Plusnet Home Broadband Reviews

We signed up to Plusnet at the beginning of May. It took until the 23rd June to actually be connected. Since being connected the broadband is awful, keeps dropping and having absolutely no connection at all. God help it if someone wants to use the laptop and someone else is on their internet on their phone!!

There customer service is absolutely ridiculous. No help what so ever and have been very rude. Are saying we have to pay a leaving fee even though we are still in the 14 days of receiving it.

KEEP AWAY FROM PLUSNET!!

Please do not use Plusnet for you internet service provider they are a disaster. All the reviews on their website are a fake. My connection has been dropping a million times in a day need to reset the modem several times and when you call them to fix it you have to wait on the phone for 45 minutes. Even after waiting they promise to call you back and never do and no one wants to take ownership. When I called them about the internet they were insisting on using an engineer and charging me £50 I had just changed broadband a day later from TalkTAlk and everything was fine. PLEASE PLEASE DO NOT BUY BROADBAND

Further to my review on here on 20/06/15 Plusnet replied on 24/06/15 with the following:

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As it stands we do not inform customers when there contracts are about to expire. However, we do from time to time send special offers via email. Unfortunately you are opted out of the special offers which we send out.
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I have been with PlusNet for a number of years. At best their service was indifferent and patchy but in the last two months it has dropped off a cliff. You have to wait ages for technical support which is no help at all and its hard to see how customer services could care less than they do. Then to add insult to injury, they want to charge you £30 to leave them. They are a shambles and an utter disgrace. My cat would provide a better service. Go with anybody else - these guys really are the bottom of the barrel.

I had the same as another person giving a review. Bill went sky high, was told my contract had expired. I asked what offers there were if I renewed the contract. I was not happy with the offer and then was told they would throw in a 50.00 cashback. I was told by the lad renewing the contract that he would get the 50.00 sent off to me straight away. I never received any money back. Kept phoning, then told that it takes 60 days to get cash-back as this is done by another company. This was not mentioned when I renewed. I have had dozens of emails from Plusnet saying they had opened a question with regard to this problem.
I received an email from plusnet on 9th June 2015 saying the cheque would be with me within a week. I phoned on 17th June as I still had not received any cheque to be told they would open another question which would close on 24th June 2015. Today 25th June I phoned to say I still had not received the cheque only to be told an email with cheque details had been sent to the email address I was using with my previous provider????? They only took my previous provider email address at the initial phone call in 2014 when I wanted to change to Plusnet, and this was only because he said it would be a couple of weeks before Plusnet could connect me to their service and they wanted it in case they had to contact me prior to the change-over. Why would the cheque email go to an email address I havn't had for 15 months when they gave me a plusnet email address when I took the initial contract? And which they and I have been using since April 2014.
I am very dissatisfied with this company. I would not recommend them

Broadband speed has got slower and slower, now averages .69 download speed. But I cannot contact PlusNet - 30 min wait on phone, online chat not available and no possibility to email them. It is intolerable.

Great for the first few weeks then it's downhill all the way. Speed is dreadful and you can wait up to an hour to get through to customer services.
I am paying £16-99 a month just for broadband so it's not the cheapest supplier by a long chalk. They tell me it's because I am in a rural area and yet BT don't distinguish between rural and city, same price everywhere.
I should have stayed will narrow band. You live and learn.

I set up with PlusNet after reading reviews online about how good they were, I had had issues with Sky and Virgin before and wanted a connection that would not be watered down by the popularity of a service provider in my area! so a good deal, especially with the price and for Fibre too..

From September to February, I had excellent broadband, no wireless issues, nothing! then bam! Connection kept dropping! keeps dropping, I cant view pictures online, see web pages, I have to re-start my internet again & again, reset the router over and over, just to get a web page up! Today, I've had to give up and move my office downstairs to the router and work from the flipping floor! just to get a more reliable connection and still!! with Ethernet cable attached to my Pc, the connection drops constantly! SORT THIS OUT!!! I've a business to run here!

Customer Service! Is a shambles, I've been fobbed of with excuse after excuse after excuse! I used to be a BT engineer, so the excuses were laughable to me, I've had to keep trying to set up a PPOPE connection direct from the BT modem to the PC! which hasn't fixed things at all! I am about to give them 14 days notice to fix my broadband or I'm taking my cash elsewhere and ripping their contract up for breach of service! DON'T go to Plus net! EVER!! Sky were better & Faster than this on old copper wires! that says a lot!

I recently (reluctantly) signed up for fibre broadband with Plusnet, having previously been a customer. Last time round I experienced long delays getting connected and was left for weeks without phone and broadband. No compensation was offered and I experienced extremely poor customer service. I thought I'd give them another chance but really wish I hadn't. I took a day off work to wait for an engineer to install the new service. However, despite their written confirmation, it transpired that my order had not been processed owing to a problem with their automated system. I only found this out when I contacted them online the evening before to double check the engineer was booked. (Also, my address on their system was incorrect but I was told they could not update it.) Again I was not offered any compensation for the inconvenience and time off work and again I experienced dire customer service. Eventually, I managed to get my initial costs refunded and my account cancelled having phoned them at my expense. My advice would be to avoid this company. They simply cannot handle it when things go wrong and their customer service is appalling. DO NOT BELIEVE THEIR ADVERTISING!

