806 Customer Reviews over 21 pages
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- Location
- Nottinghamshire
- Reviewing
- John Lewis Broadband
- Date
- 2016-09-01
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Broadband speed is ok and generally it's reliable. Real issue is the email service. It's hit and miss as to whether it connects at all remotely - quite often times out (as it has just now). If you get in, it crashes time and again, so sending emails remotely means typing them in Word and copying and pasting, often repeatedly. Most recently, we weren't able to log in at all. Customer service couldn't tell us what was wrong as it was working at their end. Said would get back within 48 hours (!). Didn't. On chasing, my husband spoke with a very arrogant guy who came up with an unconvincing reason as to why it had happened but fixed the problem remotely - but not on the home pc! He claimed it was a Microsoft problem and "Waitrose" couldn't help. My husband (who knows little about IT) made a suggestion about adjusting the Waitrose setting. The guy dismissed it out of hand. End of call. My husband did what he'd suggested and it worked. Totally unacceptable to be without core email for two days and then not have a competent IT support service.
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- Location
- Notts
- Reviewing
- John Lewis Broadband
- Date
- 2018-09-26
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We've been with John Lewis for less than a month (having been with Sky and BT for over 5 years before that) and the reliability of the broadbankd is poor low. We had no issues with the wifi with Sky or BT but have had issues since joining John Lewis to the extent we have not been able to watch anything properly online since joining them.
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- Location
- Oakham
- Reviewing
- John Lewis Broadband
- Date
- 2023-04-01
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Such poor service. Third time I've attempted to close this service and I'm receiving messages about how I must pay them.
John Lewis service is basically plus net. John Lewis broadband is closing down, but they still attempt to make me pay.
Terrible service.
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- Location
- Orkney
- Reviewing
- John Lewis Broadband
- Date
- 2021-11-08
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For some time now I've not been able to access my account online. I was told that it was a software fault and that they are trying to fix it, but didn't know when access to my account would be available. Not good enough!
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- Location
- Orpington
- Reviewing
- John Lewis Broadband
- Date
- 2022-09-08
- Comments
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Despite telling customer services that I needed to terminate the service they continued to take payments. They now deny that I contacted them and in my view have stolen a number of months of money. I will never use them again and would not encourage anyone else to use them.
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- Location
- Oswestry
- Reviewing
- John Lewis Broadband
- Date
- 2017-07-10
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- Location
- Otley
- Reviewing
- John Lewis Broadband
- Date
- 2015-12-17
- Comments
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repeated internet problems sold a router that was not required had to pay to get an engineer in 30 minute waits on the phone. Terrible iSP
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- Location
- Ottery st Mary
- Reviewing
- John Lewis Broadband
- Date
- 2018-09-24
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John Lewis says it cannot take payment from my direct debit from which they have been taking payment for ages! My bank confirms that the direct debit is active and that there are no problems on my account. John Lewis say “ pay within 14 days or else!” They will not accept an email from me and whe I finally got through on the phone after 15 minutes of music the said they would take paynent over the phone. But when they tried they said that they can’t because nothing is owing! Offered to transfer me to accounts, but there was a 25 minutes waiting time! Service? Here is an IT service that can’t even sort themselves out. They know that I will have to put up with it because I don’ want to change my email address.
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- Location
- OX394DP
- Reviewing
- John Lewis Broadband
- Date
- 2019-11-19
- Comments
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What has gone wrong at JL broadband. I have had a @waitrose.com account for a number of years without too many problems and whatever problems were encountered were usually solved at the time by the whoever took the call. I was not receiving e-mails due to my Inbox being full. I have had four phone calls to JL but it transpires only a trained technician can resolve this. I was originally told it would take two to three days before they could look at the situation and now on the forth day I am told it will be five days. Just how much have JL cut back. How many complaints must they have when it takes 5 days to look at let alone solve a problem This is not the service we axpect or pay for from John Lewis. Cut back on customer service and you cut back on customers.
