Plusnet Home Broadband Reviews

I read all the reviews two years ago, I looked at the prices... I bought a flat, I needed the internet, PlusNet seemed like the obvious choice. This is the first time I've ever felt compelled to write a bad review. These cowboys are the epitome of getting what you pay for. It took close to three months to get online in a city central location (no refund, having spent hours and hours on the phone (haaa customer service?!!!?). I've then tried to cancel.... Plus Net... you robbing "nasty" people, I hope you rot in the fiery depths of hell.

Plus net are the worse broadband company I have ever dealt with. I wouldn't recommend them to anyone. We moved house and ordered the service on 10th April. On 18th April nothing had happened, contacts plusnet who said the direct debit hadn't been set up but they hadn't bothered to let us know that. Paid for package on 18th it's now the 28th and still no broadband connection. Absolute rubbish

I actually sought out a review site where I could leave my feedback for Plusnet, because their service has been that good.

We've been with them for a few months and are also in the process of completing a house move, so we've done a reasonable test of their service. All I can say, is that our experience has been excellent throughout.

We took their 2.99 unlimited broadband deal, paid the line rental up front, and signed up for an 18 month contract. Getting us up and running was smooth and hassle free; all their communication is via email or mobile text message, but they communicate a lot and updates are frequent, which I like.

The broadband speed is okay. I haven't actually checked what speed we're getting but it's fine for our use, which includes some surfing, game downloads for the children and on demand tv use through YouView. We've had to reboot the router a couple of times, but we had to do that a lot more when we were on SKY.

The service in the house move has been excellent. They booked an engineer and then text us the day before to let us know that all the work could be done at the exchange and so the engineer visit wouldn't be needed, hence saving us a day off work.

When we arranged the house move, they offered to waive all moving and connection costs, and reduce the monthly broadband charge from £9.99 to £5.99, if we extended our contract from 18 months to 2 years. So, we got the option to stay with a brilliant supplier and save money! Erm....let me think about that for a while....

Clearly others have had poor service or poor experiences, but I have only good things to say about Plusnet. I think their service is brilliant and absolutely way above the very poor service we had for years with SKY. I just wouldn't go anywhere else.

I was considering switching to your service.
However....

A friend who is having problems with broadband installation has been threatened by one of your emloyees.

When trying to discuss resolving her problem she was told...

"IF YOU TRY TO RECORD THIS CONVERSATION, WE WILL SUE YOU""

Please do not insult me by denying this threat was never made by your employee. The person who told me about her experience with you is thoroughly reliable.

I have been considering PLUSNET as an alternative internet provider, but not now.
I've also seen many negative reviews of your service.

Please don't reply by tellingme that you have many 'satisfied customers'

The measure of quality of service is how few disstisfied customers you have.....not the satisfied ones.

AVOID AVOID AVOID AVOID DO NOT GO WITH PLUSNET... I recently moved from talktalk to plusnet with the promise they would be faster and would be hassle free switch, on the day of the switch talktalk stopped the internet as they should but plusnet did not start the internet I rang them and after a 45 min wait spoke to a man who kept putting me on hold for 5 mins at a time and came back with no answers, in the end it took over a week to restart my internet as plusnet state: WE DID NOT HAVE A LINE TO PUT YOUR INTERNET ON... surly this line should have been held when we paid which was 6 weeks before we even moved over to them. we was promised speeds between 3-5 as talktalk was only 2.. currently my speed is not even 0.5 rang them and after waiting for nearly an hour to speak to someone was told they would look into it.. 2 weeks later still waiting on a reply... we are currently trying to get out of our contract as they have breeched speeds they promised... I will advise anyone to get out of it THIS COMPANY IS A COWBOY NEEDS TO BE SERIOUSLY LOOKED INTO... I was told they had won awards for customer service however I seriously do not know how they have done this because eberyone I speak to does not have a clue about what im talking about and everytime I speak to someone I just get fobbed off with another excuse...

