NOW Home 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 NOW.

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Recent customer ratings for NOW

Based on 11,961 customer ratings since Sep 2016

Satisfaction

2.74 stars

Customer Service

2.9 stars

Speed

2.56 stars

Reliability

2.66 stars
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  • Reviewer

    Kieran

    Location

    Nottingham

    Date

    25/12/2018

    Ratings

    Satisfaction

    1.00 stars

    Customer Service

    1.00 stars

    Speed

    1.00 stars

    Reliability

    1.00 stars

    Comments:

    DO NOT GO WITH THIS COMPANY !!
    Terrible terrible internet speed
    Always popping on and off
    We get 11 Kbps when they say it’s suspose to be 76 mbps
    Do not go with this awful broadband biggest mistake you will ever make if I could give it half a star I would
  • Reviewer

    Gordon walker

    Location

    Kilmarnock

    Date

    22/12/2018

    Ratings

    Satisfaction

    3.00 stars

    Customer Service

    3.00 stars

    Speed

    2.00 stars

    Reliability

    3.00 stars

    Comments:

    Saving loads of money plus free calls and no line rental costs . Amazing streaming too on my I pad phone and tv all on standard adsl x. Your laughing. When problems occur they have been sorted. Customer service is eccelent.
  • Reviewer

    Nick K

    Location

    North Yorks

    Date

    14/12/2018

    Ratings

    Satisfaction

    5.00 stars

    Customer Service

    4.00 stars

    Speed

    5.00 stars

    Reliability

    5.00 stars

    Comments:

    I was a bit concerned have read some of the reviews but my experience has been fine. Cutover went well with the Now router service up straight after the old service died at 1200 on cutover date. No experience of he billing cycle as yet
  • Reviewer

    Gordon walker

    Location

    Kilmarnock

    Date

    12/12/2018

    Ratings

    Satisfaction

    3.00 stars

    Customer Service

    3.00 stars

    Speed

    3.00 stars

    Reliability

    3.00 stars

    Comments:

    Going from Virgin was a risk but it am on brilliant broadband after a few teething problems caused by old line connections getting great typical speed and streaming now tv , can use I pad for movies etc good home reception and saving money . I have wasted a lot of cash on fast fibre I didn’t need. So goodbye Virgin. I highly recommend now broadband I guess others have been unlucky . Don’t hesitate to join or switch .
  • Reviewer

    Jill Baker

    Location

    Angel

    Date

    06/12/2018

    Ratings

    Satisfaction

    1.00 stars

    Customer Service

    1.00 stars

    Speed

    1.00 stars

    Reliability

    1.00 stars

    Comments:

    Disgusting. Don't care about customers at all. Been trying to get internet installed since September and it's now December. Moving to another company. What a waste of time!
  • Reviewer

    jessyb

    Location

    leicester

    Date

    04/12/2018

    Ratings

    Satisfaction

    1.00 stars

    Customer Service

    1.00 stars

    Speed

    1.00 stars

    Reliability

    1.00 stars

    Comments:

    bloody awful bunch. they say they will install you on x, call you to cancel, make you wait, don't contact you, you call them, wait for 40 mins to get through ,they say there's nothing you can do, wait some more ... honestly they couldn't give a toss about their customers.
  • Reviewer

    Pete

    Location

    Chesterfield

    Date

    02/12/2018

    Ratings

    Satisfaction

    1.00 stars

    Customer Service

    1.00 stars

    Speed

    3.00 stars

    Reliability

    2.00 stars

    Comments:

    If you're looking at NowTV broadband and you're thinking that it's just Sky with a different badge...think again.

    They have the worst customer service of any company that I've ever dealt with. If nothing at all goes wrong you might be fine, but if you need help with something you're going to suffer huge frustrations.

    For me, the issue was constant issues with my payment details. There is a fault on their system that meant they couldn't seem to keep the details on the account, they kept being wiped off. This resulted in harrassing emails telling me i was overdue payments and having my broadband cut off at one point.

    The crazy thing is, whenever they tried to take payments from my account they were able to with no problems what so ever, but for some reason their system just kept deleting my details.

    It's hard to explain in a short space of text how dissatisfied I have been with them, so I'll just leave it with this: 4 months into my contract I'm paying £125 to leave early. They're just not worth the ongoing frustrations.
  • Reviewer

    martin

    Location

    west midlands

    Date

    21/11/2018

    Ratings

    Satisfaction

    1.00 stars

    Customer Service

    1.00 stars

    Speed

    1.00 stars

    Reliability

    1.00 stars

    Comments:

