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Vodafone's Service and Support
kieran0065:
Hello,
I'm writing this for anyone who's with Vodafone currently or Going to switch to them and their Broadband Service.
When i joined Vodafone it was more of a cost saving switch, and that then moved to getting way more for about £15-£20 less then when i was with Sky. The switch took the standard 2 weeks to initiate, and all went smoothly, the switch happened about 5PM on the date of switch and it was pretty seamless. Then that's when the issues stated, at first i thought that it was just my line re-configuring it's self, but after about a week of getting 70Mb+ speeds between the hours of 11PM and 8AM, and then between the other hours my speeds would drop dramatically to around 10Mb.
I talked to rep over live chat that raised a fault, and it was found out that the fiber line's that Vodafone lease on the Cab that i was on where congested, that confused me a little because when i was with Sky i would get a solid 37Mb with about 2ms ping (more on that later). So they phoned me and told me that Openreach where installing a new Fiber line between the exchange and the cab, that took about a month.
The month goes by, and Vodafone call me to tell me the line has changed and that i should expect my service to be better now, but nope! And this is where all my current issues are at, i tried phoning back, but i got put though to the wrong place on their stupid automated service, but the guy kindly set a phone back for the next day between 1pm and 5pm, but the next day they called me at 11am while i was asleep (I was not happy) and ever since then ive not been able to get them to phone me back (its been 2 months) The last two chats ive had with Vodafone on their live chat has had me stumped, ive told them that my line's DLM needs to be reset, because currently i am stuck at 49Mb and its been like that for over 2 months now, even though my router suggests i can get around 72Mb out of my 76Mb line, Vodafone's excuse for this the first time was that my speed's are over the minimum guaranteed 44Mb so they would not do anything. I tried again a week later and this time i got a little further, but i was then told that once again because im over my minimum guaranteed speeds they would not be able to raise a fault ticket to Openreach, because Vodafone themselves cannot reset the DLM, and to have it reset there needs to be a fault with the line. So now im stuck here with a Fiber connection at 49Mb and around 20ms ping that can be alot better, but because of the lack of support from Vodafone i cant do anything about it, and im not even able to contact Openreach directly.
So if any of you are thinking about swapping over to Vodafone, do know that if you have an issue they will most likely leave you out to dry. If it wasn't for the fact that i'm probably moving in the near future, and that it takes around 2 weeks to swap ISP's i would have changed back to either Sky, or another supplier that can actually support me, oh and the cost.
Thanks for reading! And if you've had similar issues with Vodafone, pop them below id love to read them.
ejs:
Without knowing what caused what you say is the DLM limiting your bandwidth to 49Mb, and if that issue is no longer present, I don't think a DLM reset is the appropriate permanent solution.
j0hn:
--- Quote ---I talked to rep over live chat that raised a fault, and it was found out that the fiber line's that Vodafone lease on the Cab that i was on where congested, that confused me a little because when i was with Sky i would get a solid 37Mb with about 2ms ping (more on that later). So they phoned me and told me that Openreach where installing a new Fiber line between the exchange and the cab, that took about a month.
--- End quote ---
Absolute nonsense if Vodafone told you that. That's nothing to do with Vodafone. You would have used the same fibres with Sky. It's at the exchange that Vodafone can install a GEA Cablelink and the traffic becomes their responsibility. No ISP "lease fibre lines from the cab to the exchange" as Vodafone put it. It's very possible that was the reason speeds dropped, but it could have happened with every ISP.
kieran0065:
Reply to ejs's post: The issue was that because the fibre line was congested, during the day the speeds would drop dramatically to compensate for usage on the lines, but at night when there was barely any usage id get it all, so the DLM thought my line was unstable and compensated for it and made my speeds lower to get the stability up,
Reply to J0hn's post: Yeah i think half the stuff that vodafone told me was a bunch of BS to be honest, I'm a tech i kinda understand how the whole transmission of service works, and i know that switching me from Sky to Vodafone wouldn't all of a sudden cause the fibre line to become congested.. and it also confused me that why did it take openreach over a month to fix the issue. Nevertheless im not happy with vodafone, they didn't even compensate me for the 2 months of p00 service they gave me, this happened from my service switch date aswell.. it wasnt like i was with them a little time before it happened, it was like as soon as my service switched, all hell broke loose...
I'm thinking of switching provider again, simply because i dont want to stay with a company that will go above and beyond for their mobile customers, but will dig themselves a grave for their broadband customers (I'm with Vodafone for Mobile too) I'm thinking of going with Zen, ive seen their reviews have been great, not sure if they allow 3rd party router's (got a ZyZel VMG8932-B10A) or if i want to break my bank account i might just go with BT, at least then if i have an issue itll go to the right place. But if you have any suggestions for a provider, I'm in the PO22 area if you'd like to suggest anyone, sadly i cant get VM, would like to but i guess Arun DC dont want them to dig up the already atrocious paths around here.
Thanks!
sevenlayermuddle:
Don't assume that Vodafone will go 'above and beyond' for mobile customers.
I've been a mobile customer for 15 years and until recently satisfied, but they have now outsourced to India. I have only used it once since the outsourcing, each incompetent Indian in turn stated they'd have to pass me on to somebody else. I refused to give in, held my ground through all the transfers, and after about half an hour realised I was actually in an infinite loop between just about three individuals, none of whom were capable of understanding the issue I wanted to discuss. :)
Regarding broadband, no experience with Vodafone. But they did take over Demon, with whom I was a customer. In my days with Demon's Indian support, I ascertained they had no awareness of BT DLM's function, or even any awareness that DLM existed. They showed no recognition of the most basic concepts, like the modem's SNR margin. If Vodafone have taken on the old Demon tech support centres, I'd give up, if I were you. I did.
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