806 Customer Reviews over 21 pages
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- Reading
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2017-04-05
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Like so many others I am shocked that a quality brand like John Lewis still put their name to this incredibly poor level of service. The speed is very poor, the accessibility of email is very poor. Overall conclusion, absolutely avoid John Lewis broadband. Again, like others, I am amazed that JL management seem to be unaware of these problems. I would email them, but as you know, it's really difficult to get an email connection.
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- Reading
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2016-10-19
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Bizarre. Serious connectivity problems on first day of going over to them. Couldn't fulfil ALL the security questions to investigate the problem, so they refused to proceed!!! Couldn't cancel...because I can't answer ALL the security questions! Infuriating - and there's no email address to try and get round the system - John Lewis Broadband doesn't have an email address!!! Even John Lewis customer services couldn't contact them. Next stop, Ofcom. Truly, truly bizarre. But then, it is run by PlusNet, so that explains it.
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- Reading
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2015-09-10
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On moving house we decided to move to John Lewis Broadband. When we called we were advised of a 2 week lead time. We booked on-line and were given 3 possible installation dates. Chose one then heard nothing. Time was critical because I can only work from home if I have broadband and I have a very young child. Had we been advised of the real lead time, we would have found a different supplier. I called the week before the chosen date and the original date was confirmed on the phone with a time slot. Took my last day of leave off to be at home. On the afternoon of the installation i got an email giving a date of installation a week later. My husband had to take a day off unpaid to be in. When I complained I was advised that they had not confirmed the date by email. I explained this had been done verbally. Yesterday the Installation went ahead fine. Today the broadband doesn't work at all. Each time i have called I have had to wait approx half an hour for an answer. We used them because John Lewis have such a great reputation for customer service but our experience has been appalling. I regret having anything to do with them.
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- Reading
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2017-05-05
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John Lewis might have made a terrible mistake
using a Third party to use their name - TERRIBLE CUSTOMER SERVICE - NOT FIT FOR PURPOSE
LOOK ELSEWHERE
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- Retford
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2018-03-02
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I agree with previous comments, John Lewis should break their association with Plusnet. The customer service is DIABOLICAL absolutely not what one is used to with John Lewis. The call handlers are rude, surly and ignorant. Avoid at all costs
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- RG31
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2014-12-15
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I signed up for Fibre broadband with them a month ago and to date still no service. I have had a clueless BT engineer turn up, have spent hours on the phone with the Plusnet customer support and have been given a modem and am now on the second router. Still no service. Have now given up and will try to get my money back and go with Virgin.
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- Rhyl
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2021-08-11
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Tried to sign up to John Lewis never happened, I only found out we weren't going to be connected when I called about another problem, despite a customer service representative trying to help nothing happened.
They blamed previous provider who I phoned countless times who told me my leaving date John Lewis said it was then down to BT open reach after 3 days of phoning and countless emails I got fed up and cancelled the order.
After reading the reviews I'm glad I did don't bother waste of time
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- Richmond
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2019-11-05
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Two months after moving house and taking out a new contract they announced a 12% increase - so I gave notice I was moving. By response I received an email staing there would be cancellation charges of £163… despite this being in contravention of the Consumer Protection Act 2015, so I immediately cancelled my direct debit. I then received a bill for the month despite my account being due to close just 8 days after that bill, which was followed by my broadband being limited.. The saga is not yet finished… I've had to pay the £48.80 and have been told it will be repaid when the final bill is raised - IF there are no cancellation charges. I have advised them that any attempt to charge a cancellation fee will be taken to court … will wait and see what happens … had they not got greedy on the price increase I would probably have stayed with them until moving house in a couple of years
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- Richmond
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2017-04-15
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Unbelievably awful. We were due to move house TODAY and now have to stay put for another month, costing us thousands, because this dreadful company cannot have our broadband set up in our new home, despite having PROMISED to do so. My daughter has important exams and needs the internet during revision. We will now be moving house right in the middle of her exams. Their 'customer service' is just a load of platitudes. Why is an otherwise reputable brand destroying itself like this? Won't be buying from John Lewis, Waitrose etc. from now on. Avoid avoid avoid.....
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- Ringwood
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2020-08-24
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Terrible customer service. Delayed installation of broadband for over a month so ended up cancelling and going with another provider.
