Where do I start? Ordered the Fibre Extra 19TH December and paid my deposit. Getting concerned that I had not had a start date or router, so I phoned up on 6th January. JL hadn’t actually ordered the router nor actioned the order itself. Negotiated a months free broadband because of their negligence, given a written start date of the 17th January. On the 16th January again concerned that I had received no router, phoned again. Start date put back to 20th January, no router had been ordered. Customer service manually ordered the router. The 20th January arrives, router was delivered on the previous Wednesday 2 days previously. No phone. Phone finally went live at 2pm. Broadband not activated. After phoning again and explaining that the lights on the router showed that it was not picking up a fibre signal nor connecting to the internet I was told that it could take till midnight and that they would contact me when it was live. They did not contact me at all. Midnight came and went no broadband, lights on router same as before.
Phoned on 21st explaining I had no broadband. Cannot even access the router homepage. One hour spent with technical support, prompted by me to acknowledge that the router was probably faulty, and that I was not on the package that I contracted for. New router ordered. Transferred to another department, to determine why I was put on a different package and why was I not upgraded to the package I contracted for. Unable to discover why and unable to put me on the package I contracted for. Apparently internal system problem. I was mistakenly put on the basic broadband package and not the fibre package I contracted for. Says by text that they will try again on 23rd January. Now told that they have to order the fibre package from Openreach (could they not have done it when I ordered) and could take 48 hours to process then activate. Apparently my phone number says I cannot get fibre but my address says I can. News to me since I have had fibre with Sky and Talk Talk in the previous 4 years.
New router arrived 24th January, couldn’t access internet, fibre will still not be activated for another 48 hours. After spending almost 1 hour on phone to tech, finally accessed router settings through ipad in order to input the CORRECT password and username, that were incorrectly applied from JL. Finally on the internet, basic broadband, although I now have to wait to be activated for fibre, for which I have paid for and for which JL failed to order. Broadband in theory went live on 20th January finally accessed basic broadband on 24th January. Just been told that my fibre will not be activated until 1st February. Phoned last night 24th January to complain again they promised to phone back but didn’t. Absolute shambles of an organisation. I have never had so much trouble from a supplier as I have had with JL. Will stay with them for a year then leave.