Magnet Networks “provides commercial and residential customers with the services required to enable them to enjoy the benefits of high speed connectivity at competitive prices.” They have a range of entertainment bundles and three main broadband packages.
20 Customer Reviews of “Magnet”
Magnet Review by A.S, June 17, 2010
All I can say is avoid this company. Faulty line and no Broadband services for over a week. Up to 3 phone calls to their customer service line a day with several promises of a call back from their engineer to no avail. Worst still I am planning to switch to another provider so i rang in to request mu AUN number. No one in the customer service team seems to know where to find it. They promised to call me back. It is 48 hours on and still waiting.
I am so done with them!
Please Avoid!
Magnet Review by Kay, June 14, 2010
I have been with Magnet since 2004. I think I am one of the first set of customers to join the company. I’ve had very little to complain about albeit, not the fastest speed in the world but reliable all the same. Until around last Christmas (2009) that is. Ever since the service has been quite erratic. Sometimes my phone lines would be unreachable only to come back again at later time. Both phone lines and internet have been down for about a week now and many phone calls and numerous promises of calls back after, no end in sight. Now pissed off and looking to change
Magnet Review by Emer, May 8, 2010
Connection always going up and down. Lousy download times. Completely unreliable. Just as well that I have UPC as a backup. Am ditching them. Buyer Beware! Their claims on broadband speed are pure fantasy.
Magnet Review by Terri, April 23, 2010
although he speeds were alright …………. I had a technical issue but when I called I got the most rude customer service agent ever!
I will be canceling soon as they didn’t fix my technical issue”!
Magnet Review by Douglas B., April 13, 2010
I used to have magnet. The speeds were alright but were not up to scratch.
I have moved to another provider and am happy with them.
Magnet Review by Dave, April 7, 2010
Don’t believe it when they say you will get 24Mb speed because you don’t!
Total waste of money!
The customer service is terrible!
Magnet Review by Ross, April 3, 2010
Persistent connection issues are one thing. But a complete unwillingness to address problems time and time again by the single worst customer support team I have ever had the misfortune of dealing with is quite another. After being promised callbacks over the same issue for about two months, not to mention a dozen unanswered emails, I politely asked to speak to a manager, I was promptly hung up on by a a chap called Kevin. Thanks Kevin, you made my decision to change ISP a whole lot easier.
An absolutely useless company. Avoid.
Magnet Review by andy, January 23, 2010
Just for all who hate caps.
Not the best… but for me is Ok
Magnet Review by Fergal, January 19, 2010
The fact is that their customer service is the worst i’ve ever experienced from any company from any service. I haven’t had use of the service I’m paying for since 4/1/2010 despite many calls and e-mail. They never call back.
Magnet Review by Anonymous, November 29, 2009
Maybe a good ISP but the price is just not right
I recommend Smart Telecom or ntl
Magnet Review by Alex, September 14, 2009
I’m with them since 2006. Going to switch to Smart Telecom. Tech Support ABSOLUTELY USELESS!!! Internet down for nearly 2 weeks. Spent 80 euro for phone calls to tech support and all they say is we will ring you back we cant do anything! And they wont ring you back. It took them week and a half to put call to eircom to fix my phone line. After that only two days eiroc guys comes 30 minutes and internet working away! WEEK AND A HALF THE DID NOTHING TO FIX ISSUE. HAD TO SHOUT ON THEM AND SAY THAT I’LL CHANGE ISP IF THEY WONT FIX IT B4 THEY DID IT.
Service itself not reliable at all- router frizzes far too often.
Stay away from them!
Magnet Review by Ann, August 19, 2009
No complaints about Magnet whatsoever. Were on Digiweb previously, connection so bad rarely got over 2mbps down and 700kb up. With Magnet 10mb package consistently get 8-10 down, lightening fast connection. Use Blueface VoIP over Magnet and the call quality is perfect – with Digiweb couldn’t even make a phone call the quality was so poor. Customer service has been good when needed, which has been very rarely! Also great value as Digiweb were nearing E40 for their ’service’ another E10 is more than worth it to upgrade to Magnet.
Magnet Review by John Davies, May 12, 2009
18Mbps on ADSL work and play from home absolutley no problems. PCTV gives me a second TV too
Magnet Review by Kamil, May 2, 2009
Speed is crap !! value to high I changed to ntl 10MB get ntl not the best coustomer service but great value for many
Magnet Review by Justin Mason, March 10, 2009
I’ve been with Magnet for several months now, on their 10mbps LLU ADSL product, and have had a great experience so far!
The sales guy was extremely helpful and well-informed, the equipment arrived on time, with useful, well-written documentation, and once I installed it, it worked straight away. Since then, bandwidth has been high, and the speed of the connection is always nippy regardless of the time of day. I haven’t noticed any downtime whatsoever.
I’ve previously been with Eircom, who were maddeningly slow at times. By the end of my 2 years with Eircom on the 3mbps product, I would measure my link and get figures of 600kbps! atrocious, and definitely not worth what I was paying. It’s worth noting that I was on an Eircom local/long-distance/DSL bundle — but my combined phone/internet bill is now cheaper with Magnet.
I now happily recommend Magnet to anyone who asks….
Magnet Review by David, January 30, 2009
Can’t get their Fibre service but have their Magnet Force 10 product is still good. Install was pretty straight forward and the speed is great – youtube at 7:00 pm on my last provider was a lesson in patience
I only rang customer care once about the wifi and got an intelligent response within 60 seconds! – it turned out I was the dummy!
Can’t complain and before Magnet I seened to always have a reason to complain
Magnet Review by flynnduism, October 30, 2008
I have the 10mbps package via my phone line in Dublin, and it’s pretty good. Havn’t experienced any real downtime and the service is very reliable, especially compared to any ISPs I’ve used in the past.
Magnet Review by elly parker, October 29, 2008
Note: I am on 8MB synchronous Fibre to the Home (FTTH).
After having had disastrous dealings with Eircom & NTL in the past, it was a pleasure to sign up with Magnet. I work from home minimum one day a week, plus most evenings, so I need a fast, stable connection.
We recently moved into a new development, one of our reasons for selecting this was the promised FTTH connection. Our 8MB synchronous connection really does provide 8MB (sometimes more) both up and down and makes surfing the net a real pleasure.
One slight issue is that a few sites are inaccessible via Magnet’s network, amazon.co.uk being the most important to me. Luckily, I can turn on my work VPN and bypass this issue. It has been reported to Magnet, but has not yet been resolved.
Magnet Review by austin, October 29, 2008
We have a SHDSL and an ADSL line with Magnet in work. The Zylex routers they supply are extremely flakey, their customer service is absolutely useless (no taking ownership of a problem, no returning phone calls and never any follow-up). It took 3 months after switching to Magnet for everything to work as desired. Many deadlines were missed for getting things, very much a case of the left hand not knowing what the right hand was doing.
Magnet Review by Brian Kenny, October 29, 2008
Absolutely the best internet service I’ve seen in Ireland. Note: I am on one of the fibre to the home connections.