699 Customer Reviews over 18 pages
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- Location
- Bristol
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2020-05-18
- Comments
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Probably the worst experience I've had with an internet provider. I normally avoid cheap deals with bad reviews but took a gamble this time, I wish I hadnt. We have had poor service since the start of contract and when contacting customer service, they tell us that they are providing the minimum contract speeds so nothng they can do, even if we are not receiving those speeds. My partner and I both need internet for home working currently, but we cannot both access at the same time. This has caused all sorts of problems for viedo conferencing, but NowTV are not inerested and when contacted, they again said its not their problem. Avoid at all costs!!!
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- Location
- BRISTOL
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2020-10-09
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after a bereavement I changed to your broadband. Your people were so caring & helpful. After a glitch installing it by only a couple of days all done really well. Just heard I will receive £75. for the delay. Such a surprise .how can anyone complain about your service. Not me so far.
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- Location
- Bristol
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2022-08-12
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Do not under any circumstances use Now Broadband. Genuinely the worst broadband I’ve ever used - so unreliable and has so many speed issues not even mentioning the two visits needed in less than a year. Have had to spend a fortune on mobile data to make up for it. Even when it works it’s the slowest wifi I’ve found in a major city in 2022 and I live alone too so there’s no excuse. Customer portal is a nightmare to use - only redeeming quality is the customer service workers. Counting the days for my contract to end
- Location
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- Location
- Bristol
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2023-11-09
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Absolutely tragic. I have never come across such awful service. No customer support whatsoever, can’t get hold of anyone and cannot cancel account as they keep charging me. I had to go to the bank to end it. Backward is not a good enough word. Be careful with setting up anything with amateur company.
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- Location
- Bristol
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2018-03-28
- Comments
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I saw the negative reviews on this site but decided to go ahead anyway!
So far, I'm glad I did. The Customer Service team in Belfast answers the phone quickly and is very helpful (a breath of fresh air compared with Virgin Media, my previous supplier).
Luke, the BT Openreach installer arrived 15 minutes early and got things going, despite it being a horrible cabling job in my building.
And so far, a week on, I'm getting the 37mb/sec broadband speed advertised, even at peak time, and with no outages. I couldn't be happier and even better, I'm on a 30 day contract so not locked in.
Of course, it's early days, but I've quite a bit of confidence in Now stepping up if things did go pear-shaped. I think any supplier will have horror stories where things sometimes go wrong, but again, they're so much better than the dreaded Virgin lot when it comes to quality service.
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- Location
- browne
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2019-08-02
- Comments
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stay clear. They are appalling.
Try the call centre number and go through as though you want to move....
Call us 0330 041 2480
You'll wait forever.
you've been warned
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- Location
- Bs16 9qd
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2022-01-13
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- Bucks
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2021-10-01
- Comments
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This was genuinely the most awful, stressful, harrowing experience I've had with any customer service that I've experienced in my life. My WiFi has been delayed for over a month, the engineer completely missed the first appointment and they expect you to stay at home for an entire day to wait for them to come (btw they might not even come). Just forget about it. Other companies are more expensive by a bit, but at least you'll actually get wifi at some point with them. If you try to leave, they tempt you with false offers which they never follow through with. One guy told me he'd call me as soon as my broadband went live to upgrade me, when I wanted to leave, but that never happened. Honestly they are just a bunch of scammers. Their internet is also slower than mobile data. Seriously don't go with them, save yourself the energy.
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- Location
- Builth Wells
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2022-04-30
- Comments
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I've used many ISP's in the past and work in IT. For some reason I decided to cheap out on broadband and went for NowTV. You definitely get what you pay for. Can't say anything bad about customer service as I've not had need to contact them.
NowTV provide possibly the worst hardware I've ever encountered and make it difficult for you to use 3rd party routers. 3rd party routers have to support DHCP option 61.
Initially the wifi was appalling. If you're suffering poor wifi, invest in a wireless AP or 2.
Also, the router itself. I'm paying for the full high speed and since moving in would get around 30mbps max. Since swapping out the rubbish NowTV unit for a combination of a 10 year old HG612 and an old Mikrotik router I'm seeing speeds of 55mbps download.
NowTV provide the worst kit ever!! Unless you're ok with replacing it all, go with someone else!