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- Location
- Oxford
- Reviewing
- John Lewis Broadband
- Date
- 2020-01-08
- Comments
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One star is exactly one star too many for this absolutely inadequate, good for nothing, unprofessional "broadband" provider. John Lewis may be a very good department store but they should not be selling broadband and internet services, as they do not have a slightest clue what they are doing. Their own online bill payment system has not been working since September 2019. They cannot put their own house in order, how can one expect them to provide a broadband service, the word, which many or whose, who answer the phone cannot even spell. Extremely poor. absolutely rubbish customer support, non existent service, dial-up speeds on their so called "fibre broadband." Avoid at any cost, as you would a deadly disease. Shame on John Lewis!
- Location
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- Location
- Oxford
- Reviewing
- John Lewis Broadband
- Date
- 2019-10-05
- Comments
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Only sign up to JL Broadband if you feel nostalgic for the dial-up internet of early 1990s. It is dead slow, and their own website has not been working for the past five days. And they have audacity demanding the payment. How are they expecting payments if their own website, where you are supposed to make a payment does not work. Pathetic! They may be good as a department store but absolutely rubbish handling broadband.
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- Location
- Oxford
- Reviewing
- John Lewis Broadband
- Date
- 2015-09-05
- Comments
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Dire customer service. Impossible to get through on the phone. Try emailing and they say phone. No complaint option. Will ruin the great John Lewis name.
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- Location
- oxford
- Reviewing
- John Lewis Broadband
- Date
- 2020-10-02
- Comments
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their 66 mbs avarage broadband gives med 1.5 download and 0.5 upload as a average score of several readings
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- Location
- Oxford
- Reviewing
- John Lewis Broadband
- Date
- 2017-02-02
- Comments
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Very very slow to set up broadband service. Given excuse that they were very busy at the time. If you are looking for a quick set up, then avoid John Lewis Broadband.
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- Location
- Oxford
- Reviewing
- John Lewis Broadband
- Date
- 2020-04-04
- Comments
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The gorilla at the London Zoo probably knows much more about what broadband is that the clowns calling themselves John Lewis Broadband team. I have given one star as this website does not let you to leave a review without given a star rating. One star is one too many for these loosers. No customer service, no broadband, their own website does not work for bill payments. It has not been working since September 2019. Emails complaints, phone calls do not help. They just do not care because they are not intelligent enough to understand and resolve their own issues. They should be banned from calling themselver a "broadband provider" for life. John Lewis may be a good department store but they neew to put their own house in order and get rid of the so called "broadband team." They could at least start by reading reviews online.
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- Location
- Oxford
- Reviewing
- John Lewis Broadband
- Date
- 2016-10-16
- Comments
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Pathetic Broadband service, JL is not providing Parental control, it has mentioned in the web site but actually not comes with it. Very disappointing, Customer services/Technical support also did not know the parental control is available, waist few phone calls, (long calls) then found out its not comes with the package, Got kids home, now we are stuck to service for one year, cannot even cancel it.
Signup month ago, when receive the service it took more than three weeks. only found out about parental control after received the service, but still too late to cancel as customer services.
Call wait time is more than 20-30 minutes any time during the day.
I think JL is the only ISP who is not provide Parental Control
Very very disappointed.
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- Location
- Oxfordshire
- Reviewing
- John Lewis Broadband
- Date
- 2020-07-07
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I changed to JL broadband after daytime connectivity issues with my previous supplier during lockdown. JL broadband is, if anything, worse than my previous connectivity and is problematic not only during the day but in the evenings too. Furthermore, one of the features offered by JL at sign up was a JL gift voucher, which has not materialised after two months since signing up with them.
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- Location
- Oxfordshire
- Reviewing
- John Lewis Broadband
- Date
- 2021-05-15
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I have never got the speed which is shown as the minimum. When they send someone out to look at issues no one ever seems to come. The customer services are closed more than they are open despite a 24/7 service stated on support pages.
Just go somewhere else!
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- Location
- Oxfordshire
- Reviewing
- John Lewis Broadband
- Date
- 2018-11-27
- Comments
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DO NOT GO NEAR THIS. Absolutely appalling. Took money out of my account upon ordering their broadband and then didn't hear from them again. Contacted them and was told there had been a 'system error' so had not been ordered. 2 weeks now without broadband.
