TPG Broadband
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Overall sentiment for TPG Broadband is predominantly negative, driven by frustrations with customer service and connection reliability. While some customers experience stable service and value the pricing, many report lengthy wait times, technical difficulties, and challenges when attempting to cancel plans.
Please away from TPG if you don't like to waste your time to deal with their low-quality services. They can't solve your problem quick, it will take a few times to contact them continuously. Although they provide competitive cheap price if compared to other providers, but it is not worth with their low quality service, they can't provide a… Read more
reasonable customer services. It is ridiculous, they sent a modem to an address i never provide, and i am their existing customer.
I've been with TPG for years. Despite that today they decided to cancel my service without warning and charge me $30 for it. When I called to figure out what happened, they told me that NBN was the one who cancelled and they have no control over it, likely a NBN contractor updating the node my service connects to. Okay, fair enough. Their… Read more
proposed solution to this? To charge me an additional full month in order to create a new account for me. They assured me that they would refund the amount they had already taken, but since they had already charged me that month, there's no additional money in my account for them to take and any refund or credit added to my account would take days. I've already had to cancel work and lost money over this and their proposed solution is to charge me even more money and just credit it back later.
It should be a very simple thing to just reinstate my account and use the money I've already paid you to do so. The fact that it isn't is insane. To make things even worse, I was already having dropout issues and a lot lower speed than promsied. I would be stupid to create a new account with you instead of with literally anyone else.
The only reason I have 2 stars instead of 1 is that you had some really nice agents on the line who were genuinely trying to do the best they could to help. Not their fault you tied their hands.
i am old customer more than 25 years ,i called them agreed and stop 4g wireless,one months and change to 5g. but stlll charged my 4g fee one month and advance charge me 5g fee.when i come back.nothing to do.i called them 5 times spend 2hours ask refund59.95+34.95,they give me diffrence answers no refund.and by the way they are horribble service
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Dropouts and bad customer service – I reported that the internet connection was dropping out most days around 10am for a few minutes. I have access to WAN iface history to see the outage. It got a support ticket. Then a couple of days later I got two calls on the same day, neither were understandable due to suck poor english and a bad quality audio. I also got SMS's saying the… Read more
service was repaired, though I still got a dropout on the same day. I then tried to ring TPG support and was on hold for over and hour and a half before giving up waiting. I then cancelled my account of over 15 years. TPG is now crap.
The worse services you can take from is TPG. They are a Scammer selling 500mbps speed and never provide that speed. called so many time to customers service
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Not reliable at all, most of the time.down, this morning 1.1 yesterday 7.1 etc, modem changed but still even second one turns off or start blinking ...so no network available. Too many promises to settle the matter but in reality nothing was done to have a satisfactory serious service, being charged for entirely for it. Not to recommend to anyone. Show details
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Excellent speed on HFC connection. Getting 540mbps+ even on peak hours. Plus their new wifi 7 router is great for range and latency. Customer service is also good. Dont listen to negative comments Show details
Using TPG wireless home broadband since last 2.5 years. Dated 10 Aug, 2026, i called them to know about 5G wireless. I was told by the agent that its cost is 29.9 AUD for first 6 months and then 59.9 AUD after that. I asked many times that if there are any hidden or other charges but she said no, thats only charges and no other charge. After… Read more
taking my bank details, they have deducted 29.9 and 59.9 AUD from my account.
It made me furious and then i called the helpline again and asked, they said its upfront payment of 59.9 AUD. I am 100% sure it was not communicated to me properly and then i asked to transfer my call to the supervisor and lodge my complaint. None of this has been done so far. I requested to cancel my 4G service and still they have not done this request. Just delaying the matter to charge me for another month. Also send them email complaint but no response yet.
If TPG can read my review, are they able to assist me ?
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I rarely leave negative reviews, but this experience was extremely disappointing. On 27 July 2026, I called TPG to cancel my old Home Internet service after receiving and activating my new TPG 5G Home Internet. During the 8-minute call, I repeatedly confirmed with the consultant that there would be no further payments for my old Home Internet… Read more
service. I was assured multiple times that there would not be, and my saved payment method was also removed, so I reasonably believed the cancellation had been processed.
The very next day, I discovered that I had still been charged $54.99 for the next billing period (4 August – 3 September 2026).