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- Location
- Burnley
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2024-03-13
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I give Now a zero rating for customer service and satisfaction, I have requested a "shift and lift" on the line into a property ( in other words to move where the line comes in) Now firstly couldn't understand what was required and sent a fault engineer and now deny they can order this from Openreach, who tell me only the phone supplier can order a line shift. Absolutely hopeless don't go to Now.
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- Location
- Bury
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2022-10-01
- Comments
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Signed up to change from sky to now tv for my broadband and landline at the start of August. Was given a date at the end of August that the swap would happen but didn’t receive a router and my sky kept working. Rang to find out what was happening and was told my order had a problem and had been cancelled. No communication to let me know this. I was then told they would be able to swap on the 16th September but I would loose my landline number so against my better judgment I carried on with my order. Router arrived but nothing happened on the 16th so I rang to cancel everything a spoke to a very rude guy who cancelled the order. Spoke to sky to tell them I wasn’t changing suppliers but was told nowtv had put a stop order on my line with open reach which they couldn’t stop. Spent several hours on the phone trying to sort it out since and the tonight my broadband and landline has gone off. Spoke to sky and open reach has disconnected it because now tv haven’t cancelled the stop. So now I’m left with no broadband and no phone and sky have told me they won’t be able to reconnect me for at least 14 days which is a problem as I work from home. The whole experience has been farcical and has left me out of pocket paying more for my broadband than my new deal would have cost. Sky have tried to help but now tv have been useless. Avoid them!
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- Location
- Bury st edmunds
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2019-05-25
- Comments
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The worst service . Always disconnecting and never sole the problem. Customer service lie to you just to hang up the phone . Treat customer as rubbish . Don’t recommend this broadband . Really mistake and my advice not to go with them . You will find stranger responses from call center
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- Location
- Buxton
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2023-10-27
- Comments
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Bad! Terrible! Not fit for purpose!
Not only is their broadband laggy and drops connection several times a day, almost all the time in a gaming session. The reach of the router is terrible! And as if all that wasn't bad enough, they take money from your account without hesitation, sometimes up to 3 times within a 30 day period! And if they take a payment complete off their payment schedule , and you don't have funds to cover it, they soon threaten to cut you off!
Definitely the worst isp I have ever had the misfortune of signing up to!
I'm currently trying to leave Now, I have been for the past 6 weeks, all the while they won't relinquish my landline to the next isp! Never have I ever had any issues swapping before, even the customer service rep at the next isp have said this is a regular occurrence with Now, my guess is trying to bleed customers for as much as they can! My advice would be to absolutely avoid this company, they're cheap for a reason! Worst company ever! Worse that Three!!!!
Trading Stanards & Financial ombudsman here I come!
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- Cambridge
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2023-08-19
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They suddenly raise the prices without notification or reasons. They are really bad at communicating. We have to call them every month for paying the fees because the website doesn't work even though we have a normal UK bank account. What a rubbish company!
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- Location
- Cambridge
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2021-09-10
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I was promised broadband going live on day 14,by midnight,it changed to day 17. Why is NOW even allowed to do a "digital"business if they can't even do this basic"switching on.in Japan,Korea,even Brunei,it takes less than 1day,in UK 17days????what kind of 5th world country is this
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- Cambridge UK
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2023-10-30
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I was offered one price, then left without broadband for almost 2 weeks, then told my offer had expired and I would have to pay a different price (10% more). I asked for the the automatic offcom compensation for the delay (as it sais on their website) and they knew nothing about it. They automatically forwarded me to "the relevant custom service department", which turned out to be at SKY, so they obviously couldn't help me because it's not even the right company. How can they be so useless?!
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- Cambridgeshire
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2023-03-10
- Comments
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NOW - MORE LIKE NEVER!
We have waited 8 months YES 8 months for this shambles of a company to sort our internet!!!
I would appreciate some help and a contact number for someone who can help us!!
This company are awful we phone up and hear the same thing - we’ve updated your file and then no movement - we are at our wits end!!!
We waited 6 months for a pole to go in and now just need to be installed!!!! Why is it so hard to get them to book an appointment to hook us up? We should be HIGH PRIORITY BY NOW!!!!!
The useless people in the phone can literally do nothing. There’s no transfer to another team or anything!!!! I just don’t get it!
Does anyone in here have a number other than the generic one we can call???
