BT Wi-Fi (aka BT Fon) Reviews

Sometimes the best way to get a feel for a broadband provider is to read what those who are already customers think of the service they're receiving. Below are all the reviews we've received for BT Wi-Fi (aka BT Fon).

Recent Customer Ratings for BT Wi-Fi

  • Satisfaction
    2.6 stars
  • Customer Service
    2.7 stars
  • Speed
    2.4 stars
  • Reliability
    2.5 stars

Based on 100 customer ratings since 2020-08-09 (Show all time ratings)

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Ratings are left by users of our speed test as well as by reviewers. Recent star ratings summarise the last 12 months of ratings or the last 100 ratings placed, whichever is largest.

115 Customer Reviews over 3 pages

  • Reviewer
    Location
    London
    Reviewing
    BT Wi-Fi (aka BT Fon)
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    UTTER Awful WIFI. The range of the wifi cant even go futher than 1 floor. BT promised a speed of 20MBs but we are currently getting 2MBs. The signal is lost every 2 minutes and takes 30 min to re-establish.

    AVOID AT ALL COSTS
  • Reviewer
    Location
    London
    Reviewing
    BT Wi-Fi (aka BT Fon)
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    Scam. Paid for one day pass to have internet for a job interview. It never connects. Never was able to log in for my interview and ended up calling the recruiter by phone. This is not WiFi, it is pure scam.. Waste of money
  • Reviewer
    Location
    London
    Reviewing
    BT Wi-Fi (aka BT Fon)
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    Compared with my sim card pay as you go 3 network mobile just rubbish, I try to connect in my area to a bt fon wifi, and found the connection every time broking up the connection keeps fighting to keep going online shame on the bt took me about 12 pounds and the internet on and off on and off , but the fun part the connection got full bars is their services just rubbish no doubts about.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Northolt
    Reviewing
    BT Wi-Fi (aka BT Fon)
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    The service is absolutely atrocious I get no access to the wifi whatsoever and all in all, I’m genuinely so disappointed and upset about it as I really need this wifi to work for my work and academic reasons. I have to waste money to switch because your systems don’t work. Actually so angry about it.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    London
    Reviewing
    BT Wi-Fi (aka BT Fon)
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    It's a scam, paying BT 17,99 for 5 days I feel I got scam it never work, even when it works speed is so slow can't even open an email to check, what wast of money paying for BTwifi-Fon DONE BUY IT better go get sim card and pay for internet future on local store 1 pound for sim card 15 to20 pound internet free for 30 days and it works
  • Reviewer
    Location
    UK
    Reviewing
    BT Wi-Fi (aka BT Fon)
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    DO NOT USE. WARNING. DO NOT USE. THIS IS A WASTE OF MONEY. I AM PAYING AN UNBELIEVABLE AMOUNT OF MONEY TO THESE CON ARTISTS.

    THE UPLOAD AND DOWNLOAD SPEED IS LESS THAN 1 MB A SECOND. I HAD BETTER CONNECTION IN THE EARLY 90'S. DO NOT USE.

    MY WORK REQUIRES A HIGH SPEED CONNECTION, AND THESE JOKERS HAVE QUITE LITERALLY COST ME THOUSANDS OF POUNDS DUE TO THE UNSTABLE CONNECTION. CONSTANT DISCONNECTION, SOMETIMES NOT WORKING FOR DAYS AT A TIME.

    I WOULD NOT USE THIS IF YOU PAID ME. EXCUSE MY LANGUAGE, I JUST CAN'T BELIEVE THIS IS EVEN LEGAL. THEY ARE SELLING SOMETHING THAT DOES NOT WORK.

