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robinjfisher
Tuning in
2 years ago

Moved home and no internet for four days

Hi everyone!

First post and I'm at my wit's end.

We moved home on 22 November (Wednesday) and took the Hub 3 with us. Plugged it in at the new property, activated and solid white light but no internet connection. Spoke to customer service on that evening who booked an engineer for Friday.

The engineer tested the signal (all OK) and replaced the router. As we live in an area with poor mobile coverage, he couldn't do what he needed to do (?) but did speak to some colleagues and generally looked to move things along.

Anyway, sat here on Saturday evening still with no internet. I spoke to customer service on Friday evening ("matter being passed to engineering team") and this evening ("looks like a problem with the external cables") and have now explained my issue four times to four different people and received four different explanations.

So, I have a new Hub 3 with a solid white light but no internet connection. I exchanged some messages with the engineer who says "HIT errors are raised on the account" and hopefully it will be sorted soon.

I don't know what to do. I don't understand why I am being asked to provide the same information each time I call and why there isn't some sort of chain of accountability for solving my problem.

Ended up cancelling my contract but it will take until 11 December to get any other broadband installed so at the moment I am stuck on a 4G router with 1Mbps download speed for a family of 6.

Any suggestions appreciated including what magic words might get them to solve it.

Robin

  • jbrennand's avatar
    jbrennand
    Very Insightful Person

    You have cancelled the account and wont be charged.  So I dont expect they will do much.  A VM person should respond here soon and may advise differently

  • jpeg1's avatar
    jpeg1
    Alessandro Volta

    If it really is an external cable fault then it will likely take weeks to be fixed. Go ahead with the alternative provider.