Plusnet Home Broadband Reviews

OMG, what a bad service in every way! I stayed with them over 2 years and really regret it now. The broadband connection was very bad, always unreliable and very weak. My line stopped on 4 to 5 times a day but until 10 times, it's not considered a fault to them! so you have to pay and cope with bad connections. I only had a max of 0.5 MG if lucky, now with BT same line is giving me 2MG! I called to cancel my contract and was told that my fee was £60. Now they are asking for a massive £139.90 for the remaining months on my contract. I have an email confirming my exit fees but they don't want to acknowledge it, stating their T&Cs. They rip you off, bad at customer service, don't know how to provide a reliable broadband and are more expensive than BT at the end so why would you go with PLUSNET???

Plusnet is horrible. Every time you want to speak to them, you have to wait AT LEAST 30minutes to get through. We have had 5 (!!) engineers coming to our house (5 days we had to take leave and lost money) and when the 5th one came he was in in 5 mintues and did not understand why it was so difficult for the others..
We got some compensation but losing so much time, money and patience is hard to compensate. We waited 2 months on top of the month we already had to wait. My name (girlfriends) is not on the account but is in the username and I could not change the address, fair enough but when I asked him (after 45min on hold) if he could call my boyfriend 'to confirm' he said that he could not do that. Horrible customer service, AGAIN.
FInd another company, maybe one that is more expensive because the frustration is really not worth the difference.

I have been a customer with plusnet for years, and decided to move to sky recently as I got a better offer. If you work during the day and need to call them in the evening it is completely impossible to get through to anyone. Call waiting times are generally in the region of 45 minutes which is just unacceptable. I am currently queuing to pay a cancellation charge I was unaware I'd be getting but was clearly hidden in the small print somewhere and have been waiting for 20 minutes and counting. I am not impressed with Plusnet at all and have no idea how they have any reputation for good customer service. The waiting times themselves are an indicator of shoddy customer service to me. DO NOT USE!!! I'm much happier with sky.

Plusnet changed my going live date 3 times ad forgot to tell my previous provider so was without Interent for 24 hours.
Referral not showing & been told I have to get the person I referred to phone or email them to clarify I did indeed refer them (even though I was actually there at the time they signed up and input my referral info).Customer service were polite enough but no help at all.
Their ticket system only ever gets answered if they feel like answering otherwise you could be waiting for ever.
Absolutely digusted with them and I have not even been live for 24 hours yet...
Avoid at all costs. I will be taking advantage of the 14 day cooling off period and leaving ASAP.
You have been warned!!!!!!

Plusnet do not "do you proud"

Speed was always poor and connection erratic. Changed to EE and speed was immediately excellent and connection continuous on same landline etc. Despite excuses and prevarication for over a month, Plusnet now want to penalise me by charging over £50 for cancellation which they intend to take from my credit card without my permission. Be very careful if you deal with this organisation!

Reading the past reviews I'm doing OK. Signed up 29th Dec and I am still waiting for the goods and services that I agreed to enter into a contract for. No phone service or broadband. The router failed to arrive, I chased and I was told it was not sent yet. Apparently sent again! Nothing to date. The couldn't care less attitude was apparent from a person I spoke to at 'tech support'. Brilliant advice given when I stated I wished to raise a complaint. "You need to do that online" Tell me how I will do that then? He really didn't give a damn..Plusnet are not fit for purpose.

Pathetic customer service..slow speeds..unstable internet..would rip you off upon cancillation..tried to charge me for one extra month..upon asking reduced it to one month with no apology..very rude customer service assistant..

I just changed my package to Fibre and as normal customer service were great. I have been been with Plusnet and Force9 before that for over 12years. Never had a problem and they have always done what they said. Looking at some of these reviews it seems people forget that it is BT who fit and maintain the lines.

We've been with PN for just over 6 months and already we have suffered outage twice. Currrently we've been out for 3 days with no sign of when a repair will be forthcoming. The communication between PN & BT Open Reach (who do the repairs) is very poor. I have ben told today that following the the estimated time of repair (48 hours) BT have another 72 hours to get back to PN with news. In this day and age this is clearly unacceptable. If you are thinking of joining Plusnet, don't.

Recently switched from BT to Plusnet to take advantage of considerable savings. Transfer and set up was very straightforward. An issue arose over vouchers that were supposed to come with the package. These did not arrive. I used their website to sort it out. Average response time for each query was about 30 hours. At one point I was told I would have to wait a week to receive a link in an email!! In the end, even this was a day late. Now sorted however. My main gripe is the thoroughly nasty router provided (technicolor TG582n). Its range is abysmal and unless I'm in the same room the signal strength drops off dramatically. In the same room signal strength is about 86%. In the next room this drops off by 20%. In my bedroom (about 15 metres away) the signal drops to virtually nothing. I will either have to accept staying in the lounge or buy my own router - ugh

Not very often do you find a review to say they're having a good experience with a provider, and I've definitely had bad experiences in the past with different ones I won't comment on.

I've been with PlusNet now since Aug 2014. The set up was very smooth, I did it online. I was asked to pay a months worth upfront, which I paid there and then. They sent a confirmation email almost immediately. A week later they sent the set up box containing everything I needed, but was asked not to plug it in until the date they requested, I think it was around two weeks after. I plugged it in on that date and I've not had any problems really.