    signed up and excellent communication bordering on harassment for a few weeks leading up until installation day , apparently there was an issue with the socket for fibre broadband in the main signal box up the road even though he was an enginear he admited he has no idea what to do so the engineer said i will still get broadband but at a lower speed - LIES! no communication from now tv as soon as things went wrong . rang helpline and told we will answer ur call in under 5 minutes - LIES! actually had a wait of 15 . spoke to a northern irish gentleman eventually that was totally uninterested in the situation bordering on being rude saying i would receive a call from the back office team within 72 hours -LIES! after speaking again to someone today who was actually really pleasant i was informed they will not actually call u they will just send u an email in 3 days time .- LIes! the helpful rep today actually said the account is up for review in 4 days not 3 ! essentially if something goes wrong u are left hanging with very poor communication and them passing the buck to bt openreach or there back office team that u cant actually talk too! . i saw the price and thought its owned by sky so must be decent but up until this point have had a terrible experience with very little communication probably because i havent paid my monthly bill yet so they dont care. im sure some people have had a good experience but read the majority of the reviews this honestly is a very poor company with very poorly trained teams in charge .oh and one last thing i signed up for 25 pound a month fibre broadband which included line rental and free any time calls . guess what ? they still intend to charge me 8.40 for line rental even though no where in there 25 contract do they mention this of being a possibility of that exact price . even better than that there line rental is 7.99 so why would i be paying 8.40 ? i asked the call centre gentleman at first contact and he could not answer and adamant i am liable for this charge . i informed him ive read all 25 pages of my contract and perhaps he should read one of his company's contracts before making false legal statements . ive got no doubt someone somewhere will take legal action against this company at some point as its seems it is built on deceit . am i a disgruntled customer ? absolutely ! is everything i said true ? absolutely . use at your own risk ! and definitely do not switch provider until these jokers actually get things up and running or u will be left without internet like me with no idea when or if it will be resolved 1 shocking experience hopefully i hope u`ve read this review before signing up . i wished id checked the boundless amounts of bad reviews before i did !
  • Reviewer

    Tracey

    Location

    Dundee

    Date

    21/11/2018

    Ratings

    Satisfaction

    5.00 stars

    Customer Service

    5.00 stars

    Speed

    5.00 stars

    Reliability

    5.00 stars

    Comments:

    Read a lot of bad reviews on this site so was a bit worried because I had already ordered a switch. This is not the first time I have switched providers over the years so I expected a loss of phone and internet for a few hours. 9am this morning, switched over, no interruption to service and getting max speed. Early days yet but happy customer.
  • Reviewer

    Leemcd1981

    Location

    Liverpool

    Date

    18/11/2018

    Ratings

    Satisfaction

    5.00 stars

    Customer Service

    5.00 stars

    Speed

    5.00 stars

    Reliability

    5.00 stars

    Comments:

    Fantastic..

    Openreach Engineer turned up on time and worked cleanly and effectively fitting our new master socket and everything was up and running within the hour. Speed and Reliability.. mmm.. well we’re no experts on these things but despite speedtest sayjng we have a slower connection its actually more stable and reliable than our previous 100mg Virgin Broadband.

    Overall i’m very impressed, speed and reliability os very good, communications were slick and efficient by text and email.

    Positives

    Half Price of Virgin Media
    More Reliable
    Easier to switch between ADSL providers.
    Kept Phone Number previous supplied by Virgin Canle.

    Negatives

    -Now Router only has 2 Ethernet Ports, Virgin had 4, don’t need them for now but ..

    -Caller Display is not standard on phone service, took one free call and service is free when requested within 10 mins.
  • Reviewer

    Steven

    Location

    MANCHESTER

    Date

    10/11/2018

    Ratings

    Satisfaction

    5.00 stars

    Customer Service

    5.00 stars

    Speed

    5.00 stars

    Reliability

    5.00 stars

    Comments:

    MOST People only write bad reviews if they are unhappy ... i am not Got rid of Virgin and quite happy with the service i am getting ... funny enough better wifi coverage in my house than Virgin ... just my pennys worth
  • Reviewer

    Amber

    Location

    Newcastle

    Date

    01/11/2018

    Ratings

    Satisfaction

    1.00 stars

    Customer Service

    1.00 stars

    Speed

    3.00 stars

    Reliability

    2.00 stars

    Comments:

    We signed up to NOW TV broadband, the box was installed and everything ran fine for 2 weeks, it was then promptly cut off by NOW TV with no reasoning given whatsoever, upon contacting NOW TV I was told that I would be contacted within 14 days regarding my problem???? 14 days! So I called the customer services helpline who rudely hung up on me before saying that the problem would be resolved by the following week, flash forward a week, problem still not solved and we receive an email saying something's gone wrong and we will be contacted in the next 2 days, 2 days later the exact same email. Upon contacting customer services a further time I am told to wait another 72 hours for someone else to be "in touch with more information", still waiting, still no wifi and absolutely useless customer service. Avoid, avoid, avoid.
  • Reviewer

    Michaela

    Location

    Greater manchester

    Date

    27/10/2018

    Ratings

    Satisfaction

    1.00 stars

    Customer Service

    1.00 stars

    Speed

    1.00 stars

    Reliability

    1.00 stars

    Comments:

    Well my activation day was yesterday 26/10/18 and I have no internet connection.
    It’s not good start nowbroadband.
    Also it’s half term and I’m stuck with 2 kids that are so frustrated that they cannot play there favourite online game fortnite.
    Reading other forums I’ve come to realise that I’m not the only new customer to nowbroadband that has no internet on activation day.
  • Reviewer