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- Location
- Canary Wharf
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2023-11-14
- Comments
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Lived on the isle of dogs next to canary wharf and Now was the only provider and charged a extorniate 20 pounds per month for less than 5 mbps. The connection was at less than 2 mbps and would stop a few times per hour completly. Called Now and had 3 engineers come and do works to no avail. Was given a month free.
I do not recommend this provider at all. The prices they charge for the quality offered is akin to robbery.
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- Canterbury
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2023-02-21
- Comments
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DO NOT USE THIS COMPANY!
I placed an order and duly paid the booking fee. I then wait until the activation date I was given but no router had arrived and no further communication from Now. So I call them, they had lost my order but when they eventually found it they discovered they had cancelled the order but could not tell me why. So I lost two weeks with no internet because they couldn't be bothered to communicate with their customer. They were also unable to refund my fee because they lost that order and another department handles refunds. After hours of chasing around I am still without broadband and my refund. This company might look cheap but they are not geared up for selling broadband. Avoid unless you want a raft of headaches and no actual internet connection. Completely and utterly useless.
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- Location
- Canterbury
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2023-10-20
- Comments
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i wouldn't even give then 1 star disgusting service wish i never went with them and i have only been with them for 2 months knew it was going to be bad when they said i would have to change my phone number broadband went live on the day but no phone line got in contact with them said my line was no good been with sky for 2 years never had a problem, so out reach came out after a week said it was my phone nothing wrong with my phone it was the cable they sent that didn't work my phone was working after that another month on broadband went down for 3 days on the phone said i had a fault on line again they sorted it or so i thought now yet again my phone is dead now when someone phones me its engaged how can that be phoned up yet again and an engineer is coming to my house as its my home line that not working which is a load of rubbish so i dont have a phone at the moment so have to wait till Monday 5 days without a phone so fed up with all this, then last night i have a email saying my broadband speed is to slow and if they cant sort it out i can come out of my contact after 30 days with nothing to pay for leaving early so i don't no what to do they dont know what they are doing and after all this they gave me 5 pounds for all the problems that they have caused do not have anything to do with this lot im so angry unbelievable
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- Location
- Cardiff
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2020-05-06
- Comments
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The worst broadband ive ever had. Rang them and they said the problem was the box. They sent out a new box. Now this box is causing more problems than the first. They have no clue what they’re talking about. Switching tomorrow. Pathetic LITTLE company.
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- Cardiff
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2022-10-26
- Comments
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I moved from Plusnet to NowTV in Feb of this year (2022) but truly regret the decision to cancel the service with Pluset.
I did it simply because I thought all ISPs were more or less the same and more importantly the costs were lower with NowTV which was the main attraction.
I bought a better router than the one that came with the NowTV package which improved the speed. However, speed is not really the issue here - the main problem I have is that the line keeps dropping with frequent outages.
To be honest, I have had enough and will be going back to Plusnet as soon as my contract is over as they are 10x better than Sky's low cost alternative.
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- Location
- Cardiff
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2022-09-17
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For many years I was with Plusnet but decided to switch to Now Broadband last January due to a price incentive. It was a big mistake in my opinion as the service has been comparatively poor with frequent dropouts. I often come home from work to find the Internet down with me having to restart their router (which is awful) to get things up and running again.
Will be leaving NTVB before the end of the contract even if it means losing some money (yes I am that desperate to change!).
In my opinion there is better out there so don't be fooled by price alone.
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- Cardiff
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2022-06-06
- Comments
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I have been so satisfied with the customer service from NowTV. Any time I have had to change anything or needed to cancel, it has been quick, easy and pleasant. The Wi-Fi itself has been quite unreliable but have had no trouble with speed or anything like that.
The 12 month package with Super Fibre was very good for students, the cheapest option we could find and generally worked.
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- Location
- Carlisle
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2021-11-17
- Comments
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Ordered online well in advance of moving as I expected to need an engineers visit. The website told me everything was already connected and I didn't need a visit. On my activation day I plugged everything in and was receiving Internet with no issues.
Two weeks later I was cut off. I called and they explained to me that actually I did need an engineers visit and they had emailed me asking for me to provide some dates. I gave them some dates but an hour after this I got an email to say my service had been cancelled. I called again and they told me I was too late and the order had to be cancelled, but I couldn't reorder until the phone side of the order was cancelled. It took them another week to do this and I was told it would take at least another two weeks from then to get me setup again.
