Shell Energy Broadband Home Broadband Reviews

DO NOT use this company. you WILL regret it. Customer service is appalling, products are over priced and if you dare complain they'll flex their corporate muscles with intimidating threats. Besides the line ain't even theirs its a BT open reach line. You have been warned!!!

SHELL HAVE NO STAFF ITS ALL CALL CENTRE AND YOU PAY PER MINUTE TO SPEAK TO THEM, AVOID AS ITS A SCAM!

useless disconnects more than is connected what a disaster sign up if you like but you might regret it later on complained countless times I will terminate my contract and go else where why should I pay for a service I cant use.

Plugged in and worked straight away, excellent speed too. Impressed.

I will try and give a fair review and am only stating facts. I signed for 18 month contract because of the deal they were doing. Broadband speed was slow and disconnected intermittently. I was not home most of the time, but I required access to files sometimes when I was away and could not get access to them, so I knew the broadband was down. I went one month over my contract and the gentlemen that I spoke to was very calm (I guess he has done this before). He said because I have gone past my contract and that I wanted to leave and there was nothing wrong with the service that I would have to pay £15 I had never heard of that before, so I said no, I've given you an extra month because I forgot and you are going to charge me £15, for which I refused. He said that he would pass the debt on the to the debt collection agency and proceeded with my cancellation. He also stated that the services would be disconnected after midnight and they were disconnected at 20:15. I personally will not be using their services in the future, even if they are the cheapest. So please terminate your contract within the contract period at the right time or a £15 charge will be coming towards you, or in my case the debt collection agency. This is all written in the 28 page contract agreement, which you can find on their website.

getting through to speak to someone takes a minimum of 35 minutes and they charge you for this which is £2.85 each time. They do not do anything they say they will do, so basically avoid them at all costs!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dreadful organisation.Been with them about five weeks.Worst decision I ever made when I chose these jokers for my Broadband supply. Current speed is 0.11mbs. Struggling to open and read e-mails and as for videos, forget it. No landline now for two weeks, with little prospects of a solution.On your heads be it if you make the same choice as I did. AVOID AT ALL COSTS.

Rubbish ...... been waiting since 4 November
Don’t use this procuder

Was meant to of been connected to phone line for my broadband on the 28th of November did not hear anything by the afternoon after waiting in so phoned only to be told that they drop it been cancelled he would find out what was wrong and phone me back possibly the next day I did not hear anything by the 2nd of December I phoned to find out what was going on only to be told that they would connect me without any waiting but I complained about not receiving the phone call and not being kept in the loop customer service appalling I would write them as a zero

Broadband is so weak, I can’t even watch Catchup without constant buffering. I’ve never had a problem with any other provider before.
Can’t wait for this contract to end so that I can leave Shell.

I've contacted them on many occasions they are simply not interested, keep closing my complaints without it being resolved have asked to leave but they are ignoring my request

Has turned out to be good broadband for the money.
We did lose our connection one day but that was due to BT´s engineer working on various cable connections out in the road and broke our connection, but repaired it later on.
As far as speed goes, not to bad and for 16 quid per month pretty good all round.

We have infrequent disruptions of service but when it's disrupted it is 5+ hours where the connection disappears every 1-5 minutes.
They have sent out engineers to find the fault, concluded it wasn't local and left it at that without sorting the problem.
We are moving to a different ISP as this is intolerable.

This is an update to a previous review. The dropouts have stopped and the speed has stabilised at slightly higher than the previous supplier. I'm fine with the switch now. It looks like this in no worse than BT or Sky, just cheaper.

Completely and totally dissatisfied customer. I really wish I had read the reviews of so many others before I bought. Wifi constantly drops, customer service is shocking. I've had to call 4 times and spend an hour chatting and still nothing. I was sent an email of steps to walk through which included unscrewing the front of the broadband box on the wall. When I told the agent I was chatting with it was ridiculous to ask people to do that, he responded that it wasn't ridiculous. I'm so so so fed up and angry, I'm considering paying the fee to end my contract.

Rubbish. Frequent drop-outs and, strangely, can't connect to either Gmail or Yahoo e-mail services (if I connect using a mobile hotspot, these e-mails miraculously appear...)

Is just absolute trash never seen such a bad broadband, TalkTalk all the way

Absolute rubbish that’s all I can say. I have never had such slow broadband

OK. I went for the cheap 12 mth deal and now regret it. Switch over was smooth but there are PPP connection losses every day for a few hours. Next time I'll pay a bit more for reliability. Cheap but not worth the lack of reliability.

I can only agree with all the other negative reviews - AVOID!!! I had been with Virgin Media for more than ten years, but unfortunately had to switch as they don't provide my new area. Shell customer service is the worst, a bunch of useless call centre employees who are not in any position to make changes/cancellations etc. but forward your request again and again. They confirmed by email that they would push back my activation date, but I then received an email a day before original activation date, that my service would go online next day. I called them (finally getting through after 20 minutes) only to hear that my request had been rejected, but they couldn't tell me why. They also could have let me know instead of me calling them to find out (even though they had confirmed by email)! I then asked to cancel my contract within the 14-day period I was allowed to do so as I wasn't even living in my place yet. Request rejected as well! What a joke!!