Vodafone Home Broadband Reviews

Avoid like the plague. Mis-sold a contract they could not deliver, lost my landline number 4 times and had to have different ones, cut off my internet. Now after 3 MONTHS they have said they are unable to get me a landline number as they have used them all up. So no landline or internet for 3 months. Now have to go somewhere else!

The citifibre kids who came out only knew one way to install so no options were discussed for installing the equipment. It's less than ideal in a front bedroom on the middle floor in a room i seldom use. It's also impossible to get a wired connection from there so I'm reliant on a poor WiFi router. The Vodafone router is poor, at best. You'd hope that with 900Mb to play with you would get more than 70-80 at the wi-fi, in the same room, but no. Occasionally it goes above 80, into the 150's but not often. 1 floor up this page is struggling to load now. A friend once had gig fibre and he was getting 800+ on wi-fi... Not so here, which means that the fibre was probably broken on install and the router isn't good at dealing with it.
Poor. Stay away.

Terrible. Had this now for over two weeks, device has not yet actually been activated. Having to make do with a back up dongle. Apparently it’s a problem at the city fibre/open reach end but can’t really get an answer as to when it will be fixed.
AVOID!!!

After nearly a 3 month delay to activation of my service I took comfort that Vodafone was part of the broadband compensation scheme. This may be the case but they will use every trick in the book to not honour what you may be entitled to.

It's now 4 months since my service was activated but I'm yet to receive anything on compensation. Every month Vodafone agree what I'm owed but never ever apply it and continue to bill me. This is the most frustrating company to deal with, please please avoid. I've every correspondence backed up but they still will try to avoid paying you and when you think you've it sorted the bill lands in and they pretend not to know anything previously. Poor poor service

I would give 0 if available as an option.
overall satisfaction: 0, no internet for 4 weeks.
customer service is useless, and they do not know what they are talking.
Broadband speed: this is a joke, no internet so 0 speed.
Broadband reliability: I would give 100 as it is 100% consistently no internet, so VERY RELIABLE

Don’t trust Vodafone + CityFibre on “gigafast” internet.

I switched from Virgin to Cityfibre due to assurances that it’s reliable from
trusted friends, and the promise of symmetrical upload and download speeds.

This was a huge mistake.

Installation was supposed to be Monday 26th September. I cancelled Virgin that day and cut the cable so the engineers didn’t need to drill another hole in the wall. Then they said there was some sort of “gap” in the cabling further up the street to the cabinet, so it couldn’t be finished. No idea what the issue was, but whatever. It took Cityfibre until yesterday, Friday 7th October, to send an engineer out to blow the cable. I was promised that it would be arranged “within the next 10 days”, which seems mean “we’ll bother to call you to arrange the visit exactly 10 days from now, then the visit will be at some point after that”. That seemed to work, and the lights on the ONT are all green.

But the internet is STILL not connected. The Internet light on the router is flashing red indicating it cannot be authenticated at Vodafone’s end. It was doing this all day yesterday. I wasted an hour on the phone to be told “everything is done our end, it can go live any time until midnight” even though it was patently obvious it would not magically fix itself at 2 minutes to midnight.

Quelle surprise, it doesn’t work this morning either. I have wasted another hour on the phone to Vodafone, only to be told that it is something Cityfibre need to fix, and they may need an engineer visit. But they’re shut on weekends, so I need to wait until Monday

I have been 12 days without broadband, relying on the 4G backup dongle. I have had to waste HOURS on the phone to both Cityfibre and Vodafone to find out what’s going on. And now it will be 14 complete days without broadband, assuming they actually fix it on Monday, which is seeming increasingly unlikely. No doubt I’ll be waiting another 10 days from Monday for the Cityfibre engineers to bother looking at the appointment system and scheduling me in. I am not even convinced it’s Cityfibre’s issue here, as the connection test the guy did to the ONT yesterday worked, it’s just the Vodafone authentication that’s not working. It’s definitely not the cable or the router hardware, as I’ve tested my own router (with the correct PPPoE credentials I was provided by Vodafone) and other cables.

I asked Vodafone to just try resetting the PPPoE credentials, as based on other forum posts, this seems to be the solution. They flat out refused and said “the problem is with Cityfibre”. This would fix the issue within minutes, but they’re unwilling to even *try*. This constant buck passing and refusal of both sides to accept any responsibility is absolutely ridiculous.

Don’t bother upgrading to Cityfibre through Vodafone if you get a circular through your door promising fast speeds, it’s probably not going to work and they’re not going to expend any effort whatsoever trying to fix it promptly. When it does eventually connect, I’m fully not expecting to get remotely close to the advertised speeds.

