SSE Broadband Reviews

The worst customer service.

Even after getting the confirmation of closing my sse account, the sse company carry on taking money and stole money from my bank account which left me in big trouble.

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  1 star
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  1 star

Avoid!
I am still waiting to be connected over a week passsed my transfer date! Takes ages to get through to anyone in customer service and when I do there is no resolve. How can companies get away with this?! If you purchase a product then you expect it to be fit for purpose. In any other area of retail this would be addressed and sorted. Disgusting.

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  1 star
• Customer Service
  1 star

I do not think it is possible to put into words just how strongly I am urging the reader of this review to not sign up to a broadband contract with SSE. Find a different provider! My connection was due to go live 3 weeks ago now, and I still have no internet. I have spent hours over the last few weeks on the phone to the helpline, and most of that has been on hold. Be ready to be on hold for about 30 minutes before you get through to anyone. Then you will have to explain the problem again from scratch. Then you will be told to carry out some new check on the connection, probably one that you have already been asked to carry out several times before. Sometimes they will actually be proactive and phone you, but the person will have information about a week out of date and will be mystified at the fact that the thing they have called you about has now already been checked. The latest update is that they want to schedule their second engineer visit. Why this is required when the first engineer told me that they had tested everything at my end and found no problems, no one so far has been able to adequately explain. They want me to take another day off work. Should I change provider? There is apparently a chance there is a network problem which would go with me to a new provider, but I was still tempted to do so for the chance I got a more competent help service.

Fortunately I have now discovered that I can get fibre broadband installed in the property, so I will be doing that. I pity anyone in this position who does not have that option.

To sum up, sign up to a broadband contract with SSE at your own risk!

• Satisfaction
  1 star
• Customer Service
  1 star
• Speed
  1 star
• Reliability
  1 star

The slowest and most unreliable broadband ever! When contacting them they say it's fine their end and don't know why it's bad my end! Useless!!

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  1 star
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  1 star
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  1 star
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  1 star

Internet outage is now a joke. 1 year ago, it was 1 a week, now it’s 5 times a day ranging from 5 minutes to many hours. Complained, and of course, no reply.

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  1 star
• Customer Service
  1 star
• Speed
  1 star
• Reliability
  1 star

This is the first time I’ve ever felt the need to leave a bad review but honestly this company is awful. The internet hasn’t got one day without at least one issue. Some days it would go off and not come back on for days. After repeatedly phoning customer services they had these two cracking bits of advice...1: take the fascia off the box and use the lead that way, we told them we have a crawling baby and that’s not a safe option and plus it’s a stupid option at that. 2: plug the laptop, PlayStation etc directly into the router with and Ethernet cable, which would mean us all huddled together in the hallway to be able to use our devices like the good old dial up days! Except this isn’t the good old dial up days it’s a time where you pay 28.99 a month for broadband and expect at least a half decent service. I’ve lost work, gone days without internet and still been charged on numerous occasions and at this current moment I’m trying to leave a bad review which took 20 minutes just to get on the page. Moving back to Now Broadband, they were brill. If you want a rubbish service that cannot go one single day without an issue and ridiculous customer service then SSE are the ones for you. If I could leave no stars I would have!

I had to ring twice before receiving my router. Then received router 3 days after my internet service started.
I then cancelled the contract having been advised by SSE Talk that no exit charges would be levied if I cancelled within my "happiness" period (60 days within service date). But they still tried to levy extra charges 1 month after my cancellation.
Also, after having called and emailed them several times, I am still waiting for the prepaid envelope they promised several times for returning the router for which they threatened a further charge. Talking to the complaints manager was equally useless.

• Satisfaction
  1 star
• Customer Service
  1 star
• Speed
  1 star
• Reliability
  1 star

Broadband intermittant.download speed 1.86.Try to call and hung up after 10 minutes on three occasions.Everything is just poor.Am trying to cancel.How do you do that when no-one will talk to you.Very disappointed.

• Satisfaction
  2 stars
• Customer Service
  2 stars
• Speed
  2 stars
• Reliability
  1 star

1st day broadband, had to call sse yesterday waited 25 mins to talk to someone. Had to call again today waited 25 minutes to be told i would have to wait in a q to talk to an engineer, after complaining i was told the engineer would call me back. Sure enough within an hour i got called back,I answered phone a robot voice told me what a valued customer I was then put me on the end of a q, waited a little while and gave up. I have just left post office, after 18 month cost went from £18 to £27.50 so changed but post office answered my calls within minutes i would recommend to anybody. Sse absolutely useless.

