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Tiscali...

As previously mentioned Tiscali offer an extremely low price, low quality and shaped to crap service.

These are the guys that restrict people's service for daring to use 350MB in a week between 6pm and midnight.

Same with Carphone Warehouse, offering their service 'free' and shaped to hell, and BT.

All symptomatic of the UK regulator artificially inflating the prices that they pay for wholesale access to the ILEC network to encourage unbundling of COs and promote competition, however even some of those doing that are offering services so cheap that they are shaping to make the numbers work, Carphone being one of them.

Tiscali have unbundled some, but are using it purely to drive costs for themselves down, still shape their customers to crap.

BT are the only ISP that use their interconnect method, and they have a small army of Ellacoyas to control traffic.

As with so many other things you get what you pay for and hopefully this will convince all the people who snubbed paying a few bucks more for a better service of that.
permalink · 2007-08-13 13:16:44 · Print · Reply to this

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Re: Tiscali...

said by Ignite See Profile :

As previously mentioned Tiscali offer an extremely low price, low quality and shaped to crap service.

These are the guys that restrict people's service for daring to use 350MB in a week between 6pm and midnight.

Same with Carphone Warehouse, offering their service 'free' and shaped to hell, and BT.
Virgin cable upgraded their max speed to 20Mb, and then restricted usage between 4pm-12am. I am on 2Mb (£17.99) and if I download 350Mb between those times my connection goes to crap. It should be 1Mb/128k (throttled) but the lag on it is awful.
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