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- Ringwood
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2015-12-08
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I ordered Broadband and a phone line to be installed back in October and here we are in December and I am still waiting for it to be connected. I have had no updates. If I call John Lewis the sales department answer calls after 1 ring - after sales and order follow up, I am on a call now - been waiting over 20 mins now and no one has answered!! This is a car crash of a service provider masked by the good reputation of the John Lewis Brand - AVOID LIKE THE PLAGUE!!!
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- Ringwood
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2015-10-12
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Changed to JL after reading Which review. Wish I had stayed with BT. Even though their customer service is abysmal and pricey at least their broadband speed was reasonable. JL is dire. Don't switch!
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- Romford
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2018-03-07
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Truly, a terrible service. Support staff are pleasant, but have no answer to continual service failures, and download speeds constantly below 2.0 Lowest speed recorded 0.29 And this in Greater London. During previous failures, they had me co-operating in various on-site tests, without finding any fault. Now they want to do it again. I'm on the brink of simply cancelling my direct debit, in effect challenging them sue me in the county court. I'll be good and ready.
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- Romford
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- John Lewis Broadband
- Date
- 2020-07-17
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Just completed my 14 day initial period and everything is working how it should with the promised speed. Had to contact customer services at one point and Mahmood was very helpful and polite and got everything on track. So far so good even in the middle of Covid-19.
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- Romford
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2020-08-07
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Please do not waste your time and money on this fraud company. I placed a request on 24 July for switch and they deducted money from my account same day. Even after multiple followups, no updates at all. Customer Care experience is dreadful. After holding the line for 25 minutes I managed to connect to one CC representative. The frustrating thing was that without asking anything on the query, he transferred to another section, which in turn went to never ending background music. Quoting 2-3 query id's for reference - 204XXXX44,204XXXX21,204XXXX34
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- Romsey
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2016-07-04
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After the initial deal, got very expensive. Switched broadband provider, then went on hols, only to discover that they had closed the email account down very swiftly, which cannot be reinstated, which is a problem for an easyJet booking as they only use the original email. Apparently unable to reinstate webmail or anything (I am absolutely sure they could if they wanted to). Very peeved.
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- ROYSTON
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2019-10-02
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Engineers failed to show up on 3 separate occasions and then tried to quietly cancel my order.
Customer service showed complete apathy for the situation and tried to book a fourth appointment without consulting me first and refused to re-imburse me for the days wasted.
Do not use these guys as a ISP, they are awful.
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- Rugby
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2016-08-30
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Absolute rubbish - avoid. Signed up as John Lewis is a brand with a good reputation. Their broadband is useless and just keeps hanging, response times 20 seconds or more. Tech support and customer service poor too.
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- Ruislip MIDDLESEX
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2013-12-24
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We have fibre broadband and the speed is excellent. Customer services is also excellent and free and are based in this country. Completely STRESS FREE. Everything was set up on the days quoted and I would recommend to anyone.
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- Rural Wiltshire
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2017-09-05
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Easy internet order. Router arrived in good time. Landline phone line switch seamless. Broadband transfer worked as it said it would within 15 mins at 0800. Speed on day 1 slightly slower than BT it replaced, router has equal coverage if not slightly better. Basic cost (70% of BT after intro deal ends) which was the top, mobile calls inclusive package will save bundles. Well worth it so far.
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- Rutland
- Reviewing
- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2016-01-29
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I wish in had read these reviews before starting! They are pretty telling... Don't use John Lewis broadband!! Our experience was very very bad, we have cancelled our order now... no broadband after 6 weeks. The worst thing was being told it would be connected on certain date time after time... Even promised then it not happening. So frustrating! Don't touch them with a barge pole!
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- Salisburt
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2019-01-13
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So many bad reviews, I think people only tend to review when a bad experience so I just thought I would say I have been with JL for almost a year, perfect switch and first class service ever since
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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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- Sanquhar
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2017-12-26
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Switched over from BT due to BT price hikes. On the switch over day was left without broadband, but on phoning the following morning it was quickly sorted out. Also unfortunately the router didn't arrive until the day after that. Once all connected its been fine, the supplied router connected at a higher speed than the old BT HomeHub4, now connected at a better speed than I have had for 6 years. If they'd made a better start I would have been entirely happy.