Signed up for Fibre 500. Given switch over date of 30 September. Wait in all day, nothing. Finally got through to customer service to be told don’t worry engineer coming today- total lie. Next day current provider stops service. Call Vodafone who day they need a multi skilled engineer to visit and they didn’t cancel previous provider. Called previous provider who told me yes Vodafone took over on 30th. Back to Vodafone , this time they admitted taking over the line. Waiting now for a site visit. No engineer been near property. On phone again to be told will update me on 15th! Two weeks with no internet. Having read reviews about speeds on here think I will cancel. They have taken my money with no capability to provide the service. Dishonest .
AVOID VODAFONE

Excellent service and speed, setup was pretty much plugged and played, the apps fantastic, and I never had to do a thing with my existing provider to switch.

Signed up for 12-month sim only contract in January. So this is a contract right for the sale of services right? So it should stay at £12 per month for the term of the contract? But in April, up goes the monthly fee to £13.11 with no warning. Noticing this, I called customer service just now to explain and the adviser was most rude and un-understanding. Apparently there will be a £50 charge to leave the contract now, or wait until next January! "Oh it's all in the terms and conditions" apparently! That's not what I was told when signing up, and not what I consider to be fair or equitable. Vodafone should perform their side of the bargain for the agreed fee, and if they decide to change the fee I should be able to pull out. Appalling - Avoid Vodafone at all costs

avoid this dodgy company! The reality about all Vodafone services: I've signed up for full fiber with Vodafone first 30 days it was perfect 130+ Mbps after that is dreadful most of the days I can't even watch a movie on Netflix, contract says minimum speed 50mb which customer service told me it's on a cable connection for only one device, even with a cable connection best I've seen was 44mb then I wanted to cancel the contract and they told me I can't do that only if I pay the remaining 35 months contract .... Same thing with my phone where everything struggle to work as you will expect
Very poor overall

Vodafone is truly criminal in its operations. They do not supply what they promise in their contracts and there is no recourse to fix the situation;Avoid them entirely;avoid;avoid;avoid;avoid;avoid

Vodafone have to be the most incompetent company I have ever had the misfortune to deal with. Here’s why;
Order accepted by Vodafone 12/08/22 with an advised installation date of 07/09/22. Not ideal but ok, I’ll live with no internet for a week or two after Virgin removed.
Morning of 07/09 arrrives with no confirmation of time etc, so I call to check. Despite taking a day off work to ensure they are able to install, I am advised it won’t be this day, but the following day. Patience now being tested.
Next day, nothing.
After numerous phonecalls, Vodafone finally admit they have no idea when I’ll be connected.
Eventually, a week and a half later, they arrive to install. Too late, I have returned to Virgin, who have been excellent in reinstalling.
A lesson learned, Vodafone broadband is a shambles of a business.

Apparently I’m getting great broadband speed, but I don’t think the Wi-Fi router can handle that many devices as whenever I’m streaming TV it constantly buffers. I’ve tried all of the recommendations Vodafone have for improving the situation and none work. Even ended up connecting the TV by the ethernet cable and still have problems. I Don’t think the router can handle that many devices compared with the one from BT which was fine. Wish I hadn’t switched to Vodafone.

Customer service for any issues are absolutely pathetic

The broadband itself it OK

But if u ever have the misfortune of rining customer service, you will want to kill yourself and them by the end of it . The staff (multiple) are so poorly trained that they don't know what they are saying or doing

Advertise in the 60+ MBS range, can only provide 8mbs.

Random drop offs very common. Since they refuse to acknowledge there's a problem it must be business as usual for them to provide such **** service.

Do NOT buy from Vodafone. Any money saved will be paid back in absolute frustration

One of the worst broadband I ever had… rubbish customer service… always telling you to reboot, restart… not helpful at all.. have been with 6 different providers in six years… sky, nowtv, talk home etc…. they always say equipment is faulty… have never had any issues with previous providers… unfortunately stuck in a two year contract

Ten days and still no phone trade in money,,, signal here is seriously bad too..

Line slow and dropping. i.e. Was a ping of 14ms and speed of 60 meg. Now a ping of 30ms and a speed of 35meg
Used the vodaphone diagnostics tool which diagnosed a problem.
Received a phone call from an 'engineer'who said my problem would be solved by pugging directly into the bt socket faceplate.
Told him I'd done that three days ago.
He then replied my speed was not below the minimum contract so they would do nothing but to ring them if I was still having problems.
So they rang me because they knew there was a problem and because it wasn't an easy fix they will do nothing.

Disgraceful COMPANY. Absolute shambles. Telling lies, letting us down, telling even more lies...disgraceful....

Where to start ! Hours waisted trying to get a straight answer from Vodaphone. We changed to their fibre package, today the openreach connected us took out old copper cable did checks and said e would be activated in a few hours. When this did not happen contacted Vodaphone iniatially they said there was a fault on the line and blamed openreach, I asked for details on when this fault was reported but none were forthcoming, then I was told cables may need still to be pulled through, I explained this also had been done. Eventually the only firm response was that I should humbly wait till 8 September when Vodaphone can activate me, today is the 3rd so five days without landline, or internet !!! Why they booked an engineer in to do the work and disconnect my old internet 5 days before new hub is activated I do not know. So frustrated and we have not even gone live yet!!!