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- Location
- Oxfordshire
- Reviewing
- John Lewis Broadband
- Date
- 2016-03-04
- Comments
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Maybe we all have something in common? Complete deception. I left BT at the point of going to the ombudsman Until bt finally admitted liability. As I was moving house I vowed never to use BT again. I therefore switched to JL and because I have trusted the JL brand for some 40 years I felt no need to read the small print - JL customer service, pricing and guarantees have always been first class. Yet JL broadband has let me down big time. Moreover my broadband stopped working completely when I refused to except the measly compensation being offered by BT for my last contract. Turns out BT owns 80% of Plusnet which operates 100% of JL broadband. I have encountered dishonesty both at BT and Plusnet masquerading as JL. nEver ar JL. JL needs to compensates us if JL Broadband won't . Finally it seems likely that BT and Plusnet have a blacklist for what they perceive as difficult customers. It would not surprise me if they could cut off broadband connection out of spite so that as is happening to me now, I am forced to consider going back to BT and paying £175 of breakage costs for a contract for a service that has been shockingly useless.
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- Location
- Pembrokeshire
- Reviewing
- John Lewis Broadband
- Date
- 2020-04-26
- Comments
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AVOID AT ALL COSTS!! It is Plusnet in disguise!
We chose John Lewis Broadband as I have many insurance policies etc with them and they have always had amazing customer service. We moved to a new property just before lockdown in the UK and it did not have WiFi (we work from home). Knowing there would be a long wait for broadband, we were surprised to find no notice of restrictions etc to set up on the website and so paid the £85.99 to install everything.
For a week I was then bombarded with phonecalls from Plusnet who had an aggressive sales manner- one stating I was "foolish" to go with John Lewis and not Plusnet as they would be cheaper. On the third call I specifically asked not to be contacted again and still had calls from mobiles of their sales team!
A week later I still had no confirmation email or slot for delivery etc. I was shocked when I called up that it was Plusnet I was dealing with not John Lewis. After being on the phone for an hour, a rather rude assistant said that they were definitely coming out the following Tuesday to put in WiFi and that is have an email.
Two days later, no email. I called again and again was passed around for 42minutes. I then got to a customer advisor who can only be described as the rudest person on the planet. When i said I was told that the broadband would be installed next week he laughed and then said "there's no way that will happen, don't you see the news?! No one is able to install anything until June!" When I said that that is fine, I'd like to cancel and a refund as we will Lok at alternative arrangements (I didn't say but I was going to call my mobile company and get a dongle), The boy laughed again and said "you're really stupid aren't you? No one can do this for you before us." I was then told everything for me was cancelled and I could expect a cheque in the post (to which I asked why they could not refund a card) and told I was ride for talking over him when he kept explaining how stupid I was.
I would strongly recommend abiding this atrocious company.
We then went with BT expecting a delay and actually the technician came out 3 working days after our enquiry!
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- Location
- Penicuik
- Reviewing
- John Lewis Broadband
- Date
- 2015-08-16
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- Location
- Penketh, Warrington
- Reviewing
- John Lewis Broadband
- Date
- 2019-03-03
- Comments
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Have to say so far so good. Had been with Virgin cable for more than 10 years, but was determined to reduce my monthly bill. Couldn't get virgin to budge on price so looked around for a good deal. Price good and customer contact centre very efficient. Only issue I had was I had to call customer support to activate the broadband after the phone connections had been made by the engineer. Speed so far good and able to use Freeplay no problems
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- Location
- Penrith
- Reviewing
- John Lewis Broadband
- Date
- 2022-03-28
- Comments
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I would have given 5 stars for reliability of the consistency of the poor broadband speed and exceptionally poor customer service. Assistant after assistant tries (I suspect the system is the problem rather than the people) to do something and the easy option seems to be to bump it to the next billing date/openreach engineer visit and hope they can squeeze another month's payment out in the meantime. It is extraordinarilyl bad - I don't do reviews but am at my wit's end now and in the absence of any resolution from them over 5 months - I just need to share to release the frustration of being stuck with them not providing a minimum guaranteed speed at all (OR will agree but to JLB black is white). It is baffling. One thing that can be said though, is that they thoroughly deserve the accolade of being the joint worst provider in Which? 's current broadband services. Really do believe the poor reviews - ordinarily I might say decide for yourself, but this time - spare yourself the hassle.