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- scarborough
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2017-01-24
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Where do I start? Ordered the Fibre Extra 19TH December and paid my deposit. Getting concerned that I had not had a start date or router, so I phoned up on 6th January. JL hadn’t actually ordered the router nor actioned the order itself. Negotiated a months free broadband because of their negligence, given a written start date of the 17th January. On the 16th January again concerned that I had received no router, phoned again. Start date put back to 20th January, no router had been ordered. Customer service manually ordered the router. The 20th January arrives, router was delivered on the previous Wednesday 2 days previously. No phone. Phone finally went live at 2pm. Broadband not activated. After phoning again and explaining that the lights on the router showed that it was not picking up a fibre signal nor connecting to the internet I was told that it could take till midnight and that they would contact me when it was live. They did not contact me at all. Midnight came and went no broadband, lights on router same as before.
Phoned on 21st explaining I had no broadband. Cannot even access the router homepage. One hour spent with technical support, prompted by me to acknowledge that the router was probably faulty, and that I was not on the package that I contracted for. New router ordered. Transferred to another department, to determine why I was put on a different package and why was I not upgraded to the package I contracted for. Unable to discover why and unable to put me on the package I contracted for. Apparently internal system problem. I was mistakenly put on the basic broadband package and not the fibre package I contracted for. Says by text that they will try again on 23rd January. Now told that they have to order the fibre package from Openreach (could they not have done it when I ordered) and could take 48 hours to process then activate. Apparently my phone number says I cannot get fibre but my address says I can. News to me since I have had fibre with Sky and Talk Talk in the previous 4 years.
New router arrived 24th January, couldn’t access internet, fibre will still not be activated for another 48 hours. After spending almost 1 hour on phone to tech, finally accessed router settings through ipad in order to input the CORRECT password and username, that were incorrectly applied from JL. Finally on the internet, basic broadband, although I now have to wait to be activated for fibre, for which I have paid for and for which JL failed to order. Broadband in theory went live on 20th January finally accessed basic broadband on 24th January. Absolute shambles of an organisation. I have never had so much trouble from a supplier as I have had with JL. Will stay with them for a year then leave.
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- Scarborough
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2021-10-27
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Absolutely useless. Moved on 6th October, booked 7th 1pm to 6pm turned up 7.20 at night too dark to go up pole. Booked 15th canceled, booked 25th, engineer turns up on door with no appointment or contact on 19th head trouble shooter fixes it. Works for 4 days they turn it of as no record of it being fixed ffs! Make new appointment for 8th of November! We have no mobile signal, cannot apply for jobs, ring family nothing. Over a month with no phone and broadband and still might cancel the 8th! Call center are no help what so ever. Gonna try and cancel go with 1p mobile only 20 quid a month cannot be any worse.
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- Scarisbrick
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2018-03-14
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When I first signed up they failed to supply broadband on the agreed date . We waited 5 days for connection 4 months into the contract we now have a fault no broadband for 6 days complete joke.
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- Scotland
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2019-11-28
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Well it was a fiasco from start to finish; huge delay of over a month to get service transfered from Plusnet. Useless initial compensation- I had to complain even to get a cordial response....staff were quite rude intially.
Then they up the price and I cancel and move (to Zen) and Im told that there will be no early cancellation fee. Im sent letters sayingthere will be and reassured again that there wont that my account is paid up.
Then I get a bill with cancellation fees... I direct them to earlier correspondence and they say it is a mistake, but they cant credit my account I will have to ring back once the cancelled dd bounces back and debt collection has started (I will get an email). Then when I ring again)they will cancel the charge apparently. He apologised for their system- as well he should!
Im not sure Im out of the woods with it yet though- they probably still have room to mess up again.
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- Scotland
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2017-05-20
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As a longtime customer of all things "John Lewis"I thought JL Broadband would be a good bet. But customer service is DREADFUL! They failed to get my service up and running on the first two attempts, having to start the order all over again each time. Both times I was offered a free month on my contract. When the service finally got up and running, JL Broadband denied that any compensation for the delays and for the hours I spent on the phone was ever offered to me. But as a "gesture of goodwill" I was offered £7 off my next bill. Now I'm locked into the contract and can't vote with my feet until it ends. AVOID this company if you care about customer service.
