Cerberus Networks Reviews 

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Well informed and undated regularly, arrived 5 mins before expected and had the job done with politeness and tidiness, even in the extreme heat. The engineers are a merit to the company

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

I've been using Cerberus' FTTP service for several years now and it has been faultless. Customer service is always excellent, they've even got in touch with me to offer cheaper packages that are suita... See more

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

We're over the 18 month mark in waiting for our fibre connection. Have been provided meaningless 'time-frames' which have come and gone. Cerberus' have an innate inability and laxness to manage and ch... See more

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

FTToD order, very happy with communications from Cerberus. I think over 9 months I only had a handful of missed updates. The updates they give are always a week or two behind, but thats clearly OpenR... See more

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Established in 2006, our team has many years of experience and expertise in Internet services, hosting, IT systems and security and firmly believe that our approach delivers real value for our clients. We are committed to bringing new and innovative services to market and invest in our organisation to ensure we deliver the highest levels of service at all times. We take pride in the services we deliver, providing intelligent solutions to business challenges. Whether combining SIP telephony with QoS-enabled broadband services, or building a managed wide area network with hosted security and computing resources, Cerberus has the tools and insight to provide a superior technical solution that maximises our clients' capabilities without compromising on cost or ease of use.


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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Poor communication, endless delays, generally no idea

I've had 6 months of repeatedly contacting Cereberus to ask about an order. No updates from them. The Openreach guys in the street always knew more. Mistakes on systems, no clear instructions, times for when different people would be coming around. I'm not sure how they could have been worse.

4 June 2021
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Hello Jason.

I'm sorry you did not have a good experience with your Fibre on Demand order. Although we have automated the information flow that comes from Openreach to ensure that you get all the updates that we see in a timely manner, it can sometimes be the case that the updates are out of date by the time they get to you.

When asked to obtain an update for a network build, we will always check the latest information from Openreach and chase them if they have not done something that they should. Where needed, we will always escalate to make sure that things stay on track.

Your service was live in 7 months from accepting the build charges. That's well within the 6-9 month average build time, so although the comms might not have been great, this hasn't affected the time it took to deliver your service.

I hope the new service delivers and, now that we are actually providing your Internet service, you will enjoy the significantly faster speeds and improved reliability.

We always make sure that customer feedback is passed on to Openreach so that they can improve. We will do that here.

All the best,

The team at Cerberus.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Great Company, Great Staff, Honest and Trustworthy.

I have been a customer of Cerberus for 11 or more years now, always exemplary service. I have just upgraded and have found the service to be as good as always. They may not be the cheapest, But I don't want cheap, I want what they provide. I love it when I get prospective business call saying they can provide a cheaper package. I just reply, But I like paying more, because I get more. And put the phone down. Great Company, Great Staff, Honest and Trustworthy.
Best Regards
Alan Webb :-)

23 May 2021
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Poor communication / pretty amateurish

Very poor communication, both in clarity and in me having to chase them, even when they have committed to get back to me within certain time frames.

Openreach have been great, and given me more information than Cerberus who are meant to be managing my connection!?!

7 April 2021
Unprompted review
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

A pretty good experience

Took roughly almost 2 years to finish my order but that was down to Openreach.

The only downside I noticed is that I didn’t always get an update from Cerberus on what’s happening with my order.

Otherwise it was pretty smooth sailing.

29 January 2021
Rated 2 out of 5 stars

Took over 1 week

Took over 1 week, with chasing up to find out what was going on with our order, and then to find out it was an incorrect order.

No explanation as to why the order was created inaccurately.

10 December 2020
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Great team work

The Cerebus team are always responsive & helpful. Recently when something didn’t go quite right they investigated promptly and rectified the issue.

24 October 2020
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Great company

Great company. Provided valuable support during a prolonged FTTP installation. You are allocated a named person to direct queries to which helps with continuity. I am very pleased with my new Fibre connection. Post installation billing & support has also been good so far. Would definitely recommend.

1 October 2020
Unprompted review
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Excellent

After years and years of completely sub standard and on many occasions no service from BT we switched to Cerberus on a recommendation. I am so very glad we did.
We live very remotely with complicated copper lines, junction boxes etc. Etc. And for years we just put up with what we were told was “the best we can expect living where you do” although the 7 years of issues started and were caused by damage to the cables which BT just never repaired properly.
After just 1 month Cerberus have not only increased down and up load speeds a lot but have made the line stable.
Last night was a “yureka” moment when we were able to have our first stable, clear video call. For years we have had to rent office space to be able to just work although we both work from home. It looks as if this is now a thing of the past.
The tech team are amazing and stick with you all the way on an issue. No anonymous call centres where you have to spend an hour explaining the problem you have already explained 4 times that day.
Honestly, if you want an IP provider that really knows what they are doing, cares about their customers and delivers results use these guys.
I wish I had known about them years ago.
EXCELLENT company.

8 September 2020
Unprompted review
Rated 2 out of 5 stars

Don’t trust build estimates

We contacted Cerberus after hearing about FTTPoD and following a good pre-sales discussion and favourable preliminary build estimate we decided to go ahead with a survey for two properties on a linked order.

We’d been assured repeatedly by Cerberus that:

A) the preliminary build estimates were always higher than the real final cost

B) linking multiple properties would allow us to share the build cost.

We had issues in getting the survey properly completed for both properties - Cerberus attributes these to BT and OpenReach which seems to be a common theme (or excuse). It took several weeks and there was limited communication except when I chased up by email / phone.

Eventually we received a quotation for DOUBLE the original estimate - over £12k for the installation.

If we’d had any guidance whatsoever that the costs would be so high, we would not have paid for the survey or wasted the time and effort in this process.

Clearly they will attribute this ‘surprise’ to poor data from OpenReach - however as Cerberus are self proclaimed experts in FTTPoD, I can only conclude that we have been completely misled here.

Cerberus have not offered to refund the survey costs despite their inaccurate/misleading guidance.

It is immaterial to us whether the real fault lies with them or OpenReach, they need to take responsibility and if necessary recover any of their costs from OpenReach.

It is clearly easy to blame their suppliers (read the other reviews and see how often an OpenReach or BT problem is cited).

Very disappointing, tread carefully if considering FTTPoD.

5 September 2020
Unprompted review

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