I have been using Plusnet and have been a big supporter however I have been left with a bad taste recently after my bill went from £7.50 per month to £30 - £40 per month (prices differed each month).

I phoned customer services who informed me my contract had expired (part of the jump was to do with now paying phone line per month where previously we paid the phone line up front, the additional cost was because we were out of contract).

I said to the adviser that I haven't received any notifications informing me my contract has expired, he said that I had received one and then tried to get me to renew my contract. I checked all the emails including deleted emails and I couldn't see any informing me of the approaching expiration or confirming expiration or asking me to renew.

I then tried contacting them using the online chat where the adviser said they don't send 'end of contract' reminders it is down to individual users to know when their contract expires (conflicting information). I am so unimpressed they don't send simple notifications, it seems pretty obvious to me extra revenue is being made from unsuspecting customers instead of sending out simple renewal notifactions.

If they had just sent a simple automated email informing me my contract was ending do I wish to renew, I would have renewed. They have obviously made a business decision not to do this.

I sent a complaint last week and am currently waiting for a reply. I will let you know their response if they reply.

I have been using different broadband companys in the past 10 year,this one call Plusnet is absolute the worst ever company,waiting for half month until the installation date.stay home for the engineer from 8am-6pm. nobody turn up,call the customer service for 40 minutes,speak to a staff, simply tell you the engineer will not be here and also can not tell you when will the engineer come,no text no email nobody tell you anything,can not believe this is a uk company,avoid for your own safe.Top 1 rubbish.I would give 0 Star if I can.

Been with thema long while (+8 years) and witnessed their helpfulness and value decrease and decrease ... now just another of the pack!

This review is of the last 18 months in which time the reliability has been poor and the the handling of it has been unhelpful. SHAME.

Plus net has a bad reputation in my area, speeds vary from 0.01mbps down, to a whopping 1mbps on a good day. Ping is around 300 to uk servers, upload of 0.05, virtually non existent and extremely expensive. It's all our fault, despite a payment towards a new router, and nothing wrong on our side.

Internet historically slow and unreliable. Router would crash occasionally. When i wanted to cancel my contract, i first had to wait 20 minutes in the waiting loop, then they told me i had to pay the remaining 9m on the contract and that i had to pay it right now or would be passed on to their debt collection business.

After changing from SKY I signed up for 12 months with this lousy bunch.
The speed is the same but the supplied router is absolute rubbish with poor signal in places at home where previously with the Sky router was fine. Router is in the same place after contacting their help line I was told to try other channels which I did without success I was told I should buy another router Im not prepared to do that I was told I would get the same service as my Sky a/c and as I was using an Ethernet cable I was ! Well after changing to save a couple of quid it has cost me more on our Mobile phone bills as we constantly run out of data because our mobiles connect up to cell rather than find the poor wi fi signal. I'm stuck with them as my contract still has 10 months to run

I have been with plusnet for over 15 years when it was still dial up with no major issues other than loosing the connection once and having to replace the router.
until the technology got faster and we started using tablets and ipods.
Firstly we apparently went over the monthly data allowance when the kids discovered face time and was presented with a £10 extra bill without prior consent. with |O2 you get the choice to purchase more date fist or it just slows down until the next month.
Therefore we decided to move across to unlimited to prevent this and that's when the broadband speeds slow down to as slow as old dialup.
When I asked the said it is because of your location from the exchange that the speeds were slow.
Now moved to BT and the speeds are a lot faster

I normally don't like to write a review but Plusnet definitely deserved one. I have placed a order for a fibre optic internet 2 weeks ago. The day before I contacted plusnet to complain about not having received the router. After wait for more than 40 minutes, I was informed that they had a technical issue and they wouldn't be able to complete the installation on the fallowing day. I'm very disappointed with the level of professionalism. I should have been informed.

Avoid at all costs!
Switched from talk talk to plusnet 2months ago. Broadband speed is okay but our nowtv and Netflix freeze often where as this never happened with talk talk. Apparently the same broadband speed.
Our current deal is an 18 month contract -12 months free broad band and we only pay line rental then after 12 months we pay £9.99 plus line rental.
However we are having to move house and plusnet have decided that this is going to cost £65.90 plus after our 12 months of free broadband instead of paying £9.99 plus Line rental we will need to pay £17.49 plus line rental. As if moving home wasn't expensive enough. Other options were if we took a new contract for 24 months and lost the 12 months free broadband and payed the rate of 13.50 plus line rental then we could have the move for free but then stuck with awful broadband for two years. Or we could cancel our contract and have to pay £195.05.
It's a shame as if we hadn't of switched - talk talk would never of charged us to move or increased the contract price. Will have to pay the moving fee and then the increased price of £17.49 plus line rental till our 18months is up and I will never buy anything from plusnet.

Hopelessly uncoordinated customer service. Wasted half a day trying to get a five-minute fix when I switched over from TalkTalk. I do not recommend them and will not be renewing the contract.

i am overall 100% satisfied with plusnet fibre broadband,it took just eight days to connect my fibre connection, there was a problem at the exchange but this was sorted the next day, i have excellent connection all around the house no buffering when streaming or playing online games and customer service has been better than any other internet provider i have had before, very friendly and helpfull. well done plusnet another satisfied customer