The whole service is crap.
Internet has to be the worst I have ever even seen
Customer service is rubbish as they just palm you off with excuses

AVOID!!!!
Absolute shambles of a company. Signed up to their 'Fixed and fibre' package, which was to include energy supply (electric and gas) as well as broadband. The energy tariff wasn't the cheapest available to me, but with the discounted broadband price it worked out pretty well. However I have now come to realise this was all too good to be true. I have now been waiting around 3 months for my broadband to 'go live'. This includes multiple visits from engineers and hours on hold on the phone to multiple people repeating the same story over and over and over. Every time I call they say 'we need an engineer sent out', then the engineer comes out and tells me everything is fine and tests it to make sure. Then I have to go back to SSE and repeat the whole cycle again. I am now currently on my 4th or 5th 'Go live' date with yet again no broadband. I could of went with another company and had internet in my property by now. I would warn anyone considering SSE as supplier to stay well clear. Not worth the hassle!

• Satisfaction
  1 star
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  1 star
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  1 star
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  1 star

SSE try to be helpful but speed is dreadful. Was better off with Plusnet but they put their price up too much which made me change.

• Satisfaction
  2 stars
• Customer Service
  4 stars
• Speed
  1 star
• Reliability
  1 star

Couldn’t ask for better customer service. There were problems, which were down to the wholesalers, Daisy, and I had to wait 2 weeks past my connection date, but this would have happened with whoever I went with. The difference was whenever I called SSE they were lovely. They gave me £5 off the first month for the inconvenience and I didn’t pay a penny till it was sorted. The connection is great, once the 2 week testing period was over and although I chose the standard broadband, not fibre, it has been perfect, even when watching YouTube and BBC iPlayer in a town house, the coverage is brilliant. I highly recommend them.

• Satisfaction
  5 stars
• Customer Service
  5 stars
• Speed
  5 stars
• Reliability
  5 stars

Haven't even been able to get started with SSE broadband. Good communication while you're signing up but doesn't extend past this. I was given a 21 day wait start up time, lengthy but fair enough. Date comes and goes with no notification. Get a call a few days later saying they actually cancelled the order because of an admin error but will restart it. 10 days till start date, that then comes and goes. Phone them up, "oh just another 4 days" with no explanation. Another 4 days past this, phone them up once again, "That data got changed again, it'll be another two weeks, nothing I can do".
I can deal with disappointing wait times but to not even phone, email, text me to say these massive delays are coming, unreal.

• Satisfaction
  1 star
• Customer Service
  2 stars
• Speed
  1 star
• Reliability
  1 star

worst broadband ever

• Satisfaction
  1 star
• Customer Service
  3 stars
• Speed
  1 star
• Reliability
  1 star

SSE - the worst experience I ever had. I was attracted to the low monthly cost, about 20 quid. However, the consistent signal drop for 30 sec to 1 minute renders Netflix and Amazon useless. I experience that loss of signal when banking on-line!
I spoke to them, they gave me a pep talk about "you live in a congested area " and nothing else happened. Well guess what SSE? The traffic will only continue to grow. I feel like they are still in the nineties.
Imagine watching GOT and the fly of the dragons are frozen ... Relaunch Netflux ... Go back to "Resume" ... :))) pretty cool eh?
My advice to everyone reading this: avoid SSE broadband like a plague.
Horrible.
They are either a bunch of incompetents or a bunch of cheap corporate mongers practicing "traffic management". Pay up a tenner more for anyone out there and have proper internet, proper service.

• Satisfaction
  1 star
• Customer Service
  2 stars
• Speed
  1 star
• Reliability
  1 star

The broadband keeps on cutting out. Also very slow speeds.
Had Sky before and wish I had stayed with SKY. Huge mistake to get SSE. AVOID

• Satisfaction
  1 star
• Customer Service
  3 stars
• Speed
  2 stars
• Reliability
  1 star

I had SSE broadband for about 4 or 5 weeks and speed seemed ok but noticed in the mornings I had sometimes dropped the connection. Then after about 7 weeks it began to get annoying. This never used to happen on Sky, plusnet, talk talk, all of which I had used successfully, especially Sky. Phoned customerservices and spoke to a very attentive Lucy who tried various things and I seemed to have a stable and fast connection for couple of days. Then it started dropping again. Lucy in the meantime recalled me as promised to check progress. It was acknowledged something was wrong and SSE arranged for Openreach to come and check my line out. They found no fault, but did update master socket. But low and behold I have had continuous service ever since. Lucy called me back again as promised to check progress and arrange for outage credit. All in all very happy, and fair dues, customer service very attentive.