DO NOT GO WITH PLUS NET. Absolute shocking service. Was promised they would take over by talk talk and it came to the day of switch over and we where left with no landline and no internet. After waiting over half an hour for someone to answer on my mobile they said there was no capacity. We where promised to be on in a couple of days, which once again didn't happen. It wasn't until we said we wanted to cancel, after having no internet for over a week they final put us online. KEEP WELL AWAY!!! CHEAP PRICES FOR THE RIGHT REASON = ABSOLUTE SHOCKING COMPANY

Do not go near this company its part of BT and the service shows they tried to connect me to broadband engineer said he called but he did not at all. The next visit will be in two weeks so i have no service whatsoever. Great start for 24 hours so i think lets get outta here and go to a company who can actually deliver. Here the problem starts they will only let me leave if i forfeit my annual line rental for one day of phone immoral and illegal sale of goods and services act covers this one . MAC code will not be supplied for at least 24 hours WHY its all tactic to tie you into them so they can supply shocking customer service and leave you in a situation where its difficult to leave

Service - what service!!

- Waiting times of 45 minutes for technical help or 30 minutes for customer service. I logged a complaint when I finally spoke to customer services about the long waiting times. It would be useful if customers could leave a telephone number and someone could call back as 45 minutes is a long time to sit on hold.

Speed - I was promised a speed of 7Mbs but have 0.7Mbs (speed with TalkTalk 13Mbs). I only moved from TalkTalk as I needed a static IP address.

The technical help desk could not fix the speed problem and took my phone number. I am waiting for them to call back. I wish I had read these reviews before moving to Plusnet.

* It took them five weeks to connect my phone line in my new house.
* Open Reach (BT) engineers were useless.
* My broadband is at 0.4Mbps despite the area average of around 8Mbps
* Customer service is poor with hold times typically 40 mins.
* The price isn't even great.
* New customers get much better deals than people who have had plusnet for six years.

There are plenty of decent telephony providers out there. Plusnet isn't one of them.

Rude and obnoxious staff!

My mum is 80 years old all she wanted was broadband for her tablet but took phone line & plusnet have left her without a phone for 5 days so far & she missed all her birthday calls spoke to them after I sent an email.They said top priority a sill have no word back.STAY CLEAR FROM THEY COWBOYS

I pay only £2/Month for unlimited broadband. I should get 14 Mb but I get between 1.7 Mb and 7 Mb (if a good day). With O2 I always got 12-13Mb. I cannot watch (ever) BBC iplayer without cuts (or Lovefilm). Gaming? What is that? Since I am with Plusnet I cannot even dream about playing CS or BT4.

Avoid even if you get it for free. It's pointless. I can't watch a movie in 1 go without having to reload 5-8 times.

Poor tel service. Always 30-40 min wait, even on Sunday morning !. Slow broadband. Not nec cheaper than talk talk . Avoid.

Dreadful company!! Our broadband regularly stops working, meaning I have to phone plusnet (usually sitting on hold for ages - recently was kept on hold for over 45 minutes before speaking to anyone) and wait 2-3 days for them to sort it out. Most recently had to have an engineer come out to the house - had to wait 9 days for an appointment! Still unresolved, waiting for plusnet to contact me about a new router, and now the phone line is not working either. I submitted a formal written complaint to their complaints dept, which I see from the online 'question' has been received but I have received no apology or even acknowledgement of this! They do not charge for the days without broadband but seem unwilling to acknowledge the massive and repeated inconvenience caused and their customer service staff frankly don't seem to care. Will be leaving my contract as soon as I am able and will definitely never choose plusnet again! Has also put me off B.T. somewhat as Plusnet is a subsidiary of B.T. although will read some B.T. reviews first.
0 out of 10 for plusnet i'm afraid!!