    Michael

    Location

    Poulton-le-Fylde

    Date

    22/10/2018

    Ratings

    Satisfaction

    5.00 stars

    Customer Service

    5.00 stars

    Speed

    5.00 stars

    Reliability

    5.00 stars

    Comments:

    No problem with the service for a Fibre Broadband you wont beat this on price. BTW the router for Fibre (Hub 2)is a re-badged sky router and generally acknowledged to be best in the market; oh and if you want to contact them just click on link at bottom of there web page. Like someone said any speed out dropout issues whoever the provider will be down to BT who maintain the line network
  • Reviewer

    Emily

    Location

    Colyton

    Date

    20/10/2018

    Ratings

    Satisfaction

    1.00 stars

    Customer Service

    1.00 stars

    Speed

    1.00 stars

    Reliability

    1.00 stars

    Comments:

    Two weeks after signing up with now broadband and 1 day before my connection was due to go live I called them to check everything was still going ahead. I was told the service wasn't available at my address despite being told that it was after entering my post code at the sign up stage. No attempt was made to contact me to tell me this and if I hadn't called them, i would have waited in for an engineer who was never going to arrive. I have still yet to hear from now broadband, i have not received an apology or an explanation. Certainly avoid as they obviously care very little for their customers.
  • Reviewer

    Rubin Heath

    Location

    Manchester GB

    Date

    12/10/2018

    Ratings

    Satisfaction

    1.00 stars

    Customer Service

    1.00 stars

    Speed

    2.00 stars

    Reliability

    1.00 stars

    Comments:

    Now TV Broadband Review
    Now TV Broadband Review. ADVOID unless you want added stress every single month just to simply pay your bill. Their website is diabolical to the point it takes a few hours study just to get a simple answer (mainly to get there CS Number which is hidden away). Their customer service is mediocre with each staff member seemingly giving different answers and different solutions. I've been in hospital recently and all I wanted to do was pay my bill, which for some reason there site didn't allow.
    I called them to which I was put through to someone lacking in any training as well as customer service skills. finally had the strength to try again this morning called them and they said "oh it did go through yesterday let me turn your services back on" this clearly shows lacking not only in your system but your payment system as well. All I can say is I've had enough and will leaving you guys by the end of the month. after this ordeal whether I'm still under contact or not I have no trust in your company anymore and I need a reliable service for work reasons.

    I guess cheap comes with stress, but no more we've had enough and can't wait to see the back of you guys to be honest.
  • Reviewer

    Gareth T

    Location

    Peterborough

    Date

    11/10/2018

    Ratings

    Satisfaction

    1.00 stars

    Customer Service

    1.00 stars

    Speed

    1.00 stars

    Reliability

    1.00 stars

    Comments:

    Absolutely the worst fibre Broadband I’ve ever had, in the time I’ve been with them I’ve had 2 new rooters and 3 now tv boxes due to failures! With the broadband the only thing they love to repeat is “ we can’t control hiw reliable your network is when your wireless” then why have I never had this problem with any other services before then??? They then go on to say well how many devices are connected at once at Max only ever 3 mobiles and still it cuts out! I’ve even put in a WiFi repeater and even with that it looses the now broadband! Honestly please listen to this warning ⚠️ Do not go with NoW tv broadband!!!
  • Reviewer

    Disgruntled customer

    Location

    Hampshire

    Date

    10/10/2018

    Ratings

    Satisfaction

    1.00 stars

    Customer Service

    1.00 stars

    Speed

    1.00 stars

    Reliability

    1.00 stars

    Comments:

    AWFUL - AVOID
    SERIOUSLY IUNLESS YOU WANT TO RUIN THE NEXT FEW MONTHS OF YOUR LIFE DONT GO NEAR THIS FIRM!

    There are a minuscule amount of positive reviews on here which are clearly FAKE and put on by employees.

    I can’t even face explaining the terrible customer service and experience we’ve had. Just tell everyone that will listen to you that this is the worst isp company ever
  • Reviewer

    Sarah Jackson

    Location

    Dorset

    Date

    02/10/2018

    Ratings

    Satisfaction

    1.00 stars

    Customer Service

    1.00 stars

    Speed

    1.00 stars

    Reliability

    1.00 stars

    Comments:

    Just the most terrible experience ever . I swapped from sky thinking that they are the same company what could possibly go wrong ? .. believe me I urge anybody to stay well clear . You cannot speak to anybody ... if by some miracle you do get through after hours and hours of being put on hold you speak to a northern Irish call centre who could not give two hoots if you have no phone or internet or both in my case . I cancelled . They still continued to debit my account . Believe me don’t sign up . You will regret it. Like I do ... big time
  • Reviewer

    Steve

    Location

    Gwent

    Date

    28/09/2018

    Ratings

    Satisfaction

    3.00 stars

    Customer Service

    1.00 stars

    Speed

    3.00 stars

    Reliability

    3.00 stars

    Comments:

    Takes most of day to get through to customer service and just found out that caller withhold and call baring is extra , looks cheap on face of things but bits like this add's to the price. Broadband not the fastest either. Can't wait for contact to end and I'm gone.