tiscali

[Rishi_Rich]

im wid this crap company n want to change 2 someting better. how can i persaude my mum to change? its like too slow n stuff n in evenings some pages like dont load quickly my m8 is with bt n says they are gud.

[TAKTAK]

tri usin lyk propr inglish mert

[TAKTAK]

Ignoring your inability to spell:

IMHO the best ISP's at the minute are:

O2/Be*
Sky (the LLU service, not connect)

[Azza]

Am I the only person that thinks Tiscali are fine?

[Guy]

Am I the only person that thinks Tiscali are fine?

Afraid so, Ive had nothing but problems with them over the years, am moving out next week though, so will prob go to either Multiplay, or Zen.

Never again will I go with Tiscali, NEVER!

[SiM]

wow, 25 posts in a day and a half... all of them one line (except this one, depending on resolution)... someone is after free scan delivery

[peterb]

The conditions state "meaningful contributions" - pity they don't include "no txt spk"

[Agent]

Rishi_Rich - Can we please try and put a bit more effort into our posts?

Talking like you're texting someone on a phone does not go down well on internet forums.

Cheers buddy

[TAKTAK]

Am I the only person that thinks Tiscali are fine?

to put it simply, yes, if you are lucky enough to not have problems then yes they are fine, but as soon as you do have a problem, thats it, no support at all (well atrocious support any way)

[Rishi_Rich]

Rishi_Rich - Can we please try and put a bit more effort into our posts?

Talking like you're texting someone on a phone does not go down well on internet forums.

Cheers buddy

okay I will try harder. i am dyslexic so it is hard for me to concentrate. but i will put it all through spell checker okay?

[Agent]

okay I will try harder. i am dyslexic so it is hard for me to concentrate. but i will put it all through spell checker okay?

I am dyslexic too mate, so believe me, I know how difficult it can be

We aren't spelling Nazi's around here, its just genuinely hard to read 'txt spk' compared to normal words - even if they are spelt incorrectly

If you use Firefox, it has an excellent spell checker built in which can really help. But like I said, every word doesn't have to be spelt correctly, its just better to attempt to spell it over writing it as a text message

Cheers buddy

[Tin Ribs]

I have just moved from Tiscali to Be and I havent looked back. For me its been a great move.If you are not happy with Tiscali there are better ISP's out there.

[kidzer]

my m8 is with bt n says they are gud.

I would disagree in the strongest possible terms with your mate.

I will agree that BT seem to have pretty solid connections, I get ~3Mbps here, 2km from my Exchange, latency is sometimes a bit high - but I dont do much online gaming, and for browsing it isn't such an issue.

So when it works, yeah its quite good.

When it doesn't, its hell. I've had 2 spells of 1/2 months without being able to be connected for more thatn 5mins at a time - the first time was because my SNR was too low to sustain a reliable sync with the exchange - so I asked to have my rate lowered at the exchange from 2Mbps to 1Mbps, had I spoken to someone in the UK, or someone with a modicum of knowledge then this wouldn't have been an issue, unfortunatley BT outsource customer 'care' to India.

I spent many an hour on the phone, each time having to re-explain my situation and explain that I had alreay tried unplugging my Voyager 205, waiting 5 mins and plugging it back in etc, until I came home from school one day and either the Hardware/Software at the exchnage had worked out my connection was unstable and reduced the bandwidth accordingly, or someone had noted what I'd said and passed it to someone who could help - either way, I had my internet connection back eventually!

The 2nd time, I wasn't sure what was wrong, but the same fiasco ensued, and this time just..started working again, without me changing anything, to this day I still dont know for sure what happened.

But yeah, if you are pretty sure you'll never need their customer care then I'd say go for it, but I dont think you can ever be sure of that - so I'll say no, don't go with BT for your ADSL connection.

[DDY]

I was with Pipex until they were sold to Tiscali. Gotta say things have improved after that, my connection no longer drops out and the stupid traffic shaping Pipex imposed without telling me has gone.

[Giraffe]

I was with Pipex until they were sold to Tiscali. Gotta say things have improved after that, my connection no longer drops out and the stupid traffic shaping Pipex imposed without telling me has gone.

Same here: Homecall-Pipex-Tiscali. Bit flakey at about the time that Tiscali took over, then went up from 1.3M - 1.6M to 1.9M - 2.1M. Connection v. rarely drops. Newsgroups download (text only) much faster and Port 119 not blocked so often.

Worrying, really.

[Zadock]

I have just moved from Tiscali to Be and I havent looked back. For me its been a great move.If you are not happy with Tiscali there are better ISP's out there.

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