• Satisfaction
  5 stars
• Customer Service
  5 stars
• Speed
  4 stars
• Reliability
  5 stars

RE what Greg Forrest, Consett, SSE 2019-05-11

This you wrote I have a few times and worse it seems this is the way SSE do business. They must be trained to do it this way.

'The Part of your post I refer to'

When i spoke to Rachel an arguement took place and i explained that if i had to pay the fee after all the issues that i wouldnt continue with SSE. She assured me i didnt have to pay any fees and the previous advisor was incorrect. She took no responsibility for any of the previous issues raised apart from the automated line complaint .A month later i checked my bill online and what do you know a £60 connection fee charge added to the bill , i rang straight up to try n speak with Rachel , she wasnt availiable and hasnt been ever since that moment and along with that she pretended as if none of what she said previously had even took place!

But you should know even when take a contract with them on the sales line. You ask something and in conversation ask something else they will over talk you in louder voice to drown what you ask until they finish talking. They always want and need to be the alpha it seems. Not that your competing why should you when you can end the call and get another provider. That is unless you have already signed up.

Do they also still talk through the whole contract which can take upto 2 hours to do. No other service does that and you don't listen either so what is the point. They go on and on and on bla bla f'ing bla yawn zzz !!!

• Satisfaction
  1 star
• Customer Service
  1 star
• Speed
  3 stars
• Reliability
  4 stars

Having just paid £96 to exit my contract early, I can attest to the fact that SSE broadband is not fit for purpose. By their own admission, I've never managed to get more than 8mpbs and I live in inner city Birmingham, so I can only imagine what it's like if you live in a rural area. Uploading anything is impossible, streaming is woeful and trying to use Skype or facetime is completely futile. It is simply not fit for purpose. Don't waste your money, go elsewhere. This from somebody who's decided to pay an exit fee in order to be rid of this cheap, shoddy, laughable service.

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  1 star
• Customer Service
  1 star
• Speed
  1 star
• Reliability
  1 star

I've been with SSE broadband for over 12 months and have been delighted. Never had a problem and over 30Mbps on their fibre system. Recently moved house and was particularly impressed. The changeover day between properties was agreed and come the day, I moved the router to the new property, turned on and there it was! No engineer required and well impressed. Would highly recommend

• Satisfaction
  5 stars
• Customer Service
  5 stars
• Speed
  5 stars
• Reliability
  5 stars

Very happy with SSE broadband, pay for the highest rate broadband, always have a connection, no nasty surprises on bill, and a lot cheaper than our previous supplier BT who price hiked mid contract. Very straight forward and they don't ever phone trying to up sell like talktalk used to.

• Satisfaction
  5 stars
• Customer Service
  5 stars
• Speed
  4 stars
• Reliability
  5 stars

Really good broadband service, been with SSE for 6 months now and not had any problems at all, instant connection, no drop off at any time of the day, and excellent customer service.
What more could you ask for?

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  5 stars
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  5 stars
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  5 stars
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  5 stars

For broadband do not waste your time with this company. There is a reason they offer cheap broadband and it is definitely not quality. Terribly slow connection unless between 11am and 3pm. Customer service teams always state they will look in to things and get in contact but never do then you play cat and mouse resolving issues. Should've kept Sky.

• Satisfaction
  2 stars
• Customer Service
  1 star
• Speed
  3 stars
• Reliability
  1 star

Utter rubbish.

There is a lot of network throttling during peak times, and of course peak times are essentially any time OTHER THAN 9-5, when everyone is at work - meaning you are ALWAYS throttled during any normal time of day - think abysmal streaming speeds, piss poor download speeds and shocking connection stability - online gaming is just a nightmare.

The 'Technicolour' router is the biggest pile of garbage on the market, whoever in SSE thought this was a good product to give to customers must have been swung full force at a wall as a baby. The connection strength is non-existent, I have zero/one bar (effectively no usable connection) in my bedroom, which is no more than 4m from the router, through two walls (only one structural). The router will also randomly drop out for absolutely no reason.

I only chose SSE as they were the only provider to offer a 1-month rolling, and since I get my electricity with SSE I got a decent discount. If you are not limited by needing a 1-month rolling period, DO NOT GET SSE - you will experience nothing but misery when dealing with anything internet related. If you absolutely must use SSE (for whatever ungodly reason), invest in an aftermarket router, probably something by Netgear - and use the Technicolour P.O.S as a modem only.

