TalkTalk connection and speed problems
16-March-2010
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Hello to anyone out there who can save my sanity after I foolishly took my TalkTalk account with me when moving house recently, partly due to the threat of a cancellation fee, but also because I am a carer for my husband.  We are on a low income, finance has therefore dictated our choice of ISP and TalkTalk are one of the cheapest.

I have had nothing but a history of horrendous problems with this company. I have found their customer service department lacking with advisers that sound hostile to the customer and hang up when they feel they've had enough of not being technically competent (I guess that's the only way out).  Not to mention constant bandwidth cuts, varying speeds and dropped connections which have just become an accepted part of the price we pay for being with TalkTalk.  The connection and speedd problems are a real issue when you rely on the Internet.

I am now in the unhappy situation of having a repeat performance following my recent move.  My go live date was the 5th March and I couldn't get connected so I spent all morning on the phone to TalkTalk, trying to understand the accent of some call centre adviser in a far away land who had no idea what what the problem was.  After being shunted from pillar to post for a couple of hours I asked for a supervisor, he was also hostile and told me it was myNetgear router and to call them.  I did and had to pay for the privilege, they referred me back to TalkTalk saying my user name and password was incorrect!

I have tracked my order tonight on their website only to find out that some clever member of TalkTalk's staff (the customer service people I spoke to today), has cancelled my order with them - not at my request needless to say!  Presumably there will be the inevitable cancellation charge now as well!

Can anyone tell me is there a place or person in the UK who is able to address all these issues?  I have no where to turn to and due to family health issues, we badly need the Internet.  Is there anyone who is able to bring this shocking company to task for the discourteous and incompetent way they appear treat paying customers.  My bill is always at least over £300 a year with them.  This is a great deal of money for us to find for a less than satisfactory level of service in return.

Connection and speed problems

I'd be grateful if some some knowledgeable and kind soul could advise me where to resolve this dilemma and mistake I have made, albeit done with genuine reasons?  Any input to that will empower me to sort this out, but that could also lead to these practises being stopped would be of great benefit..  Thanks to those patient enough to read my gripe and from personal experience, no matter how hard financial circumstances are I couldn't really recommend TalkTalk as an ISP.

By: Jane


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I'm with TalkTalk - my bills are a hell of a lot cheaper than with BT. But, I gotta say this, TalkTalk Customer Service is got to be the WORST I've every come across. Their UK call centres are not much better than their foreign ones, which are crazily bad. BT aren't much better - they use crappy foreign call centres too. If I could find a good telephone service provider, with exclusively UK call centres, and not having to wait and wait and wait after going through countless automated options, I would be with them like a shot!
*miserablemoaninggit  28-Feb-2010 20:37

 
I was on Tiscali; they're bad but TalkTalk are on a different scale.
*id  06-Feb-2010 12:17

 
Talk Talk customer service - 50 minutes on the phone to three different people only to be told that they have no record of us and therefore can't help upgrade my broadband speed. Funny how they take my money each month.
*Phil  26-Jan-2010 20:57

 
PS Goodbye Talk Talk, and as soon as I can, if not sooner!
*Alan  09-Jan-2010 09:38

 
I pay for a 24/7 service with Talk Talk. They don't seem to have the capacity to cater for the number of customers they've got. If only their service providing was as good as their marketing!
*Alan  09-Jan-2010 09:36

 
I too was contacted by TalkTalk sales asking if I wished to uggrade my account to TalkTalk Pro. I agreed and was told that the change would be completed within a couple of days. That was approx 3-4 weeks ago and to date still no change or indeed any contact by TT. I did ring a couple of weeks ago to ask the question and was told "Yes, they had tried to upgrade my account but were unable to do so and unable to tell me why". Good eh'.
*lionel 186  01-Jan-2010 17:38

 
After been promised and guareenteed that my broadband would be working correctly last friday the 4th dec it took 6 more calls with an estimated time on the phone of 2hrs 43 minutes to eventually have it up and running on tuesday the 8th dec .so I hope i'm going to be well compensated for the lack of knowladge that the so called experts have at talk talk .i got moved from 1 dept to another and I think all the people in the custermer service dept know me personally cos I got sick of giving them all my details. All I asked for was to be given an explaination of why I wasnt getting the service I piy for and all I got was a load of broken promises . i'm really considering cancelling my phone and broadband if this is the best you can do.
*Malc Costello  16-Dec-2009 19:47

 
talktalk broadband has got to be the most useless internet provider going, it takes ages to get a page on the screen and if you want to download anything be prepared and keep a pillow next to your computer if you comlain they tell you its your computer thats slow !mine happens to be a laptop and when I take it to my mates house who is with sky or even bt hey presto it speeds up again !so be warned. ttfn
*Anonymous  16-Dec-2009 18:24

 
you dont do alot of talktalk with talktalk broadband they are garbage.wish I stayed with AOL.sick to the stomach of speaking to people who can barely speak english.they are super crap
*boothard  15-Dec-2009 17:41

 
Having asked talk talk to 3 times to remove package I have found they still been charging me for it. When asked to have a revised bill have been hung up on pushed to another department and cut of.Still waiting now for a non exsisting manneger to call me wont hold me breath, best thing I have ever am going to do is leave as soon as they decide when they want paying for correct bill.
*Lynne  11-Dec-2009 16:47

 
I managed to get on Talk Talk broadband yesterday from 9.30am to 11.30 am without being cut off.Is this a record?Needless to say,after that things went back to normal-constant cut offs.People may be happy to know that with one less customer to deal with maybe their Talk Talk connection will improve-but somehow I doubt it!
*flann  24-Oct-2009 11:37

 
Thanks to all the contributors to this forum, and the related TalkTalk gripes - I've probably just saved myself lots of problems!

Having been phoned a fortnight ago by a very pleasant Belfast chap, trying to sell me TT's total phone and broadband package, I said I did not buy over the phone and would look into things first. His colleague rang back today, as arranged, and I was able to tell him that I wished to remain with my current providers, as there was so much anti-TT feeling from level-headed people that they couldn't all be wrong.

If TT employed their marketing firm to run their customer service side, they'd probably be OK!
*Lodger  02-Oct-2009 15:25


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