They blamed the whole thing on Openreach which to be fair I can understand that a big part of the fault lies with Openreach, however as a customer I don't have any dealing with Openreach and I was totally dependent on NOW broadband to notify me of the issue and that I needed to advise them of some dates I would be available to have it corrected. Somehow they felt that a single easily missed email was sufficient for this.
Dealing with the customer service centre was difficult. After 5 phone calls I requested to speak to a manager because nobody could explain to me what went wrong. I was promised a call back on 4 occasions and never received it. I eventually received a call about 2 weeks after requesting it.
I was initially somewhat understanding of the issue and I was going to reorder with them as I simply wanted my Internet restored. However my experience was riddled with failures from NOW broadband and the confidence I had in them was lost.
I requested a full refund and this was paid.
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- Location
- Carlisle
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2018-04-20
- Comments
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Transferred from Talk Talk everything ok speed 37 instead of 1.5 so good but when I looked at phone they had given me a new number?I ticked on online form that I wanted to keep my number that I have had for 35 years as at the moment my disabled in-laws have social care and if there is a problem we are first call so I will have to try and inform everybody my new number!!!! Now say I ticked box to say I did not want my number? Does anybody know how to get my number back as it is causing a lot of stress.
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- Location
- CARNOUSTIE
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2023-03-14
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Broadband generally works well. Main issue is poor customer service. Repayment was not processed to account as it should have been(twice). Compounded by inaction on behalf of staff. Would struggle to recommend company because of this.
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- Central London
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2017-10-25
- Comments
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I would not recommend to my worst enemy. I switched to NOW TV from Sky due to them offering rolling contract while allowing me to upgrade my speed to 38Mbts. Initial set-up was easy and worked fine but I only got my old 10Mb speed. When the faster speed was switched on it complete cease to work. After 12 days and several OpenReach engineer visits I gave up and cancelled and set up with Relish.
NOW TV was never able to tell what the problem was or provide me with a plan for getting it to work. The only thing they would offer was to send another OpenReach engineer which would then take 3-5 days. Speaking to the OpenReach engineers, I am pretty certain that it is not technically possible for me to get the 38 Mbts...
Only positive thing is that their customer service has very short waiting times...so at least you will not have to wait long to speak to someone who cannot help you
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- Location
- Central Scotland
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2019-11-23
- Comments
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Just renewed with NOW Broadband. Price increased after initial 12 month contract. Before switching asked for better deal. Offered one less than my orig deal for same service.
Customer service was superb. Little bit of a wait after initial security check but it was sat afternoon. Pleasant, knowledgable... just superb. Top class.
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- Chapel En Le Frith
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2019-10-25
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- Chatteris
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2024-01-10
- Comments
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Waste of time!
Ordered my broadband and activation date. My order was cancelled because of no availability in my area. They didn't bother to tell me about it. Waited for nothing until activation day. Informed about order cancellation when I give them a call. JOKE
Thwn I was advised to order again different option, and end up same way in another 2 weeks time. Do yourself a favour and just avoid them.
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- Chelmsford
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2018-01-20
- Comments
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After being a Sky customer for 10 years I swapped to NowTV when I moved as they were unable to fit a Sky dish, it seemed sensible to switch BB at the same time... how wrong was I.
In 4 months I have made 10 calls to them all of which resulted in different responses and troubleshooting precedes (one involved me moving furniture and unscrewing sockets) I have had an engineer out twice and I STILL so not get sufficient speed to watch catch-up TV. They have admitted that there is an issue that they can't resolve but are refusing to allow me to terminate my contract early!
I will keep on trying but wouldn't want anyone to make the same mistake that I have!
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- Cheltenham
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2023-01-05
- Comments
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It is not possible to give 0 star unfortunately! With contacted them 3 weeks ago to get internet. We received 2 confirmation emails and a letter stating we would receive the box in the post and the internet would activate in 2 weeks. We then contacted them 3 weeks later to ask what was happening, as we still had no box and no internet and they simply respond that our ordre hadn't been processed !!! They can't explained why we received 2 emails and a letter confirming it. At least it happens before we are engaged with them, now we can find another provider...
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- Location
- Cheshire
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2021-11-19
- Comments
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Advertised at 63mbps, only guaranteed at 33-25mbp!! And, guess what, that's what you get.