    AVVVVVVOIIIIIIIIIIDDDDD! DON'T SAY YOU WEREN'T WARNED!
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Leeds
    Reviewing
    BT Wi-Fi (aka BT Fon)
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    A disaster. 95% of time it does not work, and they dont offer you any help.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Cumbria
    Reviewing
    BT Wi-Fi (aka BT Fon)
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    AVOID!!! I paid for a daily internet on demand, I could save myself the money and trouble! Problems to access the internet, problems to log in, once connected it keeps disconnecting all the time without any reason, and loading any page takes ages! Basically after 2 hours of trying to check my email I havent managed to do anything. Worst service ever!
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Cardiff
    Reviewing
    BT Wi-Fi (aka BT Fon)
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    Great on the first week. Now onto the 4th day of second week. Keeps cutting off signal almost non existent whether i am indoors or outdoors. Now this morning cant even connect. Dont bother waste of money
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Edinburgh
    Reviewing
    BT Wi-Fi (aka BT Fon)
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    Pathetic. That this service exists in 2017 is a revolting indictment of what happens when you give a PLC a monopoly. Tragic speed, tragic reliability, tragic uptime. Tragic.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Coventry
    Reviewing
    BT Wi-Fi (aka BT Fon)
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    the worst service ever, internet keep disconnects, or having a problem with connecting at all, I will never use it again
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Glasgow
    Reviewing
    BT Wi-Fi (aka BT Fon)
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    Possibly the worst wifi hot spot! complete waste of money! I spent £40 of this hot spot and it cuts out constantly and sometimes wont rejoin! Much better just topping up your mobile data than using BT Wifi Hotspot!
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Bermondsey
    Reviewing
    BT Wi-Fi (aka BT Fon)
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    This a pure scam, as soon as you buy more than one day package it doesn’t work anymore! I don’t know how it’s possible that this service is still up! Police should investigate about
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Glousteshire
    Reviewing
    BT Wi-Fi (aka BT Fon)
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    This is the worst thing ever made ever. If I get ten seconds of wifi on this I'll pull my fingernails off with pliers and swallow them whole. And we have infinity 2 and it can't even have the wifi not lie to me. No I am not connected to wifi. Don't pretend I am. Often I have to turn of my wifi and turn it back on.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Bristol
    Reviewing
    BT Wi-Fi (aka BT Fon)
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    Constantly disconnects. Slow. Unreliable. Very, very overpriced for what it is.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Southwark
    Reviewing
    BT Wi-Fi (aka BT Fon)
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    I just moved into this house. After having to wait for 14 days to have a
    BT landline installed (as Virgin Media won't bother to connect it) I have ordered a BT broadband. Had to call 4 times and spend in total more than 2 hours on the phone just to order the Broadband. After which i got nottified I would have to wait another 5 weeks until the broadband will be activated. I was told that as soon as I order the Broadband I could use the BT-WIFI and BT-wifi with FON in the area. I just needed to login with my BT account. One week after the landline activation I still do not have a BT account number so I cannot activate my BT account which means I cannot use the wifi. called BT a couple more times. Then, as I have work to complete, I paid 7.99 pounds for a day with BT wifi with FON connection. Hoping my BT letter with the account number will arrive. It didnt happen and I still needed to work. So i paid 17.99 pounds for 5 days connection with bt-wifi with FON. Except this time the wi-fi was so bad, worked at 120 ish kb per second, kept disconnecting, most of the times on reconnect will just show NO INTERNET. So called BT again to complain, and the guy tells me that since I ordered a broadband, He can give me a one month voucher to access the BT-WIFI hotspot. Went to Argos and bought a WI-FI amplifier. With amplified signal, BT-WIFI works at its best at 120kb per second (which is like internet in Romania 20 years ago), with a ping of 1500 - 3700 ms and repeated timed out requests. I cannot even connect a second device to the WIFI. To think of it, in 2019, i had to pay about 50 pounds just to get the crappiest internet connection ever. BT, did you know that it is possible to have fiber optic connection brought into your house with 200Mb/s speed/ TV and landline, all for 8 pounds a month? in Romania, not UK. But still possible.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Cheltenham
    Reviewing
    BT Wi-Fi (aka BT Fon)
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    Once you sign up and pay, you’ll never be able to use the internet as you just won’t get any signal. Seriously - avoid at all costs.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Glasgow
    Reviewing
    BT Wi-Fi (aka BT Fon)
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    terrible service. I opened a bt wi-fi account setting the card payment - never had a problem with that card before- after three months I received an absurd paper bill because for some reason the card wasn't accepted. But they did'n give me an email notice or something, just sent the bill. so I set the online payment again, calling the customer service. one month later another paper bill plus the charge for the late payment. stay away from them
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Hampshire
    Reviewing
    BT Wi-Fi (aka BT Fon)
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    The absolute biggest piece of trash I have ever come across. Back up to my mobile for meetings. Never have I come across anything as poor as this. Avoid like the plague.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Bedford
    Reviewing
    BT Wi-Fi (aka BT Fon)
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      1 star
    Comments
    I paid for hotspot to tide me over while I wait for new home connection (not bt cause of price and delay) but need internet for work. FFS literally have to log back in every 30 seconds cause connection drops?
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Grays
    Reviewing
    BT Wi-Fi (aka BT Fon)
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    Disgusting quality of connection, I'm paying for wifi to keep on disconnecting won't let me login through my phone for the most of the day, I have to wait around until it finally decides to conne t and thats with full bars, I beg you pay for a decent broadband, sadly virgin media isn't avaliable in my are so I had to use this garbage, never again, wish bt went bankrupt
  • Reviewer
    Location
    London
    Reviewing
    BT Wi-Fi (aka BT Fon)
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    It's basically a scam. You pay £10 for a day of WiFi and you do not get it. You literally cannot access any websites, even google. I'm not joking. Stay away.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    UK
    Reviewing
    BT Wi-Fi (aka BT Fon)
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    Have to disable WiFi, wait 5 seconds, re enable WiFi, wait 5 seconds, go to Google, fall on landing page, select WiFi, click login, wait 5 seconds then try to go online. Sometimes you have to do this 4 times, a session may last only 20 seconds until you have to repeat the above process. I often have more than a dozen used login tabs after a half hour of internet use. Customer service admit how bad it is. Word of note - the contract is unfair under the 1974 unfair contracts act - compensation cannot be limited. You will get your money back if you quote this and consumer protection act and sale of goods act(services(fitness for purpose).

