Gigaclear Home Broadband Reviews

I was the first instal in this postcode and I waited about 9 months for them to sort out issues. First saying there was a break further back down the line and then eventually rewiring the modem. So there obviously was no problem.Consequently I had to set it up myself. I paid for a contract for 300Mb but only recently tested it to find I struggle to get 200 Mb. I spoke to them when the contract was up for renewal but they told me their contracts are for speeds of either 200 or 400. I would have to pay more for the 400 (which I probably can't get). If I opt for 200 I will have to send back one of my Velop wifi extenders.Of course I could have cancelled and re-subscribed as a new customer for about half the price (I thought we'd stopped all that)but I would be without broadband while I waited for re-connection.
I'm pretty stuck as there are no other providers of superfast broadband in my village.
Not a great experience

Be very wary about the Gigaclear service, connection to the property speeds are as advertised, but nothing else, and Customer Service is adequate, and be aware that your 14 day consumer rights only apply if your installation is within 14 days of the order, not 14 days of the installation!!

I was the first install in my area, and the physical activity was completed with no issues and the team involved were very good, but the work wasn’t completed, as they didn’t have the correct kit to be able to draw the cable to my property as the initial install was performed to the wrong cabinet. This was resolved within a couple of hours, but i had to chase them to activate the service, which took a further 2 days!
As a fairly switched on IT professional, the installation of the Linksys Router and Wi-Fi node was reasonably straightforward, but this may not be the case for everybody and they don’t really cover the installation of the kit.
The Router is consistently connected to the outside world at more than the 600Mb that i am paying for, but unless you are cable connected to your Router, you aren’t going to get anywhere near that speed (and as the Router only has one port beyond that needed for the Modem connection, you will need to buy a 1GbE switch to connect anything else you can that is close to the Router, more unaccounted for expense basically). If i stand by the Router and Speedtest.net from various devices over Wi-Fi, the best ive achieved is 230Mb, and testing different devices one after the other from the same location gives wildly differing speeds, even the same device tested a number of times gives no common speed.
The main issue here i believe is the Linksys equipment they provide, its not great, and i would say that its only adequate.
I use powerline plugs to extend my ‘wired’ network capability, and again speeds are highly variable, but this clearly depends upon the quality and age of your power network in your property.
The upside is that its cheaper, during the offer period, than any other provider in my area (BT infrastructure, so not much competition), and if you are close enough to the router you get decent speeds, but not consistently, and the speeds are generally twice what i got from BT, so its acceptable.
Not sure how good it will look after the initial 18 month contract when the price will more than double, im hoping that a ‘im going to cancel as it costs too much’ will elicit a better deal when the time comes.

Abysmal service and even worse customer support. AVOID!!!

Speed does not come close to what was purchased. Get multiple connection drops of 30+ seconds EVERY day. Try to contact customer services and get spoken down to by an idiot who is incapable of basic trouble shooting and instead clutches at straws to fob you off by explaining how it's your equipment at fault (It's not, I've been a network engineer for over 25 years... The tool literally didn't actually ask any questions about what was happening, just asked things like "What type of phone do you have? Oh, Android is it, yeah there's a really obscure fault with those that means it's not our network").

Signed up for 900mb in October. Installation was good, team were efficient and polite. The actual service is atrocious, on average we get around 10mb when it works, which is rare. Raised a fault, no update for two weeks. Locked in for 18 months, but have already started to look for an alternative to this falsely advertised rubbish

I’ve had Gigaclear 300mbs for a couple of months and it is exactly what it says. Excellent speed and reliability.

No customer service , contact me £22 but I paid 8 months £25 , they can give you 100% fix contact , totally want stole money from customer .

Totally bad company , don’t join with talk talk , bill increase midterm , if you leave should to pay break contact ,bad broadband

I've seen the promised 300Mbps using the BT Wholesale Speedcheck tool on about 3 occaisions. Other occaisions it's been really consistently below 100Mbps and often below 20. Service desk are extremely unhelpful, simply trotting out the same mantra "we only garauntee 300Mbps on a hard wire to our router" In the last week it's been so bad I've been dropped out of conference calls (without video) on three occaisions

This morning I have barely 10Mbps wifi standing right next to their router.

DON'T BUY
Utterly disappointing

Terrible customer service, they'll keep you waiting and make you chase them for any sort of update.

I have been with Gigaclear for 4 weeks now. The first three weeks are fine. Noticiblly faster than my old 40Mbps DSL broadband. On 1st August, there was an general fault in Oxfordshire, my boardband was down until 5th August. Fist engineers came checked the fibre box, internet was back for 10mins, once he left we had another two days no internet. On 8th August, connections is back but very unstanble and very slow, especially for uploading. Next eingeer's visit is booked on 10th.

Costum service refused to transfer me to a supervisor and told me a supervisor's call back will take 3-4 days. Not impressed at all.

AVOID Gigaclear! Slow or no -existing internet. Horrible customer service. The fourth day without internet and no answer from them. AVOID!!!!

Recently moved to an area supplied by Gigaclear. All set up fine and wired speeds to router are superb.

However, try getting in contact with them and you get nothing. Emailed them once to ask about extra wireless nodes - no response. Second email to say how rubbish the router and wireless mesh is - no response.

And the Linksys Velop is rubbish. Constant drop outs and buffering when it’s supposed to serve the whole house flawlessly. Recently spent the money on Netgear Orbi and it works so much better.

So, if you never need to contact them, you’ll be happy. If you do, be prepared for a hugely frustrating experience.

Terrible customer service experience, no communication within the company, after a weeks spent on the phone with them and an engineer visit we're actually worse off than before I called them. Months later, after we are told well get an upgrade due to all of the issues, no such upgrade materializes but they still set up a monthly charge for an extra router? I'm sorry for one or two helpful people I spoke to on many many calls but I'd stay away from Gigaclear!

Terrible customer service. Very hard to contact. Make false promises. Untrustworthy. Offer new customer more favourable rates than loyal existing customers

Appalling, no response to requests, lost communications and data, one person doesn't know what the others are doing. I am surprised they are still in business

We've had 2 outages in a year and a half, always recieving a text within minutes explaining the issues. Gigabit speed is consistent all the time and ping times are low, wireless speed around 350Mbps on their included Velop router which fills our large house fine. Static IP available too.

I have been a customer for two years and I am really delighted. Very fast speeds with only the occasional dropouts. But the point that really distinguishes them is that our service was cut off when a workman at our home accidentally severed the fibre optic line. They came out and fixed in within 4 hours.....I'm still astonished. Thank you.

Been a rural customer for two years after horrendous service from Bt via landline. Super fast broadband is almost unheard of in many rural areas and I cannot thank them enough. Just upgraded to their new router and the help from their service centre was excellent especially for a 70+ computer idiot. Ok there are times when there is outage but they always inform and at such times there is always 4g .

The customer service provided by this company is appalling. I have registered my interest in receiving a service but got no reply (as had been promised). After speaking to an operative I was put on hold whilst something was checked and after 30 mins on hold I gave up. An email has not been answered. Maybe Gigaclear doesn’t want to provide me with a service, but now I don’t want them to given that if there was a problem I would have no confidence that they would address it efficiently (or at all). So it is BT instead.