plusnet Hub One with only the Sagemcomn branding on it.
I am on the Normal Broadband as there is no fibre by the way.
Anyways works fine and have no problems!
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- Stamdfor Lincolnshire
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2018-04-27
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John Lewis Customer Service????? Clearly this doesn't apply to their Broadband. I had a problem with my Broadband Service continually dropping the connection (this is after being with JL for 3 Months). I informed technical help that it was a Router Issue. I was told I needed to agree to an Engineers Visit at £65.00, this I reluctantly did. Engineer arrived checked line etc and told me it was a Router problem. A new Router was sent to me. I have now been presented with a bill for the Engineer's visit despite being continually reassured that this would not happen. I rang today to be told you have to pay for the visit and we will credit the charge back to your account. #2monthsbeforeican leavethesecowboys
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- Cumbria
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2018-04-19
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I have been a very loyal John Lewis customer for decades so when we moved into a new house three years ago I signed up with JL phone & broadband. The basic broadband was ok but not brilliant so in January this year I changed to fibre broadband. Regular dropouts, slow, hours on the phone, going through pointless routines. OpenReach sent out to have a look - engineer said there was no problem with the supply but that the suppliers systems seemed to repeatedly flip out the username & password in the router back to factory settings. Frontline people on the helpline can only follow a script, which refers only to an immediate issue. When I asked to speak to a manager he said he wasn’t technical so couldn’t discuss the problem. In fact he said as far as they were concerned there was no problem. All deeply frustrating. I am in the process of changing to Zen - and John Lewis are trying to slap a cancellation charge of around £100 on me for withdrawing from the contract. Unbelievable. I have taken legal advice from Which Legal to challenge this. What a thoroughly inept and unprofessional shower.
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