OT : Tiscali

I'm at my sisters at the moment, and she has Tiscali broadband (I think
the 8Mbps package)

Are they always this crap?

Come 5pm, just about everything stops.

FTP : dead
MSN : messages missing left, right and center.
SSH : dead
Web : slows down drastically, about 50% of sites unreachable
NNTP : dead
Email : slow

Had a google (before 5pm) and it seems they turn on their "anti P2P"
measures during busy times, which are listed as 7am to 1am (IIRC), but
most of the time they actually turn them on at 5pm, when sprogs get
home from school.

Bloody anti P2P? Anti everything more like.

I've resorted to using the work mobile and connecting through that via
GPRS if I need to do anything important.


Absolute crap. Avoid. Do not touch with someone elses 8' pole.

 

A brother-in-law has the 8Mb Tiscali package, and yes it's absolute shite
most of the time and rarely faster than my 1Mb Pipex connection. P2P is
severely throttled too and virtually useless.

 

Yes. My boy child was with them and eventually gave up on them,. but after
he cancelled, they took their own sweet time releasing his "link" (or
whatever it is that stops you getting service off anyone else).

He was off line for over a month with Tiscali.

Yep, they did that and throttled his "non throttled" connection too. All
sorts of shite excuses, but in the end, he binned them.

I bought him a 10 footer, just to be on the safe side.


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