Broadband advice wanted

Edward_Harding · 25 July 2020 at 10:35AM

I was talked into changing from standard Broadband to Fibre last November by a BT telesales person when my contract came up for renewal. I had experienced no problems with standard Broadband and it ran quick enough for my kind of use. Since the changeover I have had nothing but problems. The line keeps dropping and it takes a long time to recover. As an example in the last 24 hours it has dropped 15 times. I have had four Openreach engineers here in my house. They have changed the wiring and the two sockets and the router. They have all confirmed that there is nothing causing this in my house. They all agree that it is on the line from the cabinet which is about a quarter of a mile away and the manhole opposite my house. The last engineer said it was probably caused by a spike. I wrote to the CEO of BT and received a response very quickly. I had a special consultant who called me regularly but nothing changed. They just send an email after a while saying "The case is now closed". I took it up eventually with resolver and it is still ongoing. They have put another special telephone supporter based in Newcastle on it who regularly checks. The last one made an appointment for another engineer to come last Wed between 8 and 1. He did not turn up all day. They apologised and could not offer an excuse. They then scheduled another engineer for yesterday. He didn't turn up either. I am waiting for an apology. My daughter lives in the same road and is with Plus Net. She has the same problems but put it down to excessive use as there are 5 of them that use the net. She has never taken it up with her provider. Any ideas? Should I now escalate it to go to the ombudsman?