BT Home Broadband Reviews

Excellent speed and 100% reliability

Pretty Poor

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Paying for 70 mb/s
Crazy BT

Very unpredictable for it's price. I was on Virgin before and it was so much better. Being able to log into BT with FON wireless networks away from home has been usful but at home the wifi keeps stopping.

bt landline was faulty in october 2014, called the customer service center, they said will send an engineer to fix it, did not say they will charge me, i think it is part of BT service, engineer came 2 days later, he came in, put his tool bags on the floor, and then, his phone was ringing, he answered the phone, i knew he is talking about his private thing after few seconds, guess what, he was talking on the phone for more than 30 mins. he said may be the cable is worn,(he did not say why), he said need replace new cable, i said i had a spare cable(i have 2 lines before, cancelled one), he just rewire the spare cable to the socket, then did something in the BT greenbox, then it is done, he spent no longer then 15 mins. i received a bill it is 445 pound, 115 for the engineer call out,330 for his work, 110 pound an hour!!! i also need pay him talking phone, it is ridiculous.

Avoid at all point. I'm with BT infinity 2 supposed to get 76 Mb and it is very very slow slower than my old cable ADSL!

Fail, fail, fail. According to BT, Openreach was to blame (not BT!) when we requested our new house be connected. 2 weeks in, we await a case review in 2 weeks time to tell us when we might get connected. Told it could be up to 5 months, despite being the last house on the development. We rely on this for work as well as leisure. Time to end their outdated monopoly. Will change providers as soon as current contract ends. No means to complain to Openreach directly.

i had been with BT for 4 months, and have had so much hassle and stress with Customer Service reps in all parts of the world. Engineers turning up to my properties under the influence of a Class B drug. also non stop on the phone with Managers not being able to resolve my issues and troubles with their services
1. Bt Broadband on and off - had 4 engineers out to assist couldn't fix the problem to then find out that they hadnt activated my line!!!! then they couldn't refund me the days weeks i had no internet~!!!!!
i could go on for ever about BT bad service but would just advise news customers to not go with them and look further. i payed £281.98 pence to cancel their services and was ask to send back there equipment which was shambolic considering i had to pay for installation and the delivery p&p fee!!!!!!!

I went from Virgin to BT and I have regretted it ever since. I can't wait for my contract to expire so I can get my broadband from somewhere else. My broadband speed has gone from 31Mb/s to 400kb/s. BT Sport is absolutely appalling. There is no catchup option online and you cannot pause online coverage. This is unacceptable compared to all other TV providers. Not that it makes much difference as the picture is so terrible, it's unwatchable. I am not new to this. I have been watching online TV since it was first developed and I was a part of the test recipients for both the BBC iPlayer and 4OD, and BT Sport is worse then both of these even in their development stages all those years ago. There is no point in complaining to BT, they simply don't care.

We orderd BT infinity at start of March. As we were existing customers we were given a dearer price than a new customer, but our problem which BT knew about from the installation , was our slow broadband speed. It was incredibly difficult to make myself understood when I complained and the person would promise to phone back at a certain time and date and then never phoned. We had a second engineer in to check the line, although I had succinctly explained the problem was with our distance away from the fibre. And then although the second engineer had told my husband exactly the same as the first engineer I had not contact with the complaints department until I again phoned 10 days later. I have now agreed to continue paying the same price for downloading 9Mb and uploading 0.2Mb although the speeds I was quoted were download 18 -25mb
and uploading 3.2-5.0Mb.

I initially ordered on 23rd August 2014, received hub on 11th September.Told by email that I'd cancelled my order and needed to return the hub and that I'd placed a new order both on 13th September. Phoned customer services who struggled to understand, possibly due to language barrier, but was told to return the hub and would receive a new one, which was exactly the same as the old one. Next I received an email with a engineer time slot that was blank. Eventually broadband started on 1st october, 2 weeks after agreed start date, causing considerable inconvenience.

While broadband speed is good, the hub needs reset every 1-2 days.

Would not recommend, and will not be continuing contract.

