Plusnet Home Broadband Reviews

Truely horriffic service!

I have had speed issues for over 5 months. During this time I have been working with the tech team at plusnet, there is no resolution, and the said if I want to leave it will cost me over £100 (170 if I remember correctly) and to top this off they want to increase the price above the amount I signed up for by 3.9% above CPI! What a rip off.

All of this just to try to get the "minimum guaranteed speed that's hidden in the small print! I have NEVER seen the 41-60Mbps the lured me in with!!!!

AVIOD AT ALL COSTS!

Terrible service. Toxically cheerful and folksy customer service are unable to follow through on any of their promises. Internet service is slow when its needed (afternoons and evenings as I work for a US company). At other time its vaguely about the right speed but useless for videdo calls and conferences. The ONLY reason I signed up was because they allegedly had speed. They did not. AVOID them!

Terrrible customer service, mis-sold products and rude. avoid at all costs.

Signed up for 2 years at 31.99. 2nd month was sent an email that my price is being increased by 2.53 per month.
Apparently they raise their prices every March on all contracts... so what is the point in me being in a contract with these muppets then?
It is in their terms and conditions - I read them after I got this email, but from a legal standpoint it's got to be dubious. They didn't point out that the price would change and if they had, I wouldn't have gone with them.
Definitely leaving them at the end of the contract. Unfortunately I have nearly 2 years to go.

Really poor customer service- William was not at all helpful.. I have been a loyal customer with Plusnet . I must have come out of 18 mth contract no notification and my bills nearly doubled . Explained to William customer service assistant no refund allowed , not interested .Response must have gone to your spam. In the current economic climate the company should be a little more empathetic. Company must be inundated with customers as they are not interested in retaining them!!!!

Removed the old broadband line to install full fibre on 26/01/24
Since the installation, we have have no service since then (6th day now)
Must have called 30 times in the last 6 days to try and get this over the line and sorted out.
We are no further now, with plusnet blaming open reach and open reach blaming plusnet, than we where 6 days ago.
These faceless organisations who are growing at a rate that far exceeds their ability to offer a service, take a payment prior to being able to use said service and fob you off with weak arguments as to why it doesn't work.
They now have asked me to take a second day off work, so the incompetent engineer and return and put this right.

Rubbish customer services Just had what can be described as a ri off price increase. So rang them to tell them to stick they product, Instantly the staff member offered my a monthly cost just lower than, my current price they planned to almost double. He cancelled my DDM so he could set up a new 12month contract. What did I get today an email from plus a text message threatening to restrict my broadband service unless the rip of monthly cost was paid. Still what can yo expect from a division of BT, strange how they keep quite about that though but the engineer let the cat out of the bag when they had to come out to correct a router and socket fault. Avoid like the palgue they are BT even the same standard BT routers with a Plusnet sticker on them

Ordered Plusnet broadband earlier today to go live on the 9th, which is the date we move into the property. Received comms this evening confirming activation on the 10th, so I phoned immediately to say it needed to be the 9th and I advised by an adversarial agent that that my request to go live on the 9th, which I repeated to him several times, was correctly interpreted as requesting an activation date of the 10th. When I said, make broadband go live on the 9th he said it would delay activation by 4 days, and given his tone of voice it was clear he was just being difficult! Just rubbish, will shop around for another provider and cancel the Plusnet installation.

Just spoke to customer service in Sheffield, about no broadband. I am not on the list, for security, I explained my mother is 93, just out of hospital district nurse attending, she is unable to hear or speak coherently, all he would say was when can I talk to her, I explain again, when can I speak to her, all I asked is to check the line, nope when can I speak to her, you are not on the list, please just check the line, when can I speak to her, I reply you can't so is this a waste of time. He then hung up. The broadband supplied here is, and has always been terrible and slow, lucky to get 1.5 Meg speed, constantly dropping out, if the landline is used, or called broadband drops, because of my mothers very low need she has said nothing and just got on with it. Think its time to change providers as no speed no stability and no help at all.

I don't often have problems with the broadband service, but I wanted to get my Google Chromecast working (which worked fine with my previous provider (John Lewis), and now it complains about AP isolation towards the end of the setup. I looked on the Plusnet forums and others have had the same problem. Rang tech support, and the only thing they could do was factory reset the router, which did not help, and then suggest contacting Google. I have not done this because Google are just going to say that it is their issue, and I am inclined to agree.

