Appalling Service - New Customer

[#1]

25/01/14 - Signed up to PN Unlimited BB & Phone (12 months line rental paid upfront)
28/01/14 - Received e-mail saying phone would go live on 11/02 and BB 12/02
11/02/14 - Received e-mail confirming phone & BB is now live. Phone working perfectly but could not connect to the internet. Contacted PN to report issue. Was advised an engineer needed to visit. Engineer booked in for 13/02.
13/02/14 - Took unpaid half day off work to wait in for engineer. Engineer was a no show. Contacted PN to advise engineer did not attend. I was advised Openreach were closed at that time so I should expect a call the following day.
14/02/14 - Received phone call to say my BB was now showing connection (I couldn't check because I was at work but took his word until I got home). Hooray! BB now working after 3 days of no service. Was credited £1 for my troubles.
15/02/14 - 25/02/14 - Noticed i was getting frequent disconnects but put this down to the line settling.
26/02/14 - 28/02/14-  Decided to contact PN about the disconnects. After lots of line tests and phone calls I was advised there were faults on the line and an engineer would have to visit again. Engineer booked for 06/03.
06/03/14 - Another unpaid half day off work but at least the engineer turned up this time. Spent 2-3 hours at my property/cabinet/exchange but could not find a fault even after fitting a new face plate. Was told to contact PN again. Contacted PN and more line tests were done. Faults were found again and another Engineer was booked. This time I was given a weekend appointment for 08/03 (Saturday).
08/03/14 - Waited in all morning but engineer failed to turn up again! Contacted PN to advise the engineer had failed to appear. Was told the booking got lost in their system and I couldn't book a new engineer until 22/03. I requested to be put through to cancellations as I was disappointed with the service received. Cancellations advised me I would have to pay over £100 to cancel and also the 12 months line rental I paid upfront would be forfeited. I tried to explain the service I have received was appalling but he didn't want to know and refused to put me through to anyone else. Requested I get put back through to tech support. Once I was back with tech he advised me he couldn't book another appointment because he was waiting for some "notes" from my no-show morning visit. I was advised I would receive a phone call back the next day.
11/03/14 - I added a note to my ticket to say I have yet to receive a call back.
12/03/14 - As of yet I have not received a call back from PN. On a good note this is the longest period without a disconnect, 26 hours and counting!
I look forward to hearing from PN and other customer reviews.

[#2]

Hi andycamp87,
I'm really sorry to hear of the issues you're experiencing with the broadband service.
I have ensured that this is investigated today and a member of our Faults team will be contacting you regarding this.
I'm sorry for any inconvenience caused and I hope this is resolved for you soon.

[#3]

I am in agreement about poor customer service, i thought i was moving to a professional outfit who cared about customer service.
seem they spend too much on advertising and not enough on wages to get decent staff.
I ordered phone package and broadband, they managed broadband but forgot the phone package, hence i have a bill with bt which i was  not expecting as i was supposed to be on plusnet inclusive calls etc.
then they still have the cheek to take out another months money after saying they wouldn't!
my 1st month and a bit is not a happy one, for 2 pins i would cancel contract and go back to BT. anyone reading thinking of changing  to plusnet? think long and hard looks like better service and deals on BT.
See if their poor service breaches your contract of what is expected, then ask for compensation, they should be giveing you money not threatening to charge you for cancelling a poor service.

[#4]

Hi Linn. Thank you for escalating the issue, as promised I received a phone call from one of your colleagues the same day. Saying that I should not have to come on the forums and complain just to get my problem resolved.
Anyway my situation as of today is this:
13/03/14 - Received message to say an appointment needed to be made. I replied advising that a weekend appointment was required as I could not afford to take another day off work.
14/03/14 - Received a reply to my previous message saying a weekend appointment was not possible as there were none to book ( What? Ever?). Was offered a "gesture of goodwill" for £25 because of the missed appointments (Did you know PN get paid £45 by Openreach if they fail to attend? This means they have pocketed £90 because of my misfortune). I requested a weekend appointment again and if they could not provide me with such an appointment they are to terminate my contract at no expense to myself and refund my line rental paid upfront.
I should note that still to this day I receive frequent disconnects.
garry2003 I'm sorry to hear you made the same mistake as I have. I wish I had come on these forums before signing up because by the looks of things we are not alone!