• Satisfaction
  1 star
• Customer Service
  3 stars
• Speed
  2 stars
• Reliability
  1 star

To anybody thinking about joining SSE broadband have a read of this and you will never consider using them again.

Nothing but problems ever since i ordered from them. Next door neighbours phone line was changed to SSE instead of my own line , took them 2-3 months to figure out what had even went wrong and finally get connected even after i had mentioned to them what the problem could be the adsvisor knew better than me and said the engineer would sort it out. Engineer never arrived twice , he turned up at the house the first time and said that he knocked and there was no answer so he left , i was told i would be provided with photographic evidence that he actually arrived at the right door but this was never provided , the second time he was given my mobile number to call me when he was outside but once again never called and just left. 2 days taken off work for nothing , not that anyone from SSE cared.

The next issue was my connection going on and off consistently about 20-30 times a day ruining whatever work i had to complete that day aswell as games and music i had been watching. For some reason i was advised to call the faults line 12 midnight by an advisor , when i rang up the automated line said i was in a Q to hold on and that my call would be dealt with very shortly , i waited on the line all night expecting for someone to answer and sort my connection out but nothing. The automated line told me to wait in the Q for an advisor even though the line was infact closed and nobody was there until 6am , another £20 vodafone goodybag wasted based on an SSE advisors advice.

Obviously a complaint had already been made by this point and next up was the manager dealing with the complaint Rachel from SSE. On initial contact she told me everything would be investigated properly and compensated accordingly. A previous advisor mentioned something to do with a connection fee of £60 being added to the bill as a engineer had to visit .When i spoke to Rachel an arguement took place and i explained that if i had to pay the fee after all the issues that i wouldnt continue with SSE. She assured me i didnt have to pay any fees and the previous advisor was incorrect. She took no responsibility for any of the previous issues raised apart from the automated line complaint .A month later i checked my bill online and what do you know a £60 connection fee charge added to the bill , i rang straight up to try n speak with Rachel , she wasnt availiable and hasnt been ever since that moment and along with that she pretended as if none of what she said previously had even took place!

• Satisfaction
  1 star
• Customer Service
  1 star
• Speed
  3 stars
• Reliability
  1 star

My internet connection would regularly drop out 5-10 times a week. Usually for 1-10 minute periods. While SSE customer service was excellent, the issue clearly lies in-house as BT never found a fault with the line. Perhaps another good example of an initially excellent provider (PlusNet) getting too bloated and not upgrading their service to cope with it.

Incidentally, switched to a competitor and haven't had a single disconnect in over a month.

• Satisfaction
  2 stars
• Customer Service
  5 stars
• Speed
  5 stars
• Reliability
  1 star

I have been an SSE customer for over a year now. The broadband package has been reliable, the speed as promised. I am most impressed with their customer service. Every time I contacted them whether to ask a question regarding my account or to switch tariff- I could not fault their professionalism nor the speed with which they resolve anything. I contacted them today after receiving a letter informing me that the package price will increase next month as my 1 year contract is due to be renewed.I asked to switch to another deal-lower than what I pay now and with the same benefits, which was immediately processed, no questions asked, no trying to sell any other products I might not want or wish to listen to an extensive sale 'pitch'. Simple and forward, 2 minutes phone call with a very friendly and professional call handler. I highly recommend this provider. Thank you

• Satisfaction
  5 stars
• Customer Service
  5 stars
• Speed
  4 stars
• Reliability
  5 stars

Only recently joined them. So far, so good. Kept my number and transferred from TalkTalk.
I am paying for 35MB speed and after 4 days the speed is 33MB (highest it has ever been with any provider). 10 days on and it is still stable.
Customer service is easy to get through and always speak to someone in the UK.
I hope the service stays the way it is, I have had far too many poor experience from other providers in the past so still a bit apprehensive.

• Satisfaction
  4 stars
• Customer Service
  5 stars
• Speed
  5 stars
• Reliability
  5 stars

So many huge drop offs in the evenings - from a promised 30Mb to 2-5Mb - with a family of 5 it's just rubbish. Counting down until I can change.

• Satisfaction
  1 star
• Customer Service
  1 star
• Speed
  1 star
• Reliability
  1 star

Really happy with my are fibre broadband package had no problems with it at all excellent customer service changed over to see broadband and home phone from Plusnet after terrible service also got cheap deal for 18 months also changed my gas and electricity supply over to see so all my managed by one company who look after the customers glad I changed to sse highly recommend them

• Satisfaction
  5 stars
• Customer Service
  5 stars
• Speed
  5 stars
• Reliability
  5 stars

It just didn't deliver as promised, though they tried to resolve it I just couldn't carry on with the slowness of the broadband. That may be down to the Bt line in or down to sse, I don't know. I have a better connection using the tether on my mobile data bundle..

