445 Customer Reviews over 45 pages
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- Location
- Leicestershire
- Reviewing
- Onestream
- Date
- 2024-03-05
- Comments
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I have recently left Onestream at the end of an 18 month contract. I found that the wifi was unreliable and insufficient to support working from home. However, it wasn't any worse than some others at this price point.
That being said, the 1-star review comes from the fact that I have been charged over £400 as a "early cancellation fee" following the termination of my services earlier this month. I've contacted the customer service line and this money will be refunded to my account but since I don't get emails notifying my of bills being added to my online account, I was unaware that this money would be leaving my bank until after the direct debit had been taken and I now have to be without the money for "around 30 days".
I know this is not a reflection on the broadband service itself but billing issues of this magnitude should just not be possible! I would steer clear of them if you're not in a position to absorb this kind of debit from your account.
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- Kent
- Reviewing
- Onestream
- Date
- 2024-03-04
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My £18 one year contract ends soon. I do not wish to renew at £39.98 with Onestream but they make it difficult to cancel. You can’t email or write to them. You have to phone them, but after 48 minutes waiting for a operative,Charlie answered and pretended he could not hear me when I said I wanted to cancel.
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- Spalding
- Reviewing
- Onestream
- Date
- 2024-02-28
- Comments
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OneStream charge for cancelled services and left me with no Internet for over a month
Being with One Stream has been the most stressful experience ever. I cry every month and have anxiety attacks because of their incompetence. I am disabled, they are aware of this, and have done nothing to help me or accomodate me. Every month I have to contact them because they bill me for services I have cancelled. They promise they will cancel them and give me my money back, I am yet to see that happen. Service was cancelled within the timeframe so they would not charge me, I believe it was around October. They have been charging me since then.
In terms of internet, they left me with no Internet for over a month. They did not communicate with me, I was forced to message every week twice a week to get anything. I had to beg for updates. In total of over a month I got 2 updates because I forced them to give them to me.
When I called I asked them to provide their tech team with training, as they were meant to have given me updates and they ignored my messages, most of the time doing things I did not ask for to prevent cancellation of contract. They also treated me very poorly knowing I am disabled, trying to take advantage of me. I am yet to receive an update on this training, which I was promised. It's been a month.
When the contract started, they never sent an engineer. After 2 weeks I had to personally contact the CEO of OpenReach to get it sorted. That is the level of lack of care and professionalism of this company.
If I could cancel I would but they do everything in their power to prevent you from doing so. And if you are disabled, get ready to be taken advantage of.
They have no shame. And no, I won't change my review so do not harrass me with your "change your stars" fake Trustpilot image. All the 5 stars you see is the company begging people to leave reviews and asking in a very manipulative way.
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- Kent
- Reviewing
- Onestream
- Date
- 2024-02-24
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AVOID AVOID AVOID!!!
If I could give no stars I would. When I 1st joined I was charged the anti virus thing even though I cancelled it once the free 3 months was up. When I called up to ask why they had taken the money out even though I had cancelled it the man on the phone was very funny with me and basically told me I was stupid for cancelling it. Took me about 20 times for him to finally listen to me and with a huff and puff he eventually cancelled it. There were also other hidden costs I hadn't asked for. The internet speed is rubbish. I am in a small flat and can't even connect in the room next door. Can't wait to leave.
AVOID AT ALL COSTS.
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- Location
- Carlisle
- Reviewing
- Onestream
- Date
- 2024-02-14
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Stay away from these. The absolute worst company I have ever dealt with.
They were on paper the cheapest broadband provider so decided to go with them.
First con to watch out for is McAfee which is an opt out service rather than the usual free trial so they took a good chunk of money out for a years service through direct debit which is totally wrong. Had to phone to get it refunded which wasnt terrible as they did offer callback.
Broadband service was not good at all its sync speed was slower than my previous 3 providers. It was also very slow to load websites and found when doing a DNS healthcheck the primary automatic DNS was bad so changed it to use public. Bills went up with the usual april increase but wasnt at all cheaper than my previous supplier.
Then got the contract is coming to an end email with my account number. This allowed me to access the portal as without the account number I had to ring again which was not happening. Found it has enrolled me in some BT protection cost. Was able to opt out on the portal which I wont benifit from as defiantly moving provider.
Then 15 days before the contract end they send me an email saying my broadband is going up to extorsionate costs and there is a 30 day notice period. Phoned to cancel and no callback function this time. Waited 12 minutes of hold music then silence and they hungup. Rang back and it was an 18 minute wait and got the same silence and now on again waiting to be answered.
Robbing con artists.
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- Maidenhead
- Reviewing
- Onestream
- Date
- 2024-02-13
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I decided to switch to Onestream so I went through the steps, including entering my bank details and personal details like date of birth (surely it's sufficient to know a person is over 18) and then on step 7 of 8 it announces that to have a router it is an additional cost per month and that an existing router is unlikely to be compatible and you have to have some expertise to connect it anyway. Therefore, the advertised cost per month is a lie. Clearly an untrustworthy company. I now have to go through the hassle of ensuring they don't set up the direct debit as the previous step is to approve it. Wasted my time. Don't use them!