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- Location
- Penzance
- Reviewing
- John Lewis Broadband
- Date
- 2018-09-29
- Comments
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Very poor service. Broadband regularly goes through phases where it drops out. Although customer support reset line, which cures issue for a short while, they never seem to get to root of problem. And getting through to them on phone is hard work - very long waits.
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- Perth Scotland
- Reviewing
- John Lewis Broadband
- Date
- 2018-10-19
- Comments
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Brilliant company. Just swapped over from BT. Saved £200+ per year, Speed up from 51Mb to 63Mb for download, 9Mb to 18Mb for upload. Everything came as promised. Instructions were the clearest that I have ever seen. They answer the phone very quickly. I will not be going back to BT. What is not to like!!!!
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- Location
- Peterborough
- Reviewing
- John Lewis Broadband
- Date
- 2019-03-17
- Comments
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1 star is too generous. Please heed my warning, and do not use John Lewis Broadband. Do not be seduced by their offer of a gift voucher. It is not worth it. I transferred my service from Sky to them on 4th March. I was due to go over to them on Monday 18th. In this time the only communication I had was from Sky to say they were aware I was leaving them. Nothing from John Lewis and no router, so today (16th) I called them, only to be told that the request to transfer the line hadn't gone through properly. Apparently this was not their fault, it was Open Reaches fault and they were going to complain themselves. I was told he would email me to advise what was happening and try and get this pushed through for 18th, and to put my feet up and have a tea. Cocky idiot. I got his response on email and it was woefully insufficient. They were now blaming Sky - 'Sky hadn't received our order until a later date...' (??) 'so they rejected our request to keep the number. I've spoke to number ports and they've raised a manual order to get the services live on the 25th instead'. It also said underneath that my query was on hold till Wednesday 20th, so he was OK with leaving my high and dry till then? No thanks. They are a total shambles. They don't accept any accountability for THEIR mistakes, and there was at no point an apology from this person or from anyone I spoke to on the phone when I called to cancel the request altogether. DO NOT PUT YOURSELF THROUGH THIS. Their line for customers opting to leave them was red hot. I was on hold for 40 minutes. No wonder. Go with a reputable provider and don't waste your whole Saturday like I have had to do to deal with these jokers. I'm staying with Sky - I was only moving away from them to get a cheaper deal which they have now given me.
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- Location
- Peterborough
- Reviewing
- John Lewis Broadband
- Date
- 2019-12-11
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My service, the broadband itself, was ok. I received a letter sating they were putting up the price, and i could opt out without penalty if i wanted to. I rand them and took that option. My service ended, i paid my bill a day before it was due to end, thinking i would get a refund..... No refund, chased it, spoke to a human, even had a call log to say being looked into. Then i had an email for more money taken out of my account, an early termination fee. I rang them, yes was re-assured it would be looked at, before and after the money was due. Yep, they have taken the money out and because they have closed my account they can't refund it electronically..... the manager said he will send a cheque, which will take 14 days.... we have all heard the one about the cheque is in the post. What rubbish service, and no solution
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- Location
- Plymouth
- Reviewing
- John Lewis Broadband
- Date
- 2020-08-20
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Same as all the others...dreadful nonexistent service. List my initial order so it took over 3 weeks to get connected...only it then didn't work. Takes an hour to get through to support...they then cant fix it and font call back as promised. Needed an Openreach engineer eventually who commented theyd turned the speed right down. A week later, after several drop outs and a painfully slow service.. apparently I shouldn't expect to rely on wifi!!!...I have no internet and they think a faulty router. I'm off to EE to buy their mobile internet. ADVISE NOBODY USES JOHN LEWIS INTERNET...well actually you cant as it doesnt work!
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- Location
- Plymouth
- Reviewing
- John Lewis Broadband
- Date
- 2020-06-03
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Never had any issues with speed or connection. Got a free google home mini for joining. Some small issues setting up due to disconnect in processes: open reach don’t leave until it is working, but JL said they don’t activate until they’ve left and marked it done. Called up JL and got open reach to speak to them. They raised the price a few pounds after around 6 months which was annoying. And it gives you the option to change payment details online but it didn’t work so I connected JL and they said it can’t be done online.
