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Hello,

Our home internet started to lose its stability in the last 2 weeks. We had a DSL modem connected to the TAE socket. We would have internet for 2-3 hours and then we would lose it for random amount of time, sometimes 10 minutes, sometimes hours. The WLAN lights are always blue, the internet light flashes red really fast, the DSL light would flash blue sometimes as fast as the internet and sometimes slower. We sometimes see them all being blue, connect to the internet, 10 minutes later again they start flashing…

I called the O2 English speaking hotline and they told us the modem is defect and O2 rented us a new modem O2 Homebox 3. First day it worked fine and then we started to have the same problems. I called the English hotline again, this time they sent a technician. Today, the technician said the TAE socket was loose so he ‘fixed’ it and we actually saw the lights were blue. Not even after 5 minutes he left, internet light again started flashing red. I called the English hotline to tell them if they could reach the same technician and maybe he could return. They said they can’t so they gave us the number for technicians and told us that they can reach to the same technician. 

08005251378 was the number and the guy literally made fun of us saying he’s just someone sitting at his desk and he has no magic wand to help us. I’m sorry but then why is he at the end of that number if he can’t even reach a single technician who’s on duty. All he did was laughing at us.

We are living in the house 3 people, all students and all working from home. We just want a stable internet connection that is available 24/7. That is what we are paying for after all.

 

UPDATE:

Today when I came home the internet was working, after I connected to the WiFi to watch some videos, it disconnected again and the internet light started flashing red. 

To find the root of the problem, while the internet was gone, I tried our old modem, it didn’t work either. I also tried our old DSL cable and still didn’t work. So, the modem and the cable are not the problem, the socket was fixed by the technician yesterday so that should be fine too. The problem must be the DSL cable coming from the building to our apartment.

Also, since the internet disconnects when we use it, I wanted to test something. I turned off the WiFi and waited for modem to get fixed. When it had internet, I connected to it and ran speed test. As I predicted, our connection was gone again.

So, somehow the DSL cable only stops working when we put some pressure on it, when we use it for heavy performance required jobs. What could be the solution to this? Do we have the right to ask O2 to replace our whole DSL cable including the one comes to the building? 

Edit o2_Kathi 24.10.24 Full quote removed


Hello @disappointed_customer,

welcome to our o2 Community 🙂

When your internet conenction is still having problems after exchanging the router and a technician fixing the socket inside your apartment, it can indeed be that the root cause is further down the line. I understand how this can impact especially your work and studies not having a stable connection.

The 08005251378 is our landline/broadband disturbance hotline, the colleagues there cannot directly contact the technicians but rather forward a message for you that the disturbance has not been solved. Did they also say that they forwarded that the solutiuon has to continue when you called? If not I do apologize, this is not how we want to work for our customers.

In that case I advise you to contact our English speaking hotline again, to have the solution continued.

Please, if you like to also update us here and ask any questions also to us here 🙂

Best Regards,

Gerrit


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