Connected - No Internet

[Hugh88]

I wonder if anyone has had a similar issue to mine. I returned from holiday on the 19th September to find that my router (Huawei HG633) would not connect to the internet.

All devices showed Connected/No Internet.

I contacted TalkTalk and after struggling with a bot and a foreign call centre agent I managed to get them to send a new router. A new router, WiFi Hub was received on the Monday 25th September.  After setting up the router the dreaded amber light appeared and would not go away. Same issue "connected/no internet". Back on to TalkTalk via chat explained the situation and they decided that there was a problem with my home network and booked a QUEBGB Engineer to attend on the 30th September. The Engineer attended confirmed that there was no issue with the home set up and tried another router. Same issue " Connected/No Internet". He then said there may be a fault on the external line and this would need to be checked by open reach. Strangely when I checked the Fault tracker it stated incorrectly that the fault had been fixed.

Back on to talktalk who then arranged an open reach engineer to call on the 5th October. Open reach engineer stated no fault with external line and the problem was at the talktalk end. Faulttracker closed the job again and like a game of snakes and ladders it was back to the start. Frustration, Exasperation was now starting to creep in. I again after a lengthy process managed to contact TalkTalk who then arranged for an expert TalkTalk Engineer to visit, yesterday,  on the 12th October. Lo and behold the engineer could find nothing wrong with the home set up and said the problem seemed to be at the talktalk end. He the escalated it again for a visit by an open reach engineer.

Now this visit will most likely be a waste of time as the external line is fine. I believe that the issue lies with the replacement TalkTalk router the WiFi Hub. This router is designed for full fibre services and my package is the Fibre 35 which is a slower package that relies on the Open Reach network . The router I should have is the WiFi Hub Black which is more compatable with my package. My head is sore with banging it against TalkTalks walls and if there is any moderator looking in can you please arrange a WiFi Hub Black to be sent to replace the WiFi Hub as I have had no internet connection since the 19th September 2023 and I am having to get by using my next door neighbours WiFi untill this sorry mess is resolved. 

I wonder if anyone has had a similar experience.

[Hugh88]

Cheers Chris. Thanks again.

Hugh

[Chris-TalkTalk]

Hi Hugh

Glad to hear that you've received the router and it's working, apologies for any inconvenience

Chris

[Hugh88]

Hi Chris,

Parcel has been delivered. WiFi Hub 2 connected and phone now working. Many thanks for your help on this. It has been a long hard struggle since the 19th Sept when I noticed my broadband had ceased. I guess we'll never get to the root cause but my suspicion is that the copper line was ceased erroneously on the broadband side. 

Anyway I'm now up and running and I trust that the auto compensation kicks in for the weeks I was offline from 19th Sept to 2nd Nov.

Once again thanks for all your help. From a customer point of view it was much easier dealing with you guys on the community than going through the bots and foreign call centre agents. Wasn't easy for them either I guess as the language barriers can be problematic both ways.  

Thanks Again!

Hugh

[Chris-TalkTalk · Accepted solution]

Hi Hugh

Latest update from a couple of minutes ago - Your parcel is with one of our drivers for delivery

Chris

[Chris-TalkTalk]

No problem 🙂

[Hugh88]

Thanks for the confirmation Chris. I should hear from Yodel soon.

Cheers

Hugh

[Chris-TalkTalk]

There was the following update at 05:55 this morning - Your parcel has arrived at your delivery depot

I'll check again later for further updates

Chris

[Chris-TalkTalk]

No problem, I'll just check

Chris

[Hugh88]

Hi Chris,

Hate to be a pest but I haven't heard anything from Yodel regarding a delivery. Normally they send an e-Mail to advise of delivery timescale as soon as the item reaches their depot. If the package was despatched on Monday I'd have expected some communication from them could you please confirm that it has definately been despatched.

Thanks

Hugh

[Chris-TalkTalk]

No problem 🙂

[Hugh88]

Hi Chris,

Thanks for that. Hopefully that will do the trick and I'll get my phone working again.

Hugh

[Chris-TalkTalk]

Hi Hugh,

The wifi hub 2 was dispatched yesterday, it should be with you either today or tomorrow

Thanks

Chris

[Hugh88]

Karl,

The eero is not connected and never has been as my phone was unable to download the app due to the bluetooth being incompatible. So I couldn't use the eero. I am using the Wifi Hub Fast at the moment but the Grandstream Digital Voice Adaptor doesn't work with it as it is designed for use with the eero. Now I explained this on Thursday and both yourself and Michelle suggested the WiFi Hub 2 with VoIP as a solution and I was led to believe one was on the way after your response on Thursday. Now It is pointless sending out an eero if I can't set it up.  The eero isn't at fault it is still in its original packaging as I can't use it. I have been mis-sold this package as I was advised that as long as my phone had Android 7 or above it would be fine, no mention was made of bluetooth 4 BLE being required at the point of sale. So either the contract gets cancelled without penalty or a Wifi Hub 2 with VoIP is offered as an alternative solution. There is no point in going down the eero route.  Can you please just arrange the wifi hub 2 with VoIP to be sent out, if that works then fine and i'll return the eero.

Cheers

Hugh

[Karl-TalkTalk]

Hi

I placed a manual order for the Hub2 with the logistics Team as your account will not allow me to order this directly.

I'll feedback to our network Teams that you already have tested with Eero, but I think they may want to rule the original out as possibly at fault.

Karl.

[Hugh88]

Hi Karl,

I haven't received any call on my mobile and as you know I have no landline at the moment as the VoIP isn't working, so phoning my landline is pointless. They will need to phone me on my mobile. Sending out a new eero isn't the solution as I already have one.  If you remember my mobile isn't compatible for the eero app. You said on Thursday (see message 22 of 53) that you had ordered a WiFi Hub 2 with VoIP. Clearly this hasn't been ordered as you stated as I haven't received any messages from Yodel regarding any delivery. 

Can you please confirm if the wifi hub 2 has been ordered.

Hugh

[Karl-TalkTalk]

Hi

Our Network team advised they did give a call but were unable to contact you.

They have ordered an EERO for you, to see if this will test differently, and have booked in a call for you on Wednesday 10-12

Karl.

[Hugh88]

Thanks for that Karl.

New post now created regarding the contract change.

Back to the current issue though. I am still experiencing slow download speeds. I'm only acheiving a maximum of 9Mbs. When I check my speed on my connection I get the mesage "Great! You're getting the download speed of 156Mbps as expected." Then under this is  the comment "Your guaranteed speed: 9Mbps" Surely Fibre 150 should be delivering speeds greater than 9Mbps. My actual download speeds aren't much different to my old Fibre 35 contract. The other thing I noticed is that Check My Connection  now doesn't provide download/upload speeds and ping results . When I use other speed test sites the speeds are download 107 upload 31 ping 28ms. I realise that speeds change due to bandwith and traffic. When I checked the speeds at the ONT I was reciving 93.8/31.6Mbps and 15ms ping.

So something is not quite right here. Did the network team get back to you on Friday.

Regards

Hugh

[Karl-TalkTalk]

Hi

Please see my last reply.

Karl.

[Hugh88]

How do I post it in the billing section? Do I have to raise a new topic. How is this done.

[Karl-TalkTalk]

Hi

Go to  Billing - TalkTalk Help & Support  and click the Start a Topic button at the top.

Karl.