TalkTalk Outage in Paignton, Borough of Torbay, England

@danslee @virginmedia That’s shocking customer handling Dan. If it’s any help I’ve actually found the guys @TalkTalk pretty good especially on tech issues around broadband.

.@TalkTalk NEVER listen to what you are saying to them. It now looks as if I will have to sue @TalkTalk for the negligence of their engineer in disconnecting our sockets unnecessarily. Aaaarrrggghhh!

So two number changes later, we no longer use the landline much. We’ve now got no extension sockets despite not ever having a problem before. We’ve spent hours talking to @TalkTalk but there’s one big problem....

.@TalkTalk then refused to send an engineer out to fix the damage they had done. They are insisting on me sending another crappy router as apparently they cannot test the line (despite saying at the beginning of all this that their tests had shown a problem with our wiring.)

The problem is that you cannot trust @TalkTalk. They lost our data to a plague of Nigerian hackers who pestered us daily. Then they gave us a new telephone number which was from another customer whose data had been lost.

I then spoke to a fault manager who also said the problem was my router. I told him that the fault was with the external BT Openreach wiring. I plugged in the crappy Huawei @TalkTalk router and lo and behold there was an external fault.

I tried @TalkTalk’s ‘live chat’ to explain that their engineer had decimated our house wiring but I was then told the problem was my router. (Lesson to self -Do NOT use live chat)

He then pronounced that he had ‘improved’ the speed and left saying it would get better still in a couple of days. The problem was that there was no change - other than courtesy of @TalkTalk we no longer had working extension sockets.

Now I use my own router rather than the dodgy Chinese one supplied by @TalkTalk. I was also fairly confident that there was no problem with our internal wiring but the ‘engineer’ proceeded to cut the wires to all our internal sockets.

We waited in for the engineer. Surprisingly he turned up on time. He said that he was here to fix the ‘bridge tap’ which was all he did. @TalkTalk said there was a problem with our internal wiring.

It started with @TalkTalk trying to be helpful. Their “tests” had detected a fault with our line - so the email said - and they would send an engineer free of charge to fix it.

If you have ever suffered a Broadband fault you will have some idea of the hell that is @TalkTalk customer service. A thread on how not to do things.

@TalkTalk I’ve reported it numerous times and have put in a formal complaint and still no internet. I think as I was the last connection put into the exchange when everyone gets home my internet disappears. I have spent hour upon hour trying to sort this and get no where

@TalkTalk hello, my internet should of been connected yesterday, but it’s not working still flashing orange all connected correctly tried online chat but unhelpful I would really like this rectified ASAP as I’m paying and not getting a service. Thank you.

@TalkTalk have just provided us with probably the worst customer service I have ever endured. And their broadband is dogshit.

@TalkTalk are the worse customer service I've ever dealt with.. -Poor communication with their foreign staff

@TalkTalk Just switched to you and I'm on day 4 of no internet as you have failed to deliver a new router. Self employed and losing money every day. Was told I would get an update yesterday but still nothing. Late contender for worst customer service of the decade. 👏👏👏

@TalkTalk Yes I Have and I got through to someone who promised me yet again that she had cancelled my service / contract. Well i guess she lied.

@TalkTalk phone line and broad band have been down for over 1 week now!!! STILL waiting for a phonecall from you!!!

@TalkTalk To be honest, it's been going on for a very long time and I am really fed up and don't have any confidence in your company is be happy to talk to someone who is properly trained but again it's a terrible service you provide and I've already spent over 8hrs on the phone with TT

@TalkTalk No. Still the same problem.

Mr dealing with TalkTalk 'our router is the problem, please can you send a new one' 3 hours later, test after test (engineer was out yesterday), more tests, & a 'can you check you've plugged in the grey cable' (this convo is online) TalkTalk - we've determined it's your router

@TalkTalk Not at the moment as I can not afford the threats from your company, and I've taken this up with Ofcom and I am getting advice to escalate to ombudsman and citizens advice. Your customer service should be shut down it's appalling

@virginmedia Doesn't look good to new customers no... It's a joke, I'll call em back later if nothing I'll cancel and stick to talktalk fibre 👍🏻

@TalkTalk x25 calls made to you, re loss of connection 1.7 hrs on avg with your c/s, which is exhausting, u r becoming a health issue for me, it's a horrific service deplorable reliability I need to quit, yet u ask 4 early termination fee.see u in court, farce of a service.