[#5]

In PN defence.
They are, as all ISPs are, at the mercy of OpenReach. OpenReach will not notify PN of any missed appt. until the DAY AFTER the visit when they send notes through. Therefore PN have no advance warning of a no show and the first thing the often know is when the EU calls to complain.
PN, talk to wholesale who book the OP Engineer who may or may not visit. From 4 months of Wholesale and OP incompetence i understand your frustration but it's not always PNs fault.

podman

[#6]

Why should plusnet and other ISP's push hard for any change? They get a nice little cash earner for all the missed appointments.
I bet if the missed appointment money went direct to the end customers we would be suddenly deafened by the noise of complaints from all ISP's about OpenReach and the like.
So I think it's entirely plusnets fault.

[#7]

I can only point my finger at PN because it is they who I have a contract with and not Openreach. I think billnotben hit the nail on the head but not wanting to steer this thread off course I shall say no more.
Anyway it is now 16/03/14 and still no contact from PN. The disconnects still persist!

[#8]

Good luck on the next ISP, if you have a fault this will follow you wherever you go 

[#9]

thesawdust IF PN allow me to terminate my contract then I will be moving to Virgin Media which uses a completely different infrastructure.

[#10]

Indeed - just make sure it is their own coax based "fibre" - if they use your existing copper then you *may* be back to square one. I've seen VM promise customers "fibre" in areas which don't even have their infrastructure (myself included) - one of my friends ended up taking them to court over it as they messed up his internet/phone etc and left him with no broadband or phone.
When it is running though it is a pretty good reliable system

[#11]

I can see that your ticket is back with our Support Team who will respond as quickly as possible.

[#12]

20/03/2014 - Finally received a response on my ticket. They have re-raised the fault with Openreach.
I am still waiting for a date for an engineer to come. I've also been told they cannot promise a weekend appointment and that I should try to be available during the week. What cheek!

[#13]

Wow ! That's a seriously cruddy connection !
It almost looks as if you've got some electrical interference, possibly a street light or similar that kills your connection when it gets dark.

[#14]

Update - Still not resolved.....
23/03/2014 - Contacted by PN. They advise that for the next few evenings I turn off the WiFi and ensure the router is away from any other electrical devices (which it never has). I do as I'm told yet the problem still persists.
26/03/2014 - Again contacted by PN to say they realise the disconnects are still happening. This time a new router is sent out.
27/03/2014 - Router received and plugged in immediately. Still received disconnects that evening.
02/04/2014 - Contacted by PN to advise that they would need to send out an engineer. No weekend slots available so I am forced to take ANOTHER half day off work unpaid.
03/04/2014 - Engineer arrives (very helpful and understanding man). Does the usual tests and finds no faults. Installs a RFI (I think thats what he called it) filter and had my SNR set higher. Was advised this would reduce my speed but help with the disconnects. Speed dropped from 9mb to 7mb (no biggy but more than I expected). That evening I didn't receive any disconnects and was beginning to be hopeful.
05/04/2014 - Disconnected! Noooooooooo!!!!!!! My hopes are dashed! Too late to contact PN so I call the next day. I decide to monitor my connection over night using pingplotter, results below.
06/04/2014 - I contact PN, explain the whole situation and the guy does a line check. He tells me I need an engineer visit. I ask if I will be reimbursed for having to take another half day to which he bluntly replied "No".  I decide I'm just so fed up with all this now that I want to cancel, I ask to be put through to cancellations. The adviser explains they are closed on Sundays! I stopped the call right there before I said something I would regret.
What I really can't understand is why I only started having this issue from the day I switched to PN. Surely if there was a fault on the line or some sort of interference it would have also affected my previous connection?
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I should note that as of 8:00AM the internet was in use so that explains the increase in ping times.

[#15]

Who was your previous connection with ?