Shell Energy Broadband 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 Shell Energy Broadband.

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Recent customer ratings for Shell Energy Broadband

Based on 9,163 customer ratings since Aug 2017

Satisfaction

1.95 stars

Customer Service

2.01 stars

Speed

2.05 stars

Reliability

2.06 stars
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  • Reviewer

    Matt

    Location

    Manchester

    Date

    23/04/2022

    Ratings

    Satisfaction

    1.00 stars

    Customer Service

    1.00 stars

    Speed

    1.00 stars

    Reliability

    2.00 stars

    Comments:

    I have been with Post Office Broadband for over 5 years,, I always pay my bills 12 months in advance (I don’t have/utilise a landline), I have received my 1st bill from Shell!!!,, in October last year(2021) I was £268+ in credit, I pay £17 a month,,it’s now April, I know I have plenty of credit in addition to a £40 credit from the Post Office in the interim,, because of service issues. I have phoned she’ll over the last couple of days,,after 45 minutes the line is cut!,,needless to say I have not spoken to customer svs whatsoever, I also emailed Shell advising with proof of my credit with Post Office,, I received an automated email back stating I was not nor had any credit!!, I know I will be cut off for non payment, but I am in credit until at least the end of the year!!,, this is my first experience with Shell and would advise any potential new customers to STAY CLEAR AT ALL COSTS, I am unsure what to do now as I just would like to speak to somebody from Shell,,my login for Post Office will not work on Shells. Absolute nightmare
  • Reviewer

    Coggdave

    Location

    Essex

    Date

    23/04/2022

    Ratings

    Satisfaction

    2.00 stars

    Customer Service

    1.00 stars

    Speed

    5.00 stars

    Reliability

    5.00 stars

    Comments:

    Was with Post Office for years, could rely on their integrity and honesty.
    While the service remains the same, they have lied and scammed me over new price structure.
    Was promised a new reduced price if I stayed with them, didn't happen...still at old rate, can't talk to customer service, never have 2 hours to spare waiting for an advisor.
    Don't believe a word they say.. obviously trained scammers employed.
  • Reviewer

    Graham

    Location

    Burbage

    Date

    22/04/2022

    Ratings

    Satisfaction

    1.00 stars

    Customer Service

    1.00 stars

    Speed

    1.00 stars

    Reliability

    1.00 stars

    Comments:

    The broadband won't connect to my phone. Im even in the same room as my router. 6 feet away. All I get is that I've got to buy an WiFi enhancer. It's not there responsibility. An absolute disgrace. The customer services is so shocking
    It's an absolute disgrace from top to bottom. People do not sign up for any shell broadband connection It's so poor. You never get what your paying for .I wish I had never moved to them . I've got consumer direct and trading standards on the case
  • Reviewer

    Jake welch

    Location

    Shropshire Uk

    Date

    22/04/2022

    Ratings

    Satisfaction

    1.00 stars

    Customer Service

    1.00 stars

    Speed

    1.00 stars

    Reliability

    1.00 stars

    Comments:

    Absolutely shocking service!! Please read the reviews on this broadband company before you make the mistake me and many others have made!! My contract started 3 months ago and I don’t even have router at my address. The have sent me 3 routers (2 to the wrong address and the 3 one is the wrong router) after countless hours and I mean COUNTLESS HOURS on hold and talking to customer service advisers they have yet to provide me with a service yet take £25 a month out of my account. I have threatened to contact trading standards and there response is ‘sorry to hear that’. I am told it’s impossible to cancel the policy without paying the full £280 contract.

    TAKE MY ADVICE AND AND GO WITH BT OR SKY FOR AN EXTRA £2 A MONTH!!

    Poor poor poor service. Should he embarrassed of themselves
  • Reviewer

    Christine Nelson

    Location

    Stoke-on-Trent

    Date

    22/04/2022

    Ratings

    Satisfaction

    2.00 stars

    Customer Service

    2.00 stars

    Speed

    2.00 stars

    Reliability

    1.00 stars

    Comments:

    Totally unacceptable service and internet connection. Customer service takes up to 45 minutes to speak to someone but unfortunately they don't appear to be able to help. Internet connection was lost for 3 weeks and I have switched provider. I'm now trying to explain the reasons and why I will not pay an early exit fee. My email address is not recognised for me to send a message, but it is on chat. Please, if you value your sanity, avoid Shell Broadband.
  • Reviewer

