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Lampies L

1 reviews | Active since May 2024

08 May 2024, 10:58

Lets blame Forgfoot for our failed Service Migration

My internet connection stopped working on Monday morning 3:57 on 6th of May 2024. I used the whatsapp channel to report the issue but was directed to download the Home Connect App instead. Downloaded the App and created an issue report, but was unable to see it in the App. I then phoned the Home-Connect support centre and was told there was a Frogfoot outage in the Western Cape, all affected clients would be down. On Tuesday I phoned the Support centre again as my service was still down, I asked if they could give me any indication of the problem, or how long they expect it to take to resolve, they simply gave me the same response as the day before. I asked why they were not posting the same to their public network outage page, but did not get any response. I called Frogfoot and they did a quick test and confirmed they were able to access my ONT device successfully - this made sense since all light were green and the rest of the Frogfoot customers in my street with other ISPs are unaffected. I called Home Connect Support again and asked them why they were blaming Frogfoot, when Frogfoot says the connection to my house is unaffected? They said that I should not belive Frogfoot and that they were "****s" - my response was that that is an unexpected statement, since they are using them as a service provider. The support staff were unable to give me any further details and promised to phone me back with an update - they never did. Later on Tuesday I received the first call from Home-Connect, in response to the support service request I had made in the app, they simply phoned to confirm that there was a Frogfoot outage affecting me -they were unable to share any further details. On Wednesday morning 8 May 2024 my internet is still down. I called the contact centre again and reach the same consultant that promised they would phone me back. This time they wanted me to do troubleshooting by unplugging my router and connecting the network cable directly to my mac to manually dial a PPPoE connection as a test, this request while they are fully aware of an outage affecting many customers, was not appreciated from my side. The agent then created a Frogfoot service request *** for my link which has an issue. The agent then re-iterated that Home-Connect does not have anything to do with the outage and they just needed to wait for Frogfoot - no indication of a resolution time. I refused to accept their response and requested more detail about the issue, to which the agent responded explaining that Home Connect had done a planned server migration from "safhost" to "Afrihost" and that there had been issues since. I called them out and asked how that was related to Frogfoot at all? Why was Home Connect customers not notified about a planned service affecting migration? Why when it was clear that the migration was unsuccessful did they not roll back? Why is my internet still affected? Why are you blaming your service provider instead of taking ownership for your network management?

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Replies (8)
Home-Connect
Home-Connect's reply08 May 2024, 11:01
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 Dear valued customer, thank you for the feedback. Kindly note an agent will be in contact shortly to assist. 
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Lampies L's update08 May 2024, 12:36
Reviewer Update
Thank you for your instant automated bot response. I would however appreciate some real action.
Home-Connect
Home-Connect's reply08 May 2024, 13:09
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Dear Lampies, your details has been sent to our Escalations department to assist with your query. Kindly expect a call.
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Lampies L's update08 May 2024, 13:58
Reviewer Update
The only time I get to speak to folks in the Home-Connect support center is when I call you. This is regardless of the many times you promise to call back. I really do have an issue with the quality of support received from your support centre. Still no contact from escalations - I had to phone you once again to ask for an update.
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Lampies L's update08 May 2024, 15:29
Reviewer Update
Still no contact from escalations. So seems like you migrated from Cipherwave to Afrihost and never completed my migration. Still your support agents try to tell me that my link is down because of Frogfoot. Thats just not right, could you please get hold of me?
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Lampies L's update08 May 2024, 15:38
Reviewer Update
Just received the first call from Musi at Home-connect Escalations confirming that they are investigating a fault with the Home-Connect configuration for my link.
Home-Connect
Home-Connect's reply08 May 2024, 16:11
Official
Thank you for the feedback, Lampies.
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Lampies L's update09 May 2024, 08:57
Reviewer Update
Last night at 19:31 I received a call from a Home-Connect technician who first shared another customers Name, Surname and address with me, before proceeding to action a service cancellation. After directing them to my account and query, they told me to test another PPPoE credential, which I had already done before. I again described that I’m not receiving any response from their server, not even an authentication failure so the issue has to be related to L2 connectivity down/vlan trunking or other issue/ or that they maybe had MAC address filtering. I shared my device MAC address with them, this was the second time I did that the evening so far. The technician, similar to previous Home-Connect agents, proceeded to explain that this was a Frogfoot problem and that they had to contact them to assist. I find this hard to believe. Why do you insist on blaming your service provider? My service was restored last night at 19:41 on 8 May 2024.

I’m waiting for Home-Connect leadership to contact me to explain what happened here, and to answer all the questions I posed in my initial post. It seems after all that I was accurate in my title selection. I also wonder how many other customers you disconnected the same way?