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- Pontefract
- Reviewing
- John Lewis Broadband
- Date
- 2018-12-11
- Comments
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Like others on here I thought joining John Lewis broadband would ensure a good experience. Signed up and paid for first month Then got letter from BT telling me they’d relinquish the line at an entirely different date to what I’d agreed with John Lewis broadband. Then the games began. Queries went unanswered. Complaints get ignored. Because I haven’t actually been connected yet I can’t cancel but getting thru to anyone can help is impossible. Just been transferred to someone who can help and twenty minutes later still on hold. Don’t go there at all. The customer service is deplorable - I could swear the last person I spoke to was drunk , i do know the woman before that conversation couldn’t have cared a toss about the problem. Shocking. They’re worse than BT and that takes some doing!!
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- Location
- Poole
- Reviewing
- John Lewis Broadband
- Date
- 2018-10-29
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Lousy, struggling to a speed above 0.6mb/s despite promise of 1.5. No customer service after 6.00pm. Difficult surf at times and can't complete my online study. When I can speak to someone I will be trying to get contract cancelled. Best left, go elsewhere.
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- POOLE
- Reviewing
- John Lewis Broadband
- Date
- 2018-10-02
- Comments
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Total waste of time. I raised complaints and never phoned back. Waited 6 weeks for broadband never to be installed. AVOID!
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- Port Talbot
- Reviewing
- John Lewis Broadband
- Date
- 2015-01-31
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I after many years with BT I migrated to John Lewis Broadband because of cheaper advertised prices and the excellent customer service received at their stores.
Unfortunately it's been a disaster: fibre line speed is less than before - 60% worse for upload, customer service is terrible - John Lewis stores don't want to know about problems and JL Broadband doesn't care nor resolve issues.
Since I moved in December 2014 there have been 4 outages, including one today for 4 hours and counting.
I can't wait for my year's contract to expire so I can return to BT.
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- Location
- Portsmouth
- Reviewing
- John Lewis Broadband
- Date
- 2019-06-26
- Comments
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Technically: Speed more/less as promised - when the connection works. Keeps dropping in and out randomly on different devices AT LEAST 3 times a day for periods of up to three hours. Most of the instances share common feature of "IP address not available/in conflict" or "DNS server not responding" - but there are other faults sometimes (for variety?)
Customer service: totally non-responsive to dismal. Occasionally have the impression that the person at the other end of line cannot even be bothered to reel out the scripted excuses...
Overall: waste of effort, time and money - not fit for the purpose!
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- Location
- Potters Bar
- Reviewing
- John Lewis Broadband
- Date
- 2021-02-02
- Comments
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Awful, awful, awful. 8 days without broadband, no one is escalating the process. Ive had to buy data from my mobile phone provider in order to keep working. Keep being told it's external fault so out of their control when an engineer will go out.No one answers my online updates. An hour a day on the phone, not spoken to the same person twice. I only gave one star because I couldn't give zero. They literally do not care. I have been told for the past 3 days someone would update me by 6pm. Not one phone call or email.
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- Location
- Poyntzpass
- Reviewing
- John Lewis Broadband
- Date
- 2019-10-10
- Comments
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Broadband speed was low, but with John Lewis it's barely existent, when it works at all!
Phoned to complain and they said that it was fixed, it got slightly better, but now worse than ever.
I just don't have hours to sit on hold complaining
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- Location
- Princes Risborough
- Reviewing
- John Lewis Broadband
- Date
- 2017-03-08
- Comments
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Since abandoning the previous Waitrose and JL email/webmail servers, the emails are now painfully slow to load, delete and refreash. Indeed earlier today in 'timed out' before competing the intray loading! I suspect we are paying high fees to ride on the back of the systems servicing JL online sales and stores management/resupply systems. Meanwhile, online banking, google etc are still very slick indicating that it is the JL email provider's servers which can't cope. JL WEBMAIL quality is a joke!
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- Location
- Ramsgate
- Reviewing
- John Lewis Broadband
- Date
- 2021-04-15
- Comments
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I changed to John Lewis on 7 April. No broadband after 4 days, so I cancelled the contract. I was told this will cost me £80 cancellation fee.
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- Location
- Ramsgate
- Reviewing
- John Lewis Broadband
- Date
- 2020-08-03
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