Tiscali Broadband 150kbs Any Good?

I am thinking of going over to broadband for purely 'always on' and
'not tying up phone line' reasons. I was considering Tiscali but have
heard lots of people slagging them off in various newsgroups.

It seems that the main moans are as follows...

1) Hard to cancel contract

2) Some people seem to get very slow connection speeds (ie less than
dial up) but it seems that the reason behind this slow connection is
for heavy users where Tiscali deliberatley downgrade their connection?
(I am a light user so hope to avoid this issue!)

3) Tech support is very poor!

I just want to hear if anyone has any other good/bad experiences with
them or can recommend a sub £20 broadband account.

Thanks for your help

David Bevan

http://www.davidbevan.co.uk
http://www.websphereusergroup.org.uk

DO NOT go with Tiscali, they are the worst ISP I have ever used.

www.plusnet.co.uk is one of the best

otherwise, www.adslguide.com

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David <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I am thinking of going over to broadband for purely 'always on' and
> 'not tying up phone line' reasons. I was considering Tiscali but have
> heard lots of people slagging them off in various newsgroups.
>
> It seems that the main moans are as follows...
>
> 1) Hard to cancel contract
>
> 2) Some people seem to get very slow connection speeds (ie less than
> dial up) but it seems that the reason behind this slow connection is
> for heavy users where Tiscali deliberatley downgrade their connection?
> (I am a light user so hope to avoid this issue!)
>
> 3) Tech support is very poor!
>
> I just want to hear if anyone has any other good/bad experiences with
> them or can recommend a sub £20 broadband account.
>
> Thanks for your help
>
> David Bevan
>
> http://www.davidbevan.co.uk
> http://www.websphereusergroup.org.uk

"David" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed) om...
> I am thinking of going over to broadband for purely 'always on' and
> 'not tying up phone line' reasons. I was considering Tiscali but have
> heard lots of people slagging them off in various newsgroups.
>
> It seems that the main moans are as follows...
>
> 1) Hard to cancel contract
>
> 2) Some people seem to get very slow connection speeds (ie less than
> dial up) but it seems that the reason behind this slow connection is
> for heavy users where Tiscali deliberatley downgrade their connection?
> (I am a light user so hope to avoid this issue!)
>
> 3) Tech support is very poor!

Also Tiscali's billing systems are said to be very poor for many customers.

> I just want to hear if anyone has any other good/bad experiences with
> them or can recommend a sub £20 broadband account.

Depending on how light a user you are http://www.metronet.co.uk/adsl/paygo
may suit you - people who have this seem very happy.

Also, if you don't use P2P or binary newsgroups Plusnet offer a £18.99/month
account.

Slightly above £20 you have a much wider range of possible accounts from
other ISP's. (including Pipex. Bulldog, and Plusnet with P2P/binary
newsgroup access)

In addition, all of the above I have mentioned are 512K services and not
150K like Tiscali's.

Regards
Sunil

On 03 Dec 2003, David wrote

> I am thinking of going over to broadband for purely 'always on'
> and 'not tying up phone line' reasons. I was considering Tiscali
> but have heard lots of people slagging them off in various
> newsgroups.

> It seems that the main moans are as follows...

-snip-

> I just want to hear if anyone has any other good/bad experiences
> with them or can recommend a sub £20 broadband account.
>
> Thanks for your help

I know Tiscali gets slagged off in here, but my neighbour 2 doors down
went on the 150K service a couple of weeks ago, and he is one seriously
happy puppy.

In fact, it's almost hard to stop him babbling about how the install
went perfectly smoothly -- the usual couple of settings to adjust in
the transferring from his Freeserve dial-up -- and that it's the first
time in years he's bought something which did precisely what it
promised to do.

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"Steven Burn" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> DO NOT go with Tiscali, they are the worst ISP I have ever used.
>
> www.plusnet.co.uk is one of the best
>
> otherwise, www.adslguide.com

Erm - you mean http://www.adslguide.org.uk/ or http://www.adslguide.org/ no?