I had to call TPG again and spend another 15 minutes explaining the situation. What frustrated me most was that I was questioned by the consultant:
“Why did you agree to cancel the service on 3 September 2026?”
I never agreed to cancel on that date. If I had agreed to continue paying for another month, I would never have repeatedly asked whether there would be any further payments during my original call.
Only after I firmly insisted that my request was cancellation immediately then a refund was finally approved.
I appreciate that the refund was arranged in the end, but it should never have required two phone calls, over 20 minutes of my time, and unnecessary stress to correct a mistake caused by incorrect information.
I hope TPG reviews its staff training to ensure customers receive accurate information and that account notes accurately reflect what customers actually request.
We have been on the NBN bundle 500 since 2025 (moved over from a different provider with the same speed). We decided to continue with TPG for another 12 months as when I rang to cancel in May 2026, admin offered a discount to convince us to stay. Recently we have noticed a lot of pausing/interference during streaming and ran some speed tests… Read more
(knowing evening speeds are typically lesser maybe 50% slower). Was so shocked to find we are not even getting 10% of the speed we are paying for... We'll be moving back to our previous provider
Also did a test in the morning, off peak times don't even reach 50% N.B. speed test was done: mid-week between 10 - 11pm and Friday morning after 8:30am
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I have been a TPG customer for more than six years across two different properties, and unfortunately my experience at my current address has been nothing but frustrating. When I moved into this property, there was no NBN connection installed. I arranged for NBN to attend and install the required HFC (Hybrid Fibre Coaxial) infrastructure,… Read more
including the external connection box and the internal cabling into the home. Ever since that installation, I have experienced ongoing internet issues that have never been permanently resolved.
Over the past three years, I have made countless calls to TPG regarding poor speeds, connection problems, and reliability issues. I have repeatedly questioned whether the location of the external NBN box and the internal connection point could be contributing to the problem, however I have been told that if I want any changes made, I would need to organise and pay for a private cabler myself.
I have had multiple NBN technicians attend my property. Every visit seems to end the same way. The technician plugs directly into the modem via Ethernet cable, runs a speed test, and tells me I have some of the best speeds in the street. The problem is that my household does not operate through Ethernet cables. Like most people, I rely on Wi-Fi for streaming services, smart TVs, phones, tablets, and security cameras. Being told the service performs well through a cable does not help when the actual day-to-day user experience is poor.
One technician replaced cabling and advised that everything had been fixed before leaving. Less than an hour later, he returned to my front door after noticing the service had stopped working again. Even the technician could see there was still a problem.
I currently pay approximately $115 per month for TPG’s highest residential plan, advertised at speeds up to 1000 Mbps. Despite paying for a premium service, I am lucky to achieve around 400 Mbps on a good day, and there are many occasions where websites, streaming services, and applications simply fail to load despite the modem showing as connected.
The most frustrating part is the constant cycle of troubleshooting. I call TPG, they refresh the line, the service improves temporarily, and then the problems return. I have been told multiple times that refreshing the connection is only a temporary solution, yet it continues to be the only solution offered.
Support tickets are regularly opened and then closed within 24 hours because no fault can be detected remotely. I am repeatedly told that everything looks normal from TPG’s side while I am sitting at home unable to properly use the internet service I am paying for.
Over the years I have spent countless evenings, weekends, and personal time on the phone trying to get this issue resolved. As a long-term customer who has remained loyal despite ongoing problems, I expected a genuine effort to identify and fix the root cause. Instead, I feel like I have been trapped in an endless loop of fault reports, technician visits, temporary fixes, and closed tickets.
What makes this even more disappointing is the lack of meaningful compensation. After years of documented issues, repeated calls, and ongoing service problems, I have received little recognition of the inconvenience and disruption caused.
I have stayed with TPG through years of frustration because I kept hoping the problem would eventually be resolved. Unfortunately, after more than three years of ongoing issues at this property, I can honestly say that my experience has been overwhelmingly negative.
If you are considering TPG, my advice would be to carefully consider whether you are willing to spend significant time chasing support when problems arise. Based on my experience, the service has been unreliable, the issues have remained unresolved, and the customer support process has been exhausting.
After six years as a customer, I am deeply disappointed and cannot recommend TPG based on my experience.