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- Margate
- Reviewing
- Onestream
- Date
- 2024-02-06
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I'd give zero stars if I could. Awful, intermittent broadband and even worse customer service. Over 2 weeks without internet and still no resolution. Just terrible.
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- Bridgwater
- Reviewing
- Onestream
- Date
- 2024-02-05
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Try to ring Customer Service to ask a question about the router to join them, but nobody answers the phone. I did read the reviews on them, and not very nice, so I will keep them far away.
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- West Susex
- Reviewing
- Onestream
- Date
- 2024-01-27
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Be very careful, many legal clauses designed to catch you out and charge £££
Be very, very cautious when interacting with this company.
There are clearly many legal ways with contracts that they aim to get money from you. If this provider is your only option, fine.. But if you can choose a mainstream supplier like BT, Vodaphone, PlusNet etc.. go with them, even if it's a few £ more.
Issue is contracts - if you move house it's £59 - other providers it's free.
If you cancel - maybe you move country or house, that's £280
If you cancel it has to be exactly 45 to 30 days before contract ends, miss that window, it's £280. Even if you specifically ask their call centre 'is there anything else I need to know' they will not proactively say, you need to return the router within 14 days after you cancel or there's a ~£125 charge. - Other providers don't charge.
I just asked to move house, I need to call them again, but it looks like rather than just moving and staying at the same price, they've signed me up to another year at full price. Edit. yes, looked in their terms and conditions, I've been put on a new contract at a higher price and they said nothing in the live chat -I literally asked 'is there anything I need to know' and they said no.
Look on page 14 of their 'pricingGuide', if you cancel it's a rounded up monthly fee, plus £125 for the worst router I've ever seen, plus an activation fee.
If you miss a payment, that's another £100 fee, miss engineer £120, engineer finds an issue with a wire in your house, that's £150 an hour to fix !!
Versus Vodaphone they install fibre to my house for free with a crane !
Absolutely disgusting, I know for a fact that many, many people will be caught out by this. You have to proactively think of every possibility and eek it out of them, comply with their very specific requirements that are designed to catch you out.
Do not sign up if you have the choice and if you can, leave this predatory company. Not to mention the month to get connected and multiple missed setup dates initially meaning my GF spent 2 weeks going to weatherspoons and buying food to use their wifi for college work, costing us yet more money.
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- East Midlands
- Reviewing
- Onestream
- Date
- 2024-01-26
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Avoid Onestream like the plague. By far the worst ISP I've ever used.
The first thing I'll say is their customer service is woeful. Online support tickets go unanswered, almost impossible to get through on the phone, a chance you'll get randomly cut off and the opening hours for the phone lines are awful.
My bad experience with them started early on. During the sign up process, you get offered 'Onestream Assured' which is additional monthly fee for who knows what. I left this unticked to say I didn't want it. Shortly after switching over, I also received an email for a free trial of Kaspersky Internet Security. Again, I didn't want or ask for this so ignored it and the activation code in the email went unused.
A few months later, I see my bill has increased a lot. It turns out, my free trial of of Onestream Assured AND Kaspersky Internet Security has ended and I'm now being charged a monthly fee for them! Two things I never signed up for or agreed to. Oh, and you can't just cancel these online. So I try to get in touch with customer services to get these cancelled and a refund or my account credited for these two things. I'll refer back to my first point here: customer service is non-existant. I ended up emailing the complaints email with a very strongly worded complaint and eventually got a response and this issue was put right, but they still had the cheek to blame me for not cancelling these at the start of my contract. Why on earth would I think to cancel something I didn't sign up for!
Throughout the contract, I had many loss of broadband, for hours at a time in some cases. Never had that with any previous providers nor with my current provider. Speeds were rarely what was guaranteed when I signed up. Now, with a normal broadband provider, you'd just contact them and check if there was a problem with the line. But this is Onestream, the worst ISP in the world for customer service, so good luck with that, especially if the issues are in the evening when their customer service team (can you call one person a team?) has gone home.
The final issue I had with them was leaving. I switched to a much better provider and thankfully the switchover of services went smoothly. Did the billing stop? Don't be silly. Even after leaving, my DD to Onestream came out. Couldn't get through on the phone to them to sort this. Sent a support ticket which they aim to respond to "in 3-5 days". A month later I finally get a response, saying they hadn't received notification from my new supplier (yeah, right). They still didn't actually cancel my service. I couldn't respond to that support ticket online as it was now closed and it said I should reply to the email to confirm I wanted to cancel. Their email was from a noreply email address... Unsurprisingly my reply bounced back. So I had to send another support ticket, to which I never actually got a reply.
In the end I cancelled my DD and ignored their dire warnings that my service would be terminated. In total I've been billed for around an additional 2 and a half months since I switched provider. Whatever savings I made originally by going with such a cheap provider has been completely lost (and then some) by all this.
Never again will I try to save a few quid on broadband. I'll be sticking to the major providers who provide what they advertise and are easily contactable when there are issues.
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