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- scotland
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2017-05-27
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john lewis have cheaped out with the lowest quality router on the market.. i can only get wifi in the room im in,, to add to that i cant use the router to connect to another access point because jown lewis have locked down the router hobbling its features, avoid john lewis and plusnet
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- Scotland
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2019-09-17
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We have never been so disappointed in a utility company. JL BB offered us a BB package which they were unable to supply. I have been attempting to deal with this matter for weeks and today I finally realised they are willing to lie and cannot be trusted. Formal complaint made.
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- Scotland
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2016-12-01
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John Lewis and plusnet are the same broadband providers. When I signed a contract with JL, they connected my account with plusnet by mistake. It took them nearly a month and many hours of my time spent on the phone to them to resolve it. No compensation was offered. I'm now with no broadband due to JL/openreach issue and I'm told I have to wait nearlly 5 days for someone to fix it. Very poor service.
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- Scotter Common
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2017-09-12
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good service with problems
never more than 5mb
fairly reliable
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- Scottish borders
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2017-01-24
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Recurring problems regularly for 2 years now. Very slow to none internet connection. Engineers been out said we should be receiving 1.8 but for last few months less than 0.3 at best having to drive 4 miles to a supermarket to check my emails not good what are we paying for? Ongoing problem that they seem unable to resolve. Not good for a company like this sorry
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- Scottish Borders
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2019-10-24
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Had I read these reviews before signing up to a John Lewis broadband and phone deal I would never have considered switching. My phone and broadband switch didn’t happen on the date quoted when I signed up - but did happen a few days later without a problem. I discovered - when I received an e-mail from relative concerned that they’d been leaving messages for me on a strange phone message system - that my switch had automatically added the 1571 answer phone system to my phone line - removing the answer machine I have on my phone. When I checked 1571, I discovered several messages from various people who’d been trying to contact me. I’d specifically checked before purchasing the JL package that this was an option I had to add myself. When I contacted JL customer services to ask that this option be removed from my phone line immediately, I received a response from customer services almost 2 weeks later advising that the 1571 service was automatically added to my phone line and could not be removed. When I quoted the relevant text about the 1571 service on the JL support pages - I had to add 1571 to my phone line if I wanted it - there was another 2 week delay in response from JL customer service, advising me that the 1571 service had now been removed from my phone line - but I needed to wait 24 hours for it to take effect. 48 hours later I still had the 1571 service. A further 10 days later, I was advised that BT open reach had to remove 1571 from the phone line and this had been requested. I finally do have the answer machine on my phone working again but am totally unimpressed with JL broadband and phone customer service and be finding another provider as soon as my contract expires.
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- Seaton
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2021-12-04
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Over charged and unable to rectify for months, what a load of cr*p. I would steer clear of these cowboys
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- Sevenoaks
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2017-02-08
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This is about Webmail. We used to have Waitrose webmail and that was fine for access away from home and on tablet. Now it has become John Lewis Webmail it is total rubbish. Incredibly slow to load, no clear instructions about how to select multiple messages to delete, so my available space keeps filling up. User guidance is all about different text display options which I couldn't give a monkey's about. Why don't don;t these IT people keep it SIMPLE? Do they know they are alienating JL customers? Hope somebody high-up reads all these comments.
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- Sevenoaks
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 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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- Sheffield
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2016-08-18
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I wish I could give minus 10 stars - this is the absolute worst company I have ever dealt with, and I am old! Everything about their operation is flawed, from the sign up process which took £65 from me but didn't register me as a customer, to being told (when they eventually got a router to me) that normal broadband wasn't available at my address, so I would need to upgrade to fibre-optic - which turns out to be a lie, since I am now online with another company, using regular broadband, having used library computers for 2 months during which time I despaired of ever having home internet again! AVOID this company - they are dragging the John Lewis brand into the gutter - I don't even want to shop there any more!
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- Sheffield
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2020-12-23
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Please avoid John Lewis broadband I switched from Plusnet not realising John Lewis is Plusnet. Should have switched providers within 24 hours but ended up having no internet for 13 days John Lewis did not contact me to update me. They came up with different reasons why the account did not go ahead so I decided to cancel and go with a more professional provider AVOID!!!!
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