bazza_g Posted September 29, 2005 Report Share Posted September 29, 2005 OK, for the last couple of years I've had a nice little 512kbs service from Zen Internet - no problems, no reason to even call the customer service department. However, my old work paid for that and when I left I signed up for a Tiscali 2mbs connection which went live today. I'm not impressed. Using various internet connection speedometers I've only managed between 300kbs and 600kbs - including the ones from BT and Speedcheck.ispconnect.co.uk who's results can be seen by the Tiscali customer services. Even downloading a file from tucows.com only shows a download speed of between 30KB/s and 50KB/s ??? I thought I had been setup with a 1/2 meg link ? But 30 mins to customer service revealed nothing on the setup or line test so its been refered to their next line of engineers..... Lady T's laptop shows the same slow connection 'feel' as mine and I've got microfilters on all the phone points in the flat. I knew it was too good to be true - any ideas most welcome ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danksy Posted September 29, 2005 Report Share Posted September 29, 2005 Have you tried someone elses modem to check? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hopsta Posted September 29, 2005 Report Share Posted September 29, 2005 cancel your subscription and get a proper ISP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bazza_g Posted September 29, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 29, 2005 First attempt was setup via my Belkin ADSL wireless router. For the second attempt I've just installed the Sagem ADSL modem that arrived in the box and connected using that. It states the connection speed as 2.3mbs in the task bar but the actual downloads speeds are unchanged, fecking slow 300-400kbs and 30KB/s downloading big files. Still worse than my old 512 service ?!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bazza_g Posted September 29, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 29, 2005 [ QUOTE ] cancel your subscription and get a proper ISP [/ QUOTE ] I'm beginning to think that, I did ask around at work and there were several people on 2mbs Tiscali signing its praises !! Zen were expensive but had brilliant service levels.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparky Posted September 29, 2005 Report Share Posted September 29, 2005 Sorry mate, but they are one of the worst ISP's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hopsta Posted September 30, 2005 Report Share Posted September 30, 2005 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saab Posted September 30, 2005 Report Share Posted September 30, 2005 I'd agree - i have Tiscali and there have been nothing but problems from day 1 - as soon as I can I'll cancel my subscription and find another ISP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOSE Posted September 30, 2005 Report Share Posted September 30, 2005 Have been with Tiscali since 2000, never had a moments grief with it, apart from my own errors. There are times when the connection speeds seem low, but I put this down to the wirelss business. Have been considering getting a danglers bulldog connection, but apparently the phone lines around here do not support such a fast connection, so I am told!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bazza_g Posted September 30, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 30, 2005 looks like we are back in action on the speed side of things - the selection of 3 speed checks are showing approx 1.9mbs, that'll do for me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bazza_g Posted September 30, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 30, 2005 well I'm more than happy with this result Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milo Posted September 30, 2005 Report Share Posted September 30, 2005 Liked the look of that download so registered and downloaded all 35 minutes myself Nice background tunes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Durrsaku Posted September 30, 2005 Report Share Posted September 30, 2005 I have the 2mb service from Tiscali and never had any problems with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bazza_g Posted October 1, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 1, 2005 [ QUOTE ] Liked the look of that download so registered and downloaded all 35 minutes myself Nice background tunes [/ QUOTE ] Some top tunes in that mix - am heading into town shortly to buy the new(ish) Plump DJ's Album : Saturday Night Lotion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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