The .com web site is run by someone else and is nowhere as good..

Regards
Sunil

hehe woops.....yep, .org ;o)

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Sunil Sood <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>
> "Steven Burn" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:bqloja$2433i1$(E-Mail Removed)...
> > DO NOT go with Tiscali, they are the worst ISP I have ever used.
> >
> > www.plusnet.co.uk is one of the best
> >
> > otherwise, www.adslguide.com
>
> Erm - you mean http://www.adslguide.org.uk/ or http://www.adslguide.org/
no?
>
> The .com web site is run by someone else and is nowhere as good..
>
> Regards
> Sunil
>
>

On 3 Dec 2003 14:28:51 -0800, (E-Mail Removed) (David) wrote:

>I am thinking of going over to broadband for purely 'always on' and
>'not tying up phone line' reasons. I was considering Tiscali but have
>heard lots of people slagging them off in various newsgroups.
>
I've been on it a month now and am very pleased with it.. I was on
Freeserve anytime which used to seize up and go dead after schools out
time and between 7-10pm. This is far better, it breezes along. Only
gripe I could have is there are no Binary newsgroups on the Tiscali
newsserver but I've sorted that. Certainly saving a packet on not
needing call diverts to my mobile. Although there are moaners about
Tiscali, a few friends are happy with their dialup and I know no-one
else on 150.

Bert.

In article <bqlosa$24aufr$(E-Mail Removed)>,
"Sunil Sood" <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:
>
> "David" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed) om...
>> I am thinking of going over to broadband for purely 'always on' and
>> 'not tying up phone line' reasons. I was considering Tiscali but have
>> heard lots of people slagging them off in various newsgroups.
>>
>> It seems that the main moans are as follows...
>>
>> 1) Hard to cancel contract

Was able to cancel my anytime contract earlier this year without
problems.

>>
>> 2) Some people seem to get very slow connection speeds (ie less than
>> dial up) but it seems that the reason behind this slow connection is
>> for heavy users where Tiscali deliberatley downgrade their connection?
>> (I am a light user so hope to avoid this issue!)
>>
>> 3) Tech support is very poor!
>
> Also Tiscali's billing systems are said to be very poor for many customers.

Depends on your definition of poor. It could be regarded as advantages
for them to take 11 months to bill you

Then again Plusnet have some idiots who don't understand "book me the
first available date for HH to ADSL and let me know what it is"

JAB.

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On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 23:07:59 +0000, bertram <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>On 3 Dec 2003 14:28:51 -0800, (E-Mail Removed) (David) wrote:
>
>>I am thinking of going over to broadband for purely 'always on' and
>>'not tying up phone line' reasons. I was considering Tiscali but have
>>heard lots of people slagging them off in various newsgroups.
>>
>I've been on it a month now and am very pleased with it.. I was on
>Freeserve anytime which used to seize up and go dead after schools out
>time and between 7-10pm. This is far better, it breezes along. Only
>gripe I could have is there are no Binary newsgroups on the Tiscali
>newsserver but I've sorted that. Certainly saving a packet on not
>needing call diverts to my mobile. Although there are moaners about
>Tiscali, a few friends are happy with their dialup and I know no-one
>else on 150.
>
I forgot to say that adslguide website is a dead loss. After you do
the test it only recognises Tiscali 512 and no lower so all its
results will be wrong as it will show a result of 272 as slow when in
fact it is nearly twice speed.


>Bert.

bertram wrote:

>
> I forgot to say that adslguide website is a dead loss. After you do
> the test it only recognises Tiscali 512 and no lower so all its
> results will be wrong as it will show a result of 272 as slow when in
> fact it is nearly twice speed.
>

You're confused. It's Tiscali that's a dead loss. You can get a true
512k service for £3 per month more. 272 is just half of what I get.
ADSLGuide is spot-on.