The router is so weak the wifi signal cannot even get 6 feet outside of the room where it is without dropping to 6mbps.
Drops signal all the time at peak times, customer service do the usual round of, it's not us it's the line, engineer appointment, new router, boosters, separate router, TP links, tried them all.
Only thing that is worth congratulating them on is being better than Talk Talk!
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- Location
- Cheshire
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2023-11-06
- Comments
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Worst company I have ever had misfortune to deal with. Customer service is non existent. Broadband generally very slow. When Broadband went down it took more than 90 minutes to finally get a human on the phone. Every part of the troubleshooting sends you through interminable loops until you are disconnected at the end of each loop. The fault requires an engineer but they don’t work at weekends. How is it that I see engineers working at the box at weekends for other companies? Avoid at all costs.
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- Cheshire
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2023-03-09
- Comments
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Aabysmal currently cut off and being out of contract im kind of glad using my 5g phone connection which is faster customer services suck had no broadband in december awaiting new router tried to charge me 50.00gbp to send out router agrued got it free in jan told i would get credited for no broadband in december lied settle bill every month 27th feb 2023 paid bill no no service disconnected me so nowtv are now gone to another provider
Crap customer services
Horrible company from a 2 year subcriber
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- Location
- Chesterfield
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2022-06-13
- Comments
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Paying £20 a month for 70Mbps download and 19Mbps upload.
Whenever I have needed to contact support it takes about 30 seconds to get through.
We went through a house move, unfortunately this took 3 weeks longer than we were told it would, this is our only gripe with Now Broadband.
The broadband is reliable, we had an issue where it kept dropping on and off for five days, finally gave Now a call, they sent an engineer out within a few days and problem was fixed with the line.
Customer service all have English accents so it is easy to understand them.
Now hub 2 leaves a lot to be desired, no modem mode and no option to change the DNS provider. I've put my own router in the DMZ and using that to do the routing. 5G will provide a 400Mbps link to my devices, this drops off pretty quickly between rooms, using Unify AP-AC-LR to blanket the house in WIFI and have no issues.
All in all, I believe that I am getting a cracking service for £20 a month.
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- Location
- Chesterfield
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2021-12-23
- Comments
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Ordered NOW Broadband to replace unreliable Virgin Media for work, and at £20 a month, no contract, and included calls, it was good value.
Everything was activated the evening before, not a single hitch, not a single issue, and reliable 75 Mbps download, what's not to like? Better if customer service was available online not just by phone, and a hub with better range would be good, but at this price it's cool.
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- CHESTERFIELD
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2023-10-28
- Comments
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Been without broadband and telephone for over a week. This is an exchange issue, and not Now broadbands. It's an Openreach issue.
The reason for scoring NOW low is they are nigh on impossible to contact. The chatbot is useless.
They have failed to keep me updated/informed, as promised.
When chasing it up, the quickest time I've managed to get through to someone is 50 minutes. Just what you need after a 12 hour shift.
Each time you have to go through the full explanation and try and convince them the problem isn't at my end.
I'm "lucky" as I'm out of contract. Just keeping it going until my full fibre connection date. Once the exchange is fixed I guess.
Why not give a case/job number to people that have issues. And a direct number to query progress, rather than having to suffer the banal dross music? Then again is that the reason for the music?
In all honesty, in over 2 years, the speed/connection/connectivity have been better than expected, so that side is ok.
Let down by poor customer service. Lack of.
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- Chesterfield
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2018-12-02
- Comments
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If you're looking at NowTV broadband and you're thinking that it's just Sky with a different badge...think again.
They have the worst customer service of any company that I've ever dealt with. If nothing at all goes wrong you might be fine, but if you need help with something you're going to suffer huge frustrations.
For me, the issue was constant issues with my payment details. There is a fault on their system that meant they couldn't seem to keep the details on the account, they kept being wiped off. This resulted in harrassing emails telling me i was overdue payments and having my broadband cut off at one point.
The crazy thing is, whenever they tried to take payments from my account they were able to with no problems what so ever, but for some reason their system just kept deleting my details.
It's hard to explain in a short space of text how dissatisfied I have been with them, so I'll just leave it with this: 4 months into my contract I'm paying £125 to leave early. They're just not worth the ongoing frustrations.
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