My god this is awful. The entire weekend my net connection with Tiscali has been so slow that YouTube, podcasts, BBC news and even Gmail have been pretty much unusable. I tried running a speed test just now and it timed out!
I now realise why I’ve always found broadband hell stories so boring – it was because I was living in a HomeChoice bubble! Broadband (DSL at least) has seriously crashed and burned in the four years we’ve been on our HomeChoice LLU cable. There was I wondering why people would grumble about getting less than 8Mb when our 2Mb connection gave me more than I could possibly download at speeds I was perfectly happy with. That’s because it was running at pretty much full speed the whole time.Now that we’ve been booted on to Tiscali’s execrable DSL system, I know what all the fuss is about. This is a disgrace. Something has to be done.
Current candidates are Sky and Virgin, and possibly Be. The complicator is the TV though. Tiscali is a TV/Broadband/Phone bundle. Coincidentally, FreeSat launches next month – or does it? Despite being a huge BBC/ITV joint venture, it seems more like a top-secret SAS mission. Not even Lord Grade’s mother knows the truth, I’ll be bound. Mind you, if it’s all a Great British Cock-up (as I rather suspect), there’s always FreeSat From Sky. Good to know we still have good branding agencies in this country, eh?
im with sky and between 6-9pm its really slow (or they throttle web traffic). outside of those hours i get up to 12mb from their 16mb service.
ive only ever heard good things about be in london, however you dont get the price benefit of double / triple / quadruple play etc
Good luck! I’ve been with Virgin since they took over NTL. The admin / customer support sucks – but that’s kind of de riguer these days.
I have consistently good download speeds just under 400 KB/s on a good day and the upload speed has improved recently ( I get about 45 – 50 KB/s per second).
Its a bit pricey at £25 per month. But you could haggle.
PS. Have you tracked down Stuart or a minion recently ? ;)