Plusnet / New Call Telecom - the epitome of FALSE ECONOMY - you'll be attracted by their offer of cheap broadband... However, my experince from that point on has been nothing but pure disappointment... It took them over a month to send a BT engineer to my property to work out there was a fault on my line - cue huge bills from having to surf the web at coffee shops or on my 3G phone... In one month I went over my download usage limit - I was asked to pay 50% (immediately by debit card) of the capped over usage to clear my account - which I dutifully did. How annoyed I was then to next month receive a Direct Debit from my bank account of almost £100 - equivalent to approx. 6 months of what I would expect to be billed. It transpired that despite the previous call where I was informed of the over usage and I cleared the account AND asked for my download limit to be increased to 'unlimited' they had only succeeded in taking my payment by debit card - they had not in fact increased by download limit to unlimited, NEITHER had they allocated my payment - meaning I was in effect being double charged for something which should have not been allowed to continue.
As I type this a month has elapsed, countless hours of phone calls and promises made which appear to come to no fruition when the promised refunds fail to materialise in my account. At the last call I have just made I have been promised a full refund into my account NEXT month - but I hold no hope - it's been promised before and not happened. My money is still with the company - in effect being held to ransom - all the while they continue to extract monthly direct debits without sign of recourse. In a nutshell I've overpaid at least 3 times what I thought I was going to be billed (to date) when I first took out the contract. If i were you I'd go for one of the big name reliable companies that won't leave you more out of pocket than you thought you would be.

Awful company. Switched to BT in Sept 2013 and they continued billing me. They owe me £70 but unable to get through on their award winning helpline. Have rung 8 times and waited over an hour in total. Avoid them like the plague.

Hello
Didn't get as far as getting a broadband service from PlusNet. Within 24hrs of my order, they had taken a deposit out of my account and set up a direct debit. Shame their service did not match the same speed. After a week I phoned them and asked why I had not received any email contact from them. They said their journal showed they had sent an email saying they could not connect me to Fibre Optic, but they would supply me with asdl broadband/telephone service. Having confirmed my email address with them, I asked them to send the email again. I got nothing, so ended up sending them a recorded delivery letter cancelling my order and asking for my money back.
You would have thought that PlusNet would have phoned to say they could not satisfy my order as they had no response from me from their email. Why would they think that I wanted to swap like for like (I am with TalkTalk)Broadband. As I have found out. My phone line is not Fibre Optic enabled at the moment. This should have been apparent to them at the point of ordering.

Regards

I have purchased a broadband and phone package from Plusnet 2 months ago, however I have yet to gain access to the internet on a package that I have been paying for for the last 2 months!

The problem is a simple to resolve one that it seems the staff at the company can not be bothered to resolve. My internet connection was activated just under two months ago and I was supposed to receive a router before this date, however no router came. After contacting Plusnet they told me they sent another one. 10 days later no router. Called again, they said they sent another one, the story is the same and ongoing. My address is 100% correct, as

1. I receive all my mail from various different couriers including royal mail.
2. The Engineer who installed my phone line seem to find my address very easily. (This service was prompt, mainly because they are a sub-contractor and not plusnet)

Plusnet refuses to send me a router by any form of recorded delivery, and they require me to pay £90 to cancel a contract they have not upheld!

They customer service (UK based as they advertise) are incompetent and seem to be bored and sleepy.

I moved to Plusnet because I had purchased the service for my parents many years ago when they were Force9. And assumed their service was still as good.
I am now going to move my parents internet to someone more reliable as well, as it seems even TalTalk is providing a better service!

Broadband slowest around poor customer service and broadband keeps cutting out

PLUSNET = more like SCAMNET: Absolutely awful service
I recently joined plusnet and have been sorely disappointed. Glad I was smart enough not to enter a contract. It did mean forking out £100 to get set up (and ripped off) but at least I can give notice immediately.
It started with me being lied to and told the up front £100 payment included 1 month in advance. Since this was paid before the service went live, I was told that in the next month, I would be refunded pro rata
Then, to throw a spanner in the works, plusnet tried it on and said they were taking a random debit I had not agreed to and which contradicted the contract. I had to contact my bank to block it.
This led to a catalogue of problems. By the time the actual agreed monthly direct debit came round – due the mistake made by plusnet, my bank had not yet unblocked the account. So I was forced to pay by card.
To add insult to injury, I was badly ripped off as plusnet claimed I had to pay another month in advance. So I have paid 2 months in advance for only a few weeks service!
So watch out for this scam. Make sure you get the written contract upfront. I now have to write the card provider I used to make the most recent payment and tell them to block plusnet in case they try to take more money.
SCAMMERS! I am so annoyed I got ripped off. Now begins the battle to get my money back from these scam artists.
PLUSNET: It is very short sighted to scam the public like this – what happens is online reviews such as this appear to warn other potential victims, and you will get the reputation you deserve