I've signed up my student house to Tiscali...
I fear now reading some of the opinions on this board that they are awful. Support is dreadful (which doesn't bother me really, if there are no line problems then I won't have to use them!), reliability is patchy and their fair use policy is called into question.
I'm also worried about port shaping. I'm not entirely sure what this is, but it affects bittorrents, which is something that a few of us in the house use (not excessively, just a couple of files a week).
Last year I looked at their fair use policy, and it basically said 'please don't download', so I signed up with ukonline (Loads of connection problems then ensued, lasting weeks, so that's why I'm not going back). This time I looked at Tiscali's policy and it has changed to 'please don't download during peak hours, or we'll limit you... otherwise, go nuts!'... or at least that's how I interpret it. The £14.99 price made me jump for it (I was also looking at pipex, who were more expensive, had a limit, and didn't recognise my phone number), coupled with the fact that they said yes to our phone number (we are in Lancaster, which must have the worlds oldest telephone exchange, and the whole city sits in some sort of technology blind spot...) I jumped for it, but was I wrong to do so?
At home we are on orange, and have never ever had speed or connection problems, but the low download limits put me off using them elsewhere (we've had letters from them at home for excessive usage).
Basically, I'm asking if tiscali have changed their ways... or am I in for a year of torment?
P.S. Is there any hope in this migration code thing I've head briefly about?


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), so I'll give it a few days and see.