    To sum up; a bad, slow, unreliable, infuriating service with no guarantee in the contract except that you pay the fee even if the service is not provided. Contract is wholly invalid, further to that the contract is in broken English with multiple spelling, grammar, syntax and denotation errors.

    One thing can be relied upon about this service: that it cannot be relied upon. Get your money back!
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Edinburgh
    Reviewing
    BT Wi-Fi (aka BT Fon)
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    This is not a Wifi, this is a prank.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    stockport
    Reviewing
    BT Wi-Fi (aka BT Fon)
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    DONT BOTHER AND HERE'S WHY......

    It seems to connect when it wants your card details and/or when you activate another 24 hours worth (if you've subscribed to a 5 or 30 day contract). As soon as you've done any of the above, its very unreliable, slow as you can get and it's simply RUBBISH....WHAT A WASTE OF MONEY!
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Leicester
    Reviewing
    BT Wi-Fi (aka BT Fon)
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    just don't, you'll thank me later
  • Reviewer
    Location
    London
    Reviewing
    BT Wi-Fi (aka BT Fon)
    Date
    Comments
    The worst service EVER!!! Complete rip off...do not use it! Keeps disconnecting, poor signal at home!!! Expensive and inflexible....you don't buy MB...you buy time...I bought 5 x 1 day but even if I need to connect only 2 hrs that day I loose the whole..so totally inflexible. Slowe. .etc etc etc..can't believe at this time and being BT withe so many options and good offers around is offering such a third word service!
  • Reviewer
    Location
    London
    Reviewing
    BT Wi-Fi (aka BT Fon)
    Date
    Comments
    Complete crap. If this was a car it would be illegal on the street. We need a class action lawsuit and a petition to make the govt force BT to give us what we pay through the nose for.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Clerkenwell
    Reviewing
    BT Wi-Fi (aka BT Fon)
    Date
    Comments
    Total rip off.
    Don't trust the wifi signal bars...even it displays full.
    Thought it would be better with the premium charges.
    What a waste of time !!!
    It is a robbery by faking the wifi signals !!!!
  • Reviewer
    Location
    London
    Reviewing
    BT Wi-Fi (aka BT Fon)
    Date
    Comments
    O/O never ever buy anyhing from them, total scammers, no bill in email where you can track your ID.20£ for nothing but angry for trusting them.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Goole
    Reviewing
    BT Wi-Fi (aka BT Fon)
    Date
    Comments
    Broadband barely ever works no matter where we place the WiFi. Even if it does work, it's only ever slightly working thus being almost pointless, this has led me to having to burn through mobile data and completely drain it resulting in purchases for what I should already be able to do and not need to put phonecalls before the WiFi, I'd rate 0 stars if I could. Hate BT wifi with a passion
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Winchester
    Reviewing
    BT Wi-Fi (aka BT Fon)
    Date
    Comments
    BT-Fon promote as alternative internet connection, but does not pick it up. When you buy it there was not option to check the straights rate, so as alternative connection it does not work at our area, but my mistake, I've paid full price for a month, and can not use it. All the sale set up like scam to hook you up, but does not provide the promise services. And I have to be on the top floor in the house, because downstairs it doesn't work at all.

    Waste of money!!!!!!
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Norwood
    Reviewing
    BT Wi-Fi (aka BT Fon)
    Date
    Comments
    Connection keeps dropping specially when inactive. I make and expect international WhatsApp calls & this is becoming increasingly an issue specially for incoming calls.
    This is day 1 and am already frustrated specially since I paid the monthly € 40 subscription.
    I want to cancel and get refund so I can look elsewhere for better service.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    London EC1
    Reviewing
    BT Wi-Fi (aka BT Fon)
    Date
    Comments
    What a rubbish experience and waste of money. Worked for all of an hour and then vanished. I wish I had read the reviews before I signed up. Since I had no internet, however, and was relying on my phone it wasn't so easy.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Woodford green london
    Reviewing
    BT Wi-Fi (aka BT Fon)
    Date
    Comments
    Don’t bother it takes your money then signs you out and then asks to pay for another 1hour. If I could give a zero I would have done

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