• Satisfaction
  3 stars
• Customer Service
  3 stars
• Speed
  1 star
• Reliability
  1 star

The worst broadband experience I ever had. I have tried many : talk talk, BT, plus net, virgin, SKY during more than 20 years. Unfortunately SSE are by far the worst. My games are continually streaming even if no one else is on the WiFi, I am in a town with limited choices of providers at the present but I had BT which was great but due to the monthly package SSE offered I decided to go with them, mistake, wrong choice. I will soon switch back after 5 months been with SSE.

• Satisfaction
  2 stars
• Customer Service
  4 stars
• Speed
  1 star
• Reliability
  2 stars

Ok so in general I would probably recommend, I’ve got Fibre up to 35mbps and although it is fast the only problem is it’s not very reliable if you demand a lot from your broadband. I will average speeds of about 26mbps but it can regularly drop to about 19mbps but often as low as 9mbps; this would be fine if I didn’t require decent speeds all the time but a lot of reboots are needed to keep speeds up. All in all if you only use your broadband casually to watch Netflix etc I’d say it’s great but if you need it for more demanding things I’d probably steer clear.

• Satisfaction
  3 stars
• Customer Service
  4 stars
• Speed
  3 stars
• Reliability
  2 stars

The user name they sent with the package did not even work and we could not logon to the account to change or do anything on the first day.
What a crap service on day 1.
Might be worth going with a more reputable one as it seems their broadband service matches their rubbish energy services.

• Satisfaction
  1 star
• Customer Service
  1 star
• Speed
  3 stars
• Reliability
  3 stars

Avoid Sse at all costs for broadband. They cancelled my bt and gave me a live date. Put me online for two days then it went down. Phoned them to ask what was wrong. They said they put me on a temporary connection because my house wasn't routed for broadband. They promised to phone me back to give me a new live date. No phone call. Phoned them about 20 times and keep getting told lies. Still no broadband. I got a huge bill from Vodafone due to data usage so they offered me £20 which doesn't come close to the Vodafone bill. They say it will come on this Tuesday. Not holding my breath. Terrible.

• Satisfaction
  1 star
• Customer Service
  1 star
• Speed
  1 star
• Reliability
  1 star

UK based call centres are the sole reason I stuck with SSE.

Good internet speeds, terrible reliability. Constant drop outs for 1-2 minutes pretty much 2-3 times a day. Don't buy their lies either, this issue is with their broadband servers (or more specifically, the ones they hire/piggyback).

• Satisfaction
  2 stars
• Customer Service
  5 stars
• Speed
  4 stars
• Reliability
  1 star

I am with them for a year now and so far I am very happy. As an SSE customer, I've got a very good deal on fast broadband with a fixed monthly payment for 3 years. So I can have peace of mind and not stressing out and fighting for a good deal every year like I was with previous providers.
A few days ago, I had some problems with my broadband, and I was nicely surprised how easy it was to get in touch with the correct department. They were very polite, helpful and sorted out my internet connection very fast. I hope they will stay responsible as they are now, so they can gain more satisfied customers like me.

• Satisfaction
  5 stars
• Customer Service
  5 stars
• Speed
  5 stars
• Reliability
  5 stars

Ordered broadband on 24th jan now 22nd of Feb still nothing after loads of phone calls to no avail.
Was told to wait until next week
Avoid by all cost
They run threw bt’s network anyway so cut out the middle man

• Satisfaction
  1 star
• Customer Service
  3 stars
• Speed
  1 star
• Reliability
  1 star

I cannot comment on the broadband as SSE have failed to provide a service although it was supposed to be up and running on FebruarY 15TH. Our previous provider therefore shut down broadband and telephone on 14th. As a result we had no landline for 16 hours and have now been told our broadband will become available on Wednesday 27th.. I could go on about the number of calls I have had to make and the reasons I have been given for the poor service but the lack of service has impacted on work,communication and has been costly in terms of phone calls and searching for wifi devices and has caused quite a lot of stress. I find customer service polite and helpful but in the end SSE failed to provide the service we signed up to. This has not happened before with previous suppliers and therefore is very disappointing and not good enough.

• Satisfaction
  1 star
• Customer Service
  3 stars