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Worst service. Anytime the internet goest down. Cancellation needs 30 days heads up. Never seen with my past ISPs. They randomly increasing my plan and price without my approval. Will never opt TPG - the king of bogus isps. Show details
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I first used TPG when I was in Perth in 2011 and had a good experience. Fast forward to 2026 and Im using home 5G internet. About 2 years ago I was getting very slow speeds and after many calls I think they bumped up my speed in the background and this fixed the problem. For the last 12 months its been dropout. I run my Foxtel 4 box via the… Read more
internet and there are many freezes or drop outs using TPG. Even the better buffering Youtube on my computer will stop. Note I'm not a gamer and there is rarely more than one device on at home. The issue is not speed so much as stability/latency/ping. See attached and the TPG service always comes back as BAD. Many calls to TPG has not fixed this. What is really frustrating is the "Ill get a specific tec to call you back" does not happen. Last week I tried to cancel my plan, the tec could not transfer me to accounts, said they would call back within 20 mins, and no call comes! I also had a case where they were double billing me and this was a ding-dong to sort out.
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Good Speeds behind a Bad ISP Always had problems with TPG but since swapping to NBN there have been less problems. Still hate the Company though The Customer Service for TPG are probs the worst thing I’ve ever experienced, I swear to god they hire Monkeys to work in Customer Service. Show details
Absolutely no response from customer service despite the uptenth email I had written to them complaining that I had no internet with 12 hours of being connected. Numerous phone calls to customer services with waits well over 1 hour. Call backs never occurred despite the message saying I would not loose my place in the queue. I was told on more… Read more
than one occassion that my case had been escalated upwards, but no folliw up communication with TPG was received. When I tried to cancel the non service, they tried to unsellable a different service!! I never want anything to do with TPG ever again or their appauling service. If I could have given them a minus score I would have. Test speeds were appauling during the short I did have a connection.
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I recently had a truly disappointing experience with TPG Broadband's home wireless service, and if I could leave a negative review, I absolutely would. From the outset, the connection was very unreliable and spotty at best, often dropping out entirely during crucial moments. Customer service was equally frustrating; when I reached out for help, I… Read more
faced long wait times and unhelpful responses that left me feeling completely ignored.
To make matters worse, the speeds promised were nowhere near what I was receiving, making everyday tasks impossible. It became so bad that speed tests often failed due to the extremely low speeds I was experiencing. Overall, my experience with TPG has been nothing short of atrocious. It's hard to believe that a compaI recently had a truly disappointing experience with TPG Broadband's home wireless service, and if I could leave a negative review, I absolutely would. From the outset, the connection was very unreliable and spotty at best, often dropping out entirely during crucial moments. Customer service was equally frustrating; when I reached out for help, I faced long wait times and unhelpful responses that left me feeling completely ignored.
To make matters worse, the speeds promised were nowhere near what I actually received, making everyday tasks impossible. At times, I experienced speeds as low as 46 kbps, which is far below the 5 Mbps that is typically considered usable. It became so frustrating that speed tests often failed due to the extremely low speeds I was encountering. Overall, my experience with TPG has been nothing short of atrocious. It's hard to believe that a company could provide such subpar service while still charging customers for it. If you’re considering TPG for your broadband needs, I would strongly advise looking elsewhere.
They claim that the speeds are an average of 15/2 Mbps, but I often found myself stuck with speeds of just 1 Mbps down and 0.5 Mbps up.
Edit: I found a better provider.ny could provide such a subpar service while still charging for it. If you’re considering TPG for your broadband needs, I would strongly advise looking elsewhere.
They claim that the speeds are 15/2 mbps avg, but I had experienced 1mbps down and 0.5 mbps up
Edit i found a better provider
If I could give a negative review - I would and I'd gladly pay money to give such a review! Been long time customers without any issue until last week when our NBN service was unprovisioned without warning or reason. Bills were paid on time and there were never any issues on our side. As of writing it has been 7 days without NBN service. Abysmal… Read more
customer service, even tried to hustle/gaslight us to paying for their mistake.
Cutting a long story short: - Multiple calls (+7 calls) with long wait times or durations (>1hr calls) that went from department to department, each time having to authenticate and re-explain ourselves each time because the staff obviously just handball the inquiry to the next and no one knows what they're doing. We talked to Relocation, Billing, Customer Service, Technical, Engineering. We know all the guys, they love us!
- Fault was due to neighbours signing onto NBN, which also happened to be with TPG. Our service was incorrectly and erroneously unprovisioned to provision their service as we both live on a subdivided property. We have mentioned this to TPG many times and each time it has fallen on deaf ears.
