KCOM Broadband Reviews

Sometimes the best way to get a feel for a broadband provider is to read what those who are already customers think of the service they're receiving. Below are all the reviews we've received for KCOM.

Recent Customer Ratings for KCOM

  • Satisfaction
    2.8 stars
  • Customer Service
    2.7 stars
  • Speed
    2.8 stars
  • Reliability
    2.8 stars

Based on 100 customer ratings since 2021-03-27 (Show all time ratings)

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Ratings are left by users of our speed test as well as by reviewers. Recent star ratings summarise the last 12 months of ratings or the last 100 ratings placed, whichever is largest.

134 Customer Reviews over 14 pages

  • Reviewer
    Location
    Hull
    Reviewing
    KCOM
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      5 stars
    • Customer Service
      5 stars
    • Speed
      5 stars
    • Reliability
      5 stars
    Comments
    I changed from 6Mbps pre-Lightstream to 214Mbps with Lightstream and changed from HDD to SSD a year later, making my laptop feel faster than when new. I get about 70Mbps using wifi, which makes it pointless, except for phone and tablet. The only drop-outs I get are from the network adapter in my laptop. It's rarely ever a KCom problem. I'm very happy on all counts.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Hedon, Hull
    Reviewing
    KCOM
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    Utter crap. I was with BT before this and I sure miss them. 130k download speed, when it isn't dropping out and when I complained after a little while they closed the live chat and had the cheek to send me an sms to say that the problem had been solved to my satisfaction. I'm cancelling and they can take this rubbish away. They are nothing but con merchants and only interested in taking peoples money and laughing at us
  • Reviewer
    Location
    ??? Do you need to ask????
    Reviewing
    KCOM
    Date
    Comments
    To be honest it's a zero trying to work from home, as if times aren't difficult enough. Shameful that we are stuck with a below than average service. We need an end to Kcom being the only service provider we should have a choice.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Brough
    Reviewing
    KCOM
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      2 stars
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    It is a total failure. Low quality service keep freezing internet streaming with low quality of support team who do not enough expertise to solve the basic issues. Parental control is just not working at all.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Kingswood
    Reviewing
    KCOM
    Date
    Comments
    Awful! Can’t even watch a programme without constantly pausing for it to catch up. We hate it. Had sky before and no problems at all for years. I think KC put this out with the intention of getting you to upgrade the package. This won’t be happening as I am leaving hull soon and I cannot wait. Complete crap BB.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    North Ferriby
    Reviewing
    KCOM
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      4 stars
    • Customer Service
      4 stars
    • Speed
      5 stars
    • Reliability
      4 stars
    Comments
    I can’t understand most of these reviews. I have been with kcom all my Internet life (1990,s) and never found it to be slower than anyone else I knew, that had different providers. My nephew who lives in Doncaster & has Sky Fibre thinks ours is amazingly fast. We have had unlimited download through these unprecedented times and it has not suffered whilst watching Netflix, Disney, YouTube & playing Xbox.
    Great fibre broadband at fast speeds 220mbs.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Beverley
    Reviewing
    KCOM
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      2 stars
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    Everybody i know has the best package kcom have to offer however, everyone whom i have discussed this issue with is highly displeased at the regularity of the connection going out for no apparent reason. Even when it is not down, the connection is very poor and nowhere near the promised speeds.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Cherry burton
    Reviewing
    KCOM
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    Wi fi intermittent, no resolution from sales team . Sent numerous emails threaten closure of contract … The last payment they moved forward 5 days so they could secure another payment. Customer service Nil , Techinoical assiatance Nil ...Avoid like the Plague
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Holt
    Reviewing
    KCOM
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    Kcom is a total disgrace they have had a Monopoly in Hull for 109 years where the GPO never put the network in and BT still don't exist at all! Now these twats wanna go National well they are useless so avoid Kcom like the plague!
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Kingswood
    Reviewing
    KCOM
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      4 stars
    Comments
    Despite living right in the middle on a FTTP postcode, I am unable to get FTTP - as I live in an apartment.

    KCOM have given me all sorts of exceuses as to why they can't install, blaming the landlord, the building management company and an undefined health & safety issue(!) for denying access despite me contacting both the landlord and management company and being told there is no issue whatsoever.

    It seems KC just don't want to incur the expense of installing the cable to the building as they'd need to dig up the road in an area where every other house already seems to have a fibre optic line to the door.

    Despite also allegedly offering FTTC, they don't offer it in this area. So I'm stuck with a pathetic and obscenely expensive connection.

    I'm paying £45pcm for an unlimited data 4 mbps DSL connection - so pretty much the same price as a neighbours unlimited FTTC connection, despite being a fraction of the speed and utterly useless for downloading software, games or patches.

    It is barely adequate for two users streaming films.

    You'd be looking at £19.99 anywhere else, but there aren't any other providers in the area. Aren't monopolies great?

    The only positive is it seems reasonably reliable, but being reliably slow and useless isn't a going to win any awards.

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