We moved to a new build development in Oxford and had no choice but to go with BT for broadband as Virgin Media did not have permission by the developers to install cable even though there is 100 Mb Vigin media cable upto the entrance of our complex. We struggled for months to just get our phone line and broadband connected by BT. When it was finally connected (only after escalating to their high level complaints team), we immediately had a fault after less than a week. We had a number of short intermittent faults and now we have yet another major fault a month or so later. Their call centres are no help at all and we just get told the fault will be fixed within 48 hours. I was previously with Virgin Media and had a considerably more reliable service with a fault every 5 years or so instead of every month and usually fixed with 5 hours rather than 48...

Im so unimpressed with BT and beating my head against a wall, I struggle to even go through it all again.

Customer service really is a shambles where you constantly have to re-explain . it always 'my' fault even tho it isnt

Briefly got fiber at 70/20. In january 2015 BT started work replacing my cabinet (which they are still doing in April) when they did this my speed dropped to 35/3. Repeated calls to offshore idiots who as me to check cable. An engineer came out who told me yes I had a fault - went to cabinet to patch me into a different port - called me to say hes leaving it because the cabinet is a mess... BT dont seem to record any information so next person I speak to asks me if I have checked my cables!!!! This went on and on until I said if Im getting slow connection I'll just pay £25 a month instead of £45. I can only do that if I sign a twelve month contract .. OK signed up with SKY (I know sky will use the same line - but I wont be paying for 70M and getting 40). Final joke is they keep contacting me asking why Im leaving. If they had any kind of system they could look at the 8 calls I've made and 20 people I've spoken to to figure that out!!

Since Virgin BB migrated me to TalkTalk following the takeover, my 7 meg down has dropped to half a meg - and I have a media biz to run.
The bottleneck is automatic equipment BT use on their copper-wired part of the connection, and it typically takes ten days to 'stabilise' after migration.
There's no way an ordinary user can contact BT Wholesale, and a sympathetic TT engineer told me BT are a law unto themselves. It's a disgrace, damaging to the economy. Write to your MP.

Avoid !!! Absolutely sick of BT I cannot believe I left Virgin for this biggest mistake I made. Our package is BT infinity 2 and my speed right now is 1.8 !!! Should be up to 76 !!! We have to get an engineer out now £120 !!! Even though we havnt been with them a year and we have complained on many occasions.. Awful service and the call centre is crap they struggle with English. Our contract is up in May and we are not renewing I would advise everyone to steer clear they just want a sale and don't follow up with the promise .

I had been a loyal customer for many years and then when things went wrong I had a massive bill and when I complained their belligerent arrogant customer service dept told me that i had miss used their service! (as if anyone would pay a fee to avoid extra charges would then go and mss use the service) So after complaining in writing I wrote and told then that I was going to a reputable communication company and accused BT of obtaining money by deception, which they ignored I have been a happy user with VM and have broadband at 50Mb that is great for my Apple kit so don't even think about going to BT you will regret it.

Do not go with BT. Very expensive and appalling customer service and repair engineers do not turn up to fix problems even given the 5 hour long appointment wind (this has happened twice) without even an excuse or apology.

During the 5 years on BT Broadband We have experienced many problems. If you have a fault with your phoneline expect them to take at least a month so send out 3 clueless engineers to run tests and tell you the phoneline is fine until a smart one comes along and fixes it. If your problem is anything other than a phoneline fault then good luck my friend because I've had unstable/unusable internet for the past 4 months with no end in sight. I think they've sent around 10 engineers to our door and they've just told us that is isn't their problem.

The worst service I have ever had to endure for anything.
Please don't take the risk of using bt as they are truly awful

Dear BT - wake up we are in 2015 and you are supposed to be a communications company
Just had 8 days of no broadband many phone calls and texts between myself and BT and the broadband is back on well done BT however ...........
BT accepted they made a catalogue of errors inculing mis communication between internal departments and me the paying customer , they accepted the fault was at the exchange and should have been identified immediately, they accepted they failed to call me back when they called from india and the call got cut off , they accepted the BT staff (except the engineer that fixed the fault) needed more training and had not done their jobs correctly , they accepted that if they were in my position they would be completely dissatisfied with the service and wait for it ...... In lite of all this i was due some compensation ........ Yes a whole £15 Wow i said lets go and party ! Or i sugested the BT staff came and worked for me for 8 days for £15 and this would enable them to unerstand a customers point of view - SO BT you have a long way to go in customer service and communications dealing with you is like dealing with an automated tarot reading machine yes keep putting the money in and she will keep giving you cards containing lots of false promises ! Well done !