- We were 'escalated' to the Relocation team which advised us that a Relocation fee was in order and they would sign us to new contract at the 'new address' which was at a signficantly higher cost to what we ordinarily paid. We did what any sensible person would do and refused their kind offer. After all, why should we pay for their mistake?
- Both Technical and Engineering teams have said on multiple occasions that they'd call back to redress the issue. Never once received a callback from TPG. In fact, we had to chase them up with a call nearly daily to ensure they were kept on task and again each time having to re-explain the issue again and again and again...
- Technical team at one point said that our connection was active and went as far as to gaslight and blame us for the fault in the connection. They mentioned that the NBN connection was already provisioned onto UNI-D Port 2 which was incorrect. Upon learnign that we were using a third-party router, they immediately changed tack and blamed the issue on our use of this router. For reference, we had been using this router successfully prior to the disconnection. Out of curiosity we went to the our neighbours and checked their NTD box. Lo and behold, both of their UNI-D 1 and 2 ports were active! Port 1 was running at the neighbour's specified speed (25mbps) and UNI-D 2 was running at our speed (50mbps). See attached images. So not only had they fumbled our connection initially but they had also fumbled fixing the issue! Incredible! For additional context, this was despite us providing them images of the S/N of our NTD box along with evidence of our residential address.
So at the conclusion of writing, we are still left waiting for TPG to fix our service.
My advice, pay the additional service fee and go to a reputable brand that knows what they're doing.
If you're on a TPG service and not having any issues, bless your cotton socks because the day will come where you will rue the day you signed up to TPG.
Mums been trying to get internet set up for last month, TPG are useless and keep saying the modem is connected to internet on their end and that it’s a router/wifi issue. Mums paid for over a month of internet with no access, she was on the phone daily with them to get it resolved, I just spent 45min on phone with tech support, they ignored me… Read more
when I asked if the cut cable has anything to do with, after confirming setup is correct they are finally going to send a technician out to premises. Check the photos - the problem is pretty clear to me, TPG rather charge mum for the internet, say the same thing (it’s the modem or wifi, we see modem is connected to internet) and leave us with no access rather than send a technician out
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Have had the service since December and have experienced no unsolved problems. Get relatively consistent speeds for both down- and up-loads. I cannot recall any sustained issues - or really any at all to be honest. The one time I did have issues… Read more
was during the (early hours, before the public was aware of) major blackout on the Vodafone network, but when I spoke to an agent they walked me through troubleshooting and all to try and get me back to the promised speeds and consistent service. They even made a note and case for it to follow up. Cannot fault the service of the technical support centre at all.
Follow-up · So, have now had the service a bit longer and the issues have truly started. First is the now frequent speed drops - like almost daily I am only getting 20mbps down. Not to mention they make the process of cancelling your service as painful as possible; I went on to the web portal to initiate the cancellation, and input my new address (which is… Read more
I have been a customer of TPG for the past 15 years and recently I've moved to a new address. I have had the worst service from them I could ever imagine. I will never go with them again and wish I had never paid them a cent. For fifteen years I've… Read more
been paying them around 55 dollars a month. That's a lot of money when added up, and when I want help, they give me 0. Instead they cancel my service telling me my mobile broadband would not work at my new address, after I tested it and found it did in fact work. Not only did it work, it worked better than it did at my previous address. Still I was told, they could not reverse the cancellation they themselves had put on my service, and reiterated that it doesn't work at my new address. I note that on their website they also say that my old address does not work for mobile broadband either, and yet it was a working service there until I moved. They blatantly lied and lost a loyal customer. After seven lengthy calls to their departments that promised calls back to me from supervisors that never came, I gave up. Stay away from this company!
Follow-up · Although I was a long term customer of TPG. I’ve had no response from them in order to rectify the situation. No care on their behalf. They push their lies under the carpet and do nothing to honour their customers’ long relationship with them.
I purchased NBN and a new modem, TPG could not connect me so I cancelled the order and the modem. They refunded the NBN amount of $64.00 and STILL have not got my modem refund ($114.95) even with STARTRAX collecting the modem they would not refund… Read more
me. Their customer service team is woeful and not trained in how to handle a customer that needs help. Vivian was not helpful other than repeating himself over and over. DO NOT USE TPG for NBN. I stayed with SPINTEL after all the hassle and they even walked me though connecting my GOOGLE mesh system. SPINTEL were extremely helpful. TPG NO HELP WHATSOEVER!!!!!!