    John

    Location

    Belfast

    Date

    22/04/2022

    Ratings

    Satisfaction

    1.00 stars

    Customer Service

    1.00 stars

    Speed

    1.00 stars

    Reliability

    1.00 stars

    Comments:

    Its simply shambolic and any 5 star reviews are fake and being made by the customer service team. Avoid. They ignore you "resolver" complaints and are just woeful ive been trying to get a refund of £22 from Febuary. Shocking. I have contacted my solictior who is running a case againt them. AVOID!!!!
  • Reviewer

    Philip

    Location

    Braintree

    Date

    21/04/2022

    Ratings

    Satisfaction

    1.00 stars

    Customer Service

    1.00 stars

    Speed

    3.00 stars

    Reliability

    3.00 stars

    Comments:

    They don't reply to emails or complaints about end of service queries. Sent me a bill which I can't see, as account closed. They won't confirm receipt of router retained. They won't answer a query on the bill. The CEO has failed to help.
  • Reviewer

    Grant

    Location

    BEDFORD

    Date

    21/04/2022

    Ratings

    Speed

    1.00 stars

    Reliability

    1.00 stars

    Comments:

    Absolute garbage customer service useless slow speeds cuts out drops
    buffers on netflix getting 2.5 to 20gb speed instead of 40gb
    online chat a joke they cut you off
    phoneline given is now an answerphone
  • Reviewer

    Peter

    Location

    Southport

    Date

    21/04/2022

    Ratings

    Satisfaction

    1.00 stars

    Customer Service

    1.00 stars

    Speed

    1.00 stars

    Reliability

    1.00 stars

    Comments:

    What a complete joke this fibre plus broardband,keeps buffering, unreliable and customer service,what service.constantley put on hold and the tech team won't fix the problems.find a better company who have great service,reviews on here tell the same story rubbish and very slow broardband.
  • Reviewer

    Russell

    Location

    Plymouth

    Date

    21/04/2022

    Ratings

    Satisfaction

    1.00 stars

    Customer Service

    1.00 stars

    Speed

    5.00 stars

    Reliability

    5.00 stars

    Comments:

    Customer service is absolute useless. I was on the phone for an hour then cut off resulting in me wasting an hour of my time. Called again and still nothing for over an hour. Once you do get through to someone it is an Asian call handler I had to constantly ask to repeat themselves as I had no idea what they was saying. Moved over from Post Office Telecoms which were a lot better compared to this rubbish company.
  • Reviewer

    A Mack

    Location

    Northern Ireland

    Date

    20/04/2022

    Ratings

    Satisfaction

    1.00 stars

    Customer Service

    1.00 stars

    Speed

    5.00 stars

    Reliability

    3.00 stars

    Comments:

    Endless problems with the telephone line - eventually we were unable to receive incoming calls. Telephone customer service representative continually talked over me, not giving me the opportunity to explain what the problem was and was extremely patronising.

    I was a Post Office customer for years but the takeover by Shell has been dreadful. Am now in the process of changing provider.
  • Reviewer

    Haselor

    Location

    London

    Date

    20/04/2022

    Ratings

    Satisfaction

    1.00 stars

    Customer Service

    1.00 stars

    Speed

    1.00 stars

    Reliability

    1.00 stars

    Comments:

    This is the worst broadband provider I have ever dealt with. Avoid!
  • Reviewer

    Scott revans

    Location

    Ayrshire

    Date

    19/04/2022

    Ratings

    Satisfaction

    1.00 stars

    Customer Service

    1.00 stars

    Speed

    1.00 stars

    Reliability

    1.00 stars

    Comments:

    Where do i start
    Speed max is 20 mbps
    Emailed multiple times to complain. No reply.
    Phoned and Put through to technical. 1hr20mins im still on hold.
    Have now cancelled and moveing to new provider.
  • Reviewer

    Molly

    Location

    London

    Date

    19/04/2022

    Ratings

    Satisfaction

    2.00 stars

    Customer Service

    1.00 stars

    Speed

    2.00 stars

    Reliability

    2.00 stars

    Comments:

