John Lewis 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 John Lewis Broadband.

Recent Customer Ratings for John Lewis

  • Satisfaction
    2.2 stars
  • Customer Service
    2.5 stars
  • Speed
    2 stars
  • Reliability
    2.3 stars

Based on 100 customer ratings since 2021-09-18 (Show all time ratings)

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Ratings are left by users of our speed test as well as by reviewers. Recent star ratings summarise the last 12 months of ratings or the last 100 ratings placed, whichever is largest.

806 Customer Reviews over 81 pages

  • Reviewer
    Location
    NORTH CERNEY
    Reviewing
    John Lewis Broadband
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      2 stars
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    DIABOLICAL CUSTOMER SERVICE!
    Over the last week I have had cause to phone John Lewis Broadband helpline on numerous occasions and have experienced response times ranging from 25 minutes at the best to 50 minutes at the worst. How John Lewis can equate this with their customer service values baffles me.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Southampton
    Reviewing
    John Lewis Broadband
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      2 stars
    • Reliability
      2 stars
    Comments
    I wish that I'd read this site before signing up to JL Broadband....like others I followed the "Which?" guide about JL...not reliable advice at all, very unusually for "Which"? From wrongly quoted packages/ speeds/ failure to provide the agreed email address/ broken promises/ long waits for customer service/ to my password not working (twice) I'd give John Lewis Broadband "no stars" for satisfaction if I could. Hugely disappointing; I was quite wrong to assume that the excellent reputation of JL would apply to their broadband service...to be avoided unless you enjoy being continually disappointed.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Leicester
    Reviewing
    John Lewis Broadband
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    Absolute disaster thought I was going with a John Lewis product but turns out that John Lewis Broadband is a seperate company and what's worse JL don't care if they give poor service and turn a blind eye. It is impossible to escalate a complaint. So far we have been cut off, missed appointments, super slow fibre and a faulty phone line which I feel will never be resolved. The icing on the cake is that one of the engineers broke my front door. John Lewis and JLB say it's nothing to do with them so we have now got to deal with BT who frankly could care less. I feel that the hole thing is a breach of trade descriptions by John Lewis.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Laughton
    Reviewing
    John Lewis Broadband
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      2 stars
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    Scrape away the thin veneer of John Lewis and you have BT (which owns PlusNet, which runs JLBB). Awful speed, awful service when I moved. Awful service when I first signed up over a year ago. OK, they are nice on the phone but that does little to hide their incompetence.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Lanark
    Reviewing
    John Lewis Broadband
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      2 stars
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    Awful. It took 6 weeks and many phone calls to get it set up. They said the phone line needed to be reconnected, but this turned out to be true. It didn't seem to work all that well, but at the end of September it started cutting out and off. We wrote to them several times and have also phoned. Their latest reply is to say there is nothing they can do. So we are sending it back pdq.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Cardiff
    Reviewing
    John Lewis Broadband
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      3 stars
    • Reliability
      3 stars
    Comments
    When I moved house I decided to switch from sky to John Lewis Broadband Service based on the Which review. It has been an abysmal experience of customer service. It takes about 30-40 minutes to get through to them by telephone. Unfortunately the online query service doesn't seem to really work in the way it should in that my queries just languished with key parts of the message being ignored. I only managed to get results when I rang through to John Lewis complaints department and stressed that I had got nowhere with them and it was they who chased the query. If I had not have done that I have no idea who I would have ever got the problem resolved! I would never recommend.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Minety
    Reviewing
    John Lewis Broadband
    Date
    Comments
    Absolutely shocking, as with other disgruntly customers, I read the Which report and aswell as the JL brand, thought that they would be better than BT - how very wrong I was, an utter disaster, makes life working from home impossible. John Lewis should remove their brand name from this immediately as it will ruin ther previously good record of excellent service. This service is a disgrace.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    dorset
    Reviewing
    John Lewis Broadband
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      3 stars
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    TERRIBLE experience. Had to chase to get it set up again and again. Finally live and 3 days later they "accidentally" cut me off - no phone no broadband! The support line has a wait time of minimum 30 mins but usually longer and I held for ages on 4 separate occasions. They couldn't reinstate the line for over a week due to their error. I've asked other providers and it will cost £59 to reinstate my line and I have to have a new number too - unbelievable inconvenience. Worst of all they just didn't care less. So now I have no BB for another 7 days!
    Don't risk it with JLBB until they have got their act together!
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Ringwood
    Reviewing
    John Lewis Broadband
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      2 stars
    • Customer Service
      2 stars
    Comments
    Changed to JL after reading Which review. Wish I had stayed with BT. Even though their customer service is abysmal and pricey at least their broadband speed was reasonable. JL is dire. Don't switch!
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Birmingham
    Reviewing
    John Lewis Broadband
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      5 stars
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    Being customer for 20 days and was totally disapointed, the customer service is good, nive people kindly speaking and talking about the weather and other things, however didnot signed the contract to chat with them.

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