Tech support basically useless.

I have been with Plusnet broadband for several years and never had any problems with their service. Today I spoke to customer advisor Luke in Sheffield. After answering my call almost immediately, he went above and beyond to help me with my query in a manner that I could fully understand. Excellent customer service. Thank you

I joined plusnet for what I believed was for people on benefits
Now I find they don't do it
So where has my supposedly plusnet account for people on benefits come from ???

Incompetent staff who like to leave you in the dark, I made a complaint about some issues I had. I was told an investigation was going to take place and that I would hear back. Obviously I’ve heard nothing back until a debt collections letter come through my door for £20. No phone calls or emails about owed money, straight to a third party company. Of course all they care about is money and not customer satisfaction.

Avoid! Terrible company,I was told it would cost 24 pounds a month but it was 30,they then started taking 53 pounds,I rang them up they offered me it for 28 said no then said I could have it for 22,I cancelled.
Bunch of clowns!

I have been with PlusNet now for around 12 months. I was previously a customer many years ago and had a bad experience with their customer service. When looking to change deals in our new home, PlusNet offered the best deal so I decided to try them again. I have been shocked at how bad this company have become.
We have a relatively new build home (<10 years) yet from the speeds we get you'd be forgiven for believing we live in a forest with no phone line. We are a short distance to the 'green box'. We get, apparently, acceptable speed to the router which is where their customer service ends. They guarantee a line speed but in the small print this is only for a wired connection and does not apply to WiFi. We had many issues with the service cutting out and receiving sub 1mbps speeds they sent a new router, which made no difference. They sent two 'engineers' the last from BT who decided to disconnect every other phone socket in the house bar the master at the front of the home. Not only did this mean we had to relocate the router, but now signal towards the back of the house was almost non-existent. PlusNet did not care a bit that this happened.
I have tried range extenders, power line adaptors and installing a MESH network, none of which improve the overall quality of the broadband and ultimately I still only receive 1-4mbps download the majority of the time and cannot even stream a 3 min YouTube clip!
Complaining to PlusNet is nothing short of banging your head against the wall. They are rude, unhelpful and simply do not care they are providing a subpar service.
I will never use this company again. Their Hub2 does not support MESH network so now I am having to work out how to install a 3rd party modem/router to improve performance.
Use at your peril!

Was happy with them for a while, but my wife and I are getting issues for work, teams, FaceTime, blink and ring cameras not working.
Upload speed is 0.5 mbps, new router installed, engineer tried to improve the speed but hopeless, FULL FIBRE is not available as only CITY FIBRE
Want to terminate contract but not possible for 7 months
Looks like I will have to pay twice now for another provider
If you want to use any application or device that needs reasonable upload speeds then avoid PLUSNET

Had a few problems on the line. Had no problem getting through to humans for help. I would use their service again.

we used to have 3 BB contracts with plus net for over 15 years, always been spot on, but since the BT Takeover they have gone downhill, I renewed one of the contracts October 2022, they now say that I never renewed the contract even though I spoke to an agent about it a couple of days later. been overcharged about £340 in total. apparently they have no records that far back including voice recordings. All I would Advise is take your business very much else where.

arranged a move home date around the open reach plus net engineers. The open reach man was outside in his van for an hour I went out a couple of times. He didn't even attempt to come in to the property to check everything was working and just left. Typically it wasn't working. Call plus net and the earliest they will get someone out to look at the issue is 7 days. Absolutely shocking that they will leave someone 7 days without any internet in a day where people work from home for an error that was their side. really unsympathetic service and no attempts to bring an appointment forward. Won't recommend.

Originally went with Plusnet as had been imopressed with the customer service experience whilst dealing with my parents broadband.
And the technical support has been good. But really feels like the good people that work there aren't being supported by the higher ups.
Am finally leaving them this year as despite asking this year what their plans for the PSTN switch off was and getting np answer, I have now been told they will not have a phone service after the analogue system is turned off.
It's just starting to feel like a very stripped back business.
Also I only had my hub working for under a year before the WiFi broke.
But the connection to my property has always been reliable.