3,751 Customer Reviews over 376 pages
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- Ipswich
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- Plusnet
- Date
- 2015-02-26
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Despite continuing good reviews from Which?, I have recently experienced appalling service from Plusnet. The bills have become increasingly expensive and internet speeds have deteriorated rapidly (it took 6 phone calls and a month to get the speed back up - webpages wouldn't open).
I therefore decided to leave Plusnet in favour of BT and contacted their cancellation service in order to cancel the account. Plusnet sent the MAC code but didn't cancel the service or the account. The installation went smoothly with BT and speed is far higher (double what Plusnet was).
After more phone calls and terrible customer service, always being promised to speak to a manager but it never materialising, I managed to finally cancel (having to instruct my bank to put a stop on the account).
A word of warning do not use Plusnet - waits of over 30mins every time you try to call, they don't respond to emails and will not call back when they promise to. I will be chasing compensation for time and work lost whilst having to rectify this matter.
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- Plusnet
- Date
- 2015-02-26
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Very reliable and decent speed but quite frankly the most incompetent outfit I've ever used. Had to make three separate appointments for installation, took a day off each of them and the first two they cancelled without even doing me the courtesy of informing me. When it came time to cancel they said that any outstanding bill would be resolved via Direct Debit yet I have just received an email telling me to pay an outstanding balance or it will be passed on to a debt recovery agency. Their claims about customer service are obviously the product of some jaded and sadistic sense of humour.
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- United Kingdom
- Reviewing
- Plusnet
- Date
- 2015-02-26
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Typically British company, badly run from start to finish. installation was a joke, engineer turned up three days late and seemed clueless, cocked up the connections on my router and forgot to activate the fibre at the exchange so was stuck without internet for another two weeks till PN sorted it, no apologies offered. At lest 45 minute and often 1 hour plus waiting times to get a call answered, staff seem arrogant and sometimes rude, CONSTANT drop outs of service (every hour or so the connection will drop for 5 mins or so, PN aren't able to help, (even the BT service checker they suggested I used doesn't work correctly!!!). Getting decent speeds when my internet does work which is about 80% of the time.
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- Huddersfield
- Reviewing
- Plusnet
- Date
- 2015-02-26
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Great when the company started up, but much growth within a short period has resulted in appalling customer services - all areas. They are just too busy to respond or assist, that's when you finally manage to get through to them. I have recently complained by email to Chief Executive.
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- rotherham
- Reviewing
- Plusnet
- Date
- 2015-02-21
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Right then, plusnet customer service very friendly on the phone and promise you every thing will be OK.
Now for the translation we don’t have a clue what we are doing and we will get round to it one day.
Its only taken 18 months to get them to install fibre, don't know how they can run that TV add
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- Manchester
- Reviewing
- Plusnet
- Date
- 2015-02-19
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Sounded good when I signed up I went with Plus net because the customer services were in the UK and they promised a fast fibre optic connection for a reasonable price and they promised no drop off during peak time. However I was a little concerned that there was no cool of period, as soon as it's installed - that's it! but I trusted them. as soon as it was installed we had problems my smart tv is located directly above the modem and it is connected/hard wired with a Cat 6 cable. Even so it buffered when streaming movies. I was paying for 35mb/s which should be sufficient but when I did a speed test I was getting less than 18mb/s I used 2 other speed checkers and all delivered the same results and at peak time the download dropped to 9mb/s and the upload to 3mb/s.
So I decided to call their award winning customer service. After 40 minutes on hold trying to get through I realised that I would rather speak to someone outside the country quickly rather than not speak to anyone in the UK!
I tried on 3 separate occasions with the same results and when I finally got through to them they simply said it mush be my phone line to the house which they could do nothing about. 18 months later now my contract has come to an end I have switched supplier... added to which plusnet have charged me a £30 disconnection fee. I emailed them explaining the problems I have had and they simply didn't care they said Sorry you had issues you should have contacted us more and the disconnection fee stands! I couldn't be more disappointed and I urge people not to be drawn in by their promises like I was.
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- Durham
- Reviewing
- Plusnet
- Date
- 2015-02-18
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This is a bit of a mixed review which reflects my experiences with PlusNet.
Firstly I had left Sky and moved to TalkTalk who almost bankrupted me by deleting my phone number without notice and issuing a new one which they wouldnt tell me what the number is. As I am self employed this was major. Sky couldnt help as the number had been cancelled and TalkTalk refused point blank so I cancelled the service and came to PlusNet who said they could help - brilliant!
Firstly though there was an error by plusnet as they put the order through on the wrong number so it was rejected. This was only flagged up because I was constantly checking what was happening. Second time though it went through fine although the changeover was delayed quite a bit.
After the changeover I realised I wasnt getting CallerID - this is chargeable extra by Plusnet even though it costs them nothing. £12 a year!
I also realised that the international calling package I'd paid extra for only allowed 300 minutes whereas with Sky it was unlimited. So basically PlusNet was not really any cheaper than Sky for a more limited package.
In the weeks that followed I had a few problems with errors by Plusnet. All were resolved after a phone call.
Whilst on the subject of phone calls, it is great that Plusnet support staff are all UK (yorkshire) based. They are very helpful and in the most part very friendly and knowledgeable. However wait times on the phone are extremely long. Again in comparison to Sky the wait times are terrible although once through to someone the quality of service is good.
Despite being the same line as with Sky my internet speeds are massively reduced. In fact PlusNet now claim my line should be getting 11Mb/s (it is capable of 21Mb/s). With Sky I had a D/L of 16.5--17.5Mb/s and upload of 1.0-1.2Mb/s. With Plusnet this is down to 10.5-13Mb/s down and 0.3-0.8Mb/s up.
Plusnet also have very aggressive traffic management and their peak time (which is actually 16 hours of the day!) can cause real issues with downloads. Choppy video on Youtube and lots of buffering and download speeds dropping to 2.5Mb/s
So all in all they are very nice people who are happy to help but the quality of their product is far below expectations. Additionally I moved away from Sky due to huge price hikes but in reality PlusNet aren't really much cheaper once you take the true details of the packages and compare them.
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- slough
- Reviewing
- Plusnet
- Date
- 2015-02-17
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Hi I am a new customer to Plusnet, when I join the service they told me my line speed is 2meg which I will be getting, I was getting this speed with sky before, but after joining Plusnet I am not even getting 1meg. When I called them they said the speed we told you was estimated and they is the speed you will get. I will not recommend Plusnet to anyone and will leave asap.
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- West Yorkshire
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- Plusnet
- Date
- 2015-02-17
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DREADFUL APPALLING CUSTOMER SERVICE. DO NOT USE THIS COMPANY.
I went to PN as I didn't want to use BT due to past experience by me and friends and family. BT haven't been at all good. However I have recently been told that PN is owned by BT. If this is correct, it doesn't surprise that the customer service and treatment of it's paying customers is so bad. They use the excuse of 'terms and conditions' to do whatever they want to.. Put prices up, even thought you haver a contract, charging if you decide to leave the company. Any excuse to get money out of you. They recently put the line rental charge up by just over a pound a month for every customer. They have over 3 million customers, which means they instantly increased there income by almost £4 million pounds a month. !! Corporate greed and profiteering.
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- N. Kent
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- Plusnet
- Date
- 2015-02-16
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Slow speeds, sometimes slower than dial up. Sporadic broadband service, router not fit for purpose. On the plus side the staff polite & helpful but lack capability to do anything. Worth paying the early termination fee to get out.
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