    Shell Energy is the worst company I have ever been with for Broadband Customer Service.
    During my contract they tried to upgrade me to Fiber "at no extra cost"
    When I pointed out that had I wanted Fiber I would have applied for it the guy replied but it's free.
    I then pointed out this would tie me to Fiber deals in the future if I wanted to move company.
    After going off to check he said yes it would.
    The guy said he would cancel the upgrade however I got another email saying that BT were unable to do the change over and it had been delayed by a week. I called and again they cancelled the upgrade.
    About a month later I got a message to say the upgrade was happening the following day. Again I called them to cancel. The guy could see the messages on the account and said he couldn't understand what had happened.
    I have now left Shell Energy so they sent an email to say they had asked for the Router back and not recieved it.
    They then sent a label via email however not having a printer I had to find somewhere to print it so took a few days before I posted it.
    They recieved the router well within their 30 limit yet 12 days after the P/O confirmation saying they had recieved the package I got an email to say they were charging me £35 as they still hadn't recieved it. I spent 45 min on the phone on hold to be told I needed to prove I had sent it. The credit which was due as I left halfway through the month has now been delayed as they added on the £35 charge to my bill & refunded it the same day.
    I called today to speak to complaints but the guy couldn't do much or put me through to anyone higher.
    I have given 2 stars for most things as I needed to give a worse score for customer service.
  • Reviewer

    Jean

    Location

    Kent

    Date

    19/04/2022

    Ratings

    Satisfaction

    1.00 stars

    Customer Service

    1.00 stars

    Speed

    1.00 stars

    Reliability

    1.00 stars

    Comments:

    Terrible service - a number of outages which made me decide to find another provider. Two months later I am still waiting for a refund from Shell despite numerous emails & chat. Their latest excuse not to refund me is that they are claiming I didn't return the hub, despite it being returned tracked. Useless "customer service". If I could leave ZERO STARS, I would. AVOID.
  • Reviewer

    Zoe Hodgins

    Location

    Tamworth

    Date

    17/04/2022

    Ratings

    Satisfaction

    1.00 stars

    Customer Service

    1.00 stars

    Speed

    2.00 stars

    Reliability

    1.00 stars

    Comments:

    Avoid. I moved to Shell Energy as the provider is was with said I couldn’t upgrade to ultrafast broadband but Shell Energy said I could. Shell said if I moved to them after a couple of weeks I could upgrade. Since I’ve moved over, devices keep dropping out, sky drops out every night so we can’t watch TV, the internet is totally unstable. I’ve rang customer services and asked to upgrade and they’ve said I’m on the highest broadband speed available. So they lied to me to get my custom. I complained about the instability and Shell said the problem is with me, but I never had this problem with my previous provider.
    I’ve put a complaint in about lying and the instability still waiting to hear from them. I’m really not impressed and will move away from Shell as soon as I can.
  • Reviewer

    Graeme

    Location

    Birmingham

    Date

    16/04/2022

    Ratings

    Satisfaction

    1.00 stars

    Customer Service

    1.00 stars

    Speed

    1.00 stars

    Reliability

    1.00 stars

    Comments:

    Awful customer service. I had no internet for a month. I had 4 unanswered emails and had to spend hours on the phone to them. They never called back when they said they would. Complete incompetence. Avoid!
  • Reviewer

    Lassy

    Location

    Wales

    Date

    15/04/2022

    Ratings

    Satisfaction

    1.00 stars

    Customer Service

    1.00 stars

    Speed

    1.00 stars

    Reliability

    1.00 stars

    Comments:

    When you see SHELL name RUN! RUN WITHOUT LOOKING BACK.
    Shell is one of the worst internet providers if not the worst. They give you a cooling off period so you can cancel the contract without any fees, but they will not provide working internet until the cooling off period is done, and when you see how slow and bad their internet speeds are and how customer service is bad, then you are stuck you can't leave because they will ask you a penalty fee that will make you cry. RUN RUN RUN don't look back.
  • Reviewer

    John

    Location

    Nottingham

    Date

    15/04/2022

    Ratings

    Satisfaction

    1.00 stars

    Customer Service

    1.00 stars

    Speed

    1.00 stars

    Reliability

    1.00 stars

    Comments:

    Couldn't recommend this company ever month chasing them for a bill was a post office customers before shall be looking for a new supplier full of false promises never get paper work just a nightmare each month will not admit there's a issue with the billing
  • Reviewer

    Jon

    Location

    Bristol

    Date

    15/04/2022

    Ratings

    Satisfaction

    1.00 stars

    Customer Service

    1.00 stars

    Speed

    1.00 stars

    Reliability

    1.00 stars

    Comments:

    What a joke. Don't waste your money. Drops out all the time, every 5 minutes or so throughout the day, making it impossible to work from home smoothly - even sitting next to the router. Seemed to get even worse once in our final month of contract since we told them we were switching to another provider!