Follow-up · After a whole week of TPG trying to connect me and escalating the issue to various people. They still couldn’t connect me. So I went to various ISP’s and eventually went back to Aussie Broadband. As they have human tech support 7 days a week. Might be more expensive but at least you have price of mind knowing tech support is there and you can talk to someone rather than online chat.
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Positive reviews
I responded to an offer from TPG for this service. I was assured my existing modem would work, I provided the details of the modem and was told that the installer would make the system work. The service man was rude and didn’t make the connection… Read more · 2
work. I then spent over an hour on the phone to try and get a connection. He concluded that the modem. A TPlink link archer was not able to be used. Waiting for an engineer!
Follow-up · Ok. Seems there’s variability with their consultants. The next person was very helpful and got the system working, the initial url was wrong. Now 10x the old speed at the same price. Origin energy then offered a better deal but I moved to Red aenergy for everything
Had couple of stuff that I needed to sort with TPG. Spoke with their hot line crew. Monty, Raymond and then Ankit. They were all superb from the beginning. Clear instructions and super friendly. Attended to the matters right away. Sorted all issues and now we are enjoying the service as usual. Waiting to sort out the last issue ( Download… Read more
speed ) It’s been nearly a decade with TPG now. It’s all thanks to their staff like Monty, Raymond and Ankit etc.
I have been very happy with the service provided. After placing the order the modem arrived 2 days later and installation 2 days later. The technician was efficient and punctual. He even rang TPG to activate the service after installation. The service is running very smoothly and at the speeds promised FTTB Max (700Mbps). Bought a Wfi extender to boost signal in bedroom and it works well. Show details
Negative reviews
Told by Designe in accounts on 5th September that our monthly fee would be refunded in full as long as we swapped providers within seven days, because the monthly fee is prepaid and we were cancelling prior to commencement of that prepaid period. Then I received an invoice saying we had a credit of $11 only not the full monthly fee of $115.… Read more
Followed up with [Name Removed] on September 9th who said it would be investigated and he would send through confirmation as whatever was promised would be honoured. Receive no communication whatsoever from [Name Removed]. Followed up again with Maika on the 18th of September. She said the same thing [Name Removed] said and did nothing just like [Name Removed] did. It's now the 3rd of October I still haven't seen any money I still haven't heard from anyone and I can see that they are just giving me the runaround.
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The worst crappiest internet ever. 2 days without internet and to say the staff are hopeless they do not speak English at all. TERRIBLE TERRIBLE TERRIBLE. Run as fast as you can.
I was a Westnet customer. But that esteemed company was taken over by iiNet. In turn TPG bought them out. At each step the quality of customer support declined. Now it is automated, and nearly impossible to talk to a person at TPG. Their voice instructions vary so much from the email data they send that the instructions seem to be created for… Read more
a different company. Then there is the fiasco of "outsourcing" their email to The Messaging Company - another poor result for users, and an additional expense. Satisfaction with an ISP is not just measured by the NBN speed, the services offered and support are also important factors. It may be nice for TPG to claim how big they are, but it does not help if we customers feel ignored and abused by their corporate games. I will be looking elsewhere.
Recent reviews
Worst internet provider experience I’ve ever had. I signed up with TPG because they told me they were the only provider that could offer optical fibre in my building. Two days after signing up and paying, TPG called to tell me that the service they had sold me was actually not available in my building and that they would need to downgrade my… Read more
service instead. I was told I would receive a call within 24–48 hours to organise the installation.
Three days passed with no call, so I contacted TPG myself, only to find out they had cancelled my service without telling me and without refunding my payment.
I then spent around three hours on the phone, being transferred from department to department, just trying to get my money back. After all of that, I was told the refund could take up to 10 business days.
Selling me a service that wasn’t available, cancelling my account without notifying me, keeping my payment, and then making me spend hours chasing a refund is completely unacceptable.
Definitely the worst experience I’ve ever had with an internet provider. I would not recommend TPG.
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Terrible customer service, totally screwed up my move TWICE ! cut me off early despite double checking dates then had to pay again to have my service that I had already paid for, reinstated, hours and hours wasted on phone calls, never again !!!! RUN DONT WALK AWAY Show details
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