We have 7 devices connected wirelessly to it and a console connected via the Ethernet cable, granted not all at the same time but there really hasn't been a problem with the connection and speed. It always goes as fast as the device will keep up with. It's very reliable and even when going out of range which is usually around two doors up when standing outside, as soon as you walk back into range you're connected again.

I've not had to contact the customer services up to yet so I can't comment on that part, but as far as my bills are concerned they're the same amount every month, which is the amount I had agreed to when signing up and it's taken out on the same day every month.

Was fine, albeit slow and suffered a few drop outs on my router, stayed with them for 6 years.

Then, all of a sudden, a charge appeared on my bill for £20, which nobody could tell me what for, instead choosing to baffle me with nonsense. And then, I decide to move away and they slap me with a £30 fee for cancellation, out of contract, and don't tell me about it - instead use quite a threatening sounding e-mail which says they will 'take further steps'.

I won't be back.

Rubbish no wonder it is cheap lost count the times I have had to phone them down to 1.5 will be moving to another company ASAP when contract is up having to phone again today another 15 minute wait

Afer 12 years of being a Plusnet customer I decided to transfer to a cable ISP to be able to get their TV service. I thought that this would be a simple matter but how wrong I was!!

I telephoned Plusnet cancellation department on the 20th November. I spoke with Sarah, cancelled my account and paid all outstanding bills in full by debit card. Sarah confirmed that my account was closed and that there would be no further contact from Plusnet. A day or so later I cancelled my Direct Debit at my bank.

Sarah's comment was far from correct. Within a few days a received notification from Plusnet that they were to take my monthly payment by Direct Debit. I posted a comment in the Support area of the Plusnet and in a telephone call was told that the matter would be corrected.

Wrong !! I then received a barrage of texts and emails complaining that they hadn't received my monthly payment. Each time, I posted on the Support pages and telephoned, pointing out that my account was cancelled and I owed no money. Obviously, no one at Plusnet read these comments or took any action to deal with what was happening.

The final straw was when I received a further email threatening me with the news that Plusnet would involve a Debt Collection Agency if my bill was not paid immediately.

So, I telephoned Plusnet again and after hanging on the phone for 32 minutes my call was eventually answered and I was put though to Sam in 'cancellations'. Sam was totally laid back about the situation; descibing it as 'a bit of confusion in Plusnet'. He also totally dismissed my suggestion that Plusnet should pay me any compensation in recompense for all the trouble I had had.

He agreed that he would confirm in an email that my account was closed , that no money was outstanding and that there would be no further contact from Plusnet. Not, surprisingly, I have not received an email which includes these points.

So, there's my tale of my service experience from Plusnet - as far as I am concerned, I am very pleased to have discontinued my custom of a business that treats its customers in such a shabby way.

We changed from regular plusnet to plusnet fibre unlimited only to find that plusnet traffic management policy means we are restricted to 2mb download in evenings or often no internet. After midnight it download jumps to 35mb's but so what at that time of night. Its such a waste of time and money.

Basically we have no internet to speak of and its an 18 month contract. Complete and utter rip off, unless you're in all day or an insomniac. Never again.

I just wish we had known that plusnet do peak time throttle like this but it gets us out of an evening if we have to find internet somewhere else, cafes, libraries etc.

I signed up to Plusnet a week ago. Within 1 hour my phone line had been reactivated and I was able to make calls (there had been a service with another provider approx 1 month ago, so the line did not require an engineer callout). Now 1 week later I received an email to say my broadband was live and I set up the router using the instructions. I just started using it and the speed is great.
Also I did call the Helpdesk this morning just to check when my broadband would become active and they had told me today, and seemed well informed and were very helpful.
So I am very pleased that I chose Plusnet. So far I would rate them 10/10.
The package I chose was unlimited broadband and free weekend and evening calls. Very happy customer.

Inept and despicable customer service. Virtually impossible to contact . Make leaving un achieve able. Refer erroneous debts to collecting agency. Thief sand vagabonds. Buyer beware. Do yourself a favour , simply avoid at all cost

Very poor and slow at organising connection.

After being given the option of when I'd like the engineer to install my fibre optic broadband Plusnet then decided to arrange for them to come on a completely different day. I phoned and told them that I was not available on the day they had chosen so I got a new date. The engineers still came on the date that plus net had chosen that I told them I would be unavailable for. I confirmed the agreed date with them that came and went with no engineer and they then gave me another date which I can't do in another two weeks time. This is now over 6 weeks from signing up. Unacceptable!

Expensive compared to other providers, up to 40mb on fibre and an extra £5 a month to get the 'full' 70mb that other providers are offering for cheaper! Also dishonest, I was basically misled regarding my fibre package and what discounts would be available and am now faced with a fight to get out of my 18 month package without incurring almost £300 in exit fees. Not happy.

This must be the worst broadband company I have come across for a long time. We have been waiting since the 4th December for a connection and due to a technical fault we are still waiting a month later. Every couple of days we are told it has been put back a couple of days. To speak to customer services you have to wait between 15 - 30 minutes.... Nothing to be PROUD off Plusnet.
VERY POOR SERVICE and we will changing providers as soon as we can.