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impaler
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PostPosted: 21:50 - 25 Jun 2006    Post subject: If you're on Tiscali, read this... Reply with quote

If you're paying £17.99 for 2Mb Unlimited from Tiscali then you're paying too much. The current rate is £14.99 so if you go to the package upgrade section on their website you can change to the same package at the lower price. Thieving bastards.

https://www.ian-atkin.net/blog/index.php/2006/06/25/tiscali-being-sneaky/
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PostPosted: 22:01 - 25 Jun 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

Rolling Eyes This is the 2nd time it's happened, we got 512kb Unlimited for £17.99, then we had to tell them to upgrade to 1MB Unlimited for £14.99, and now I'll have to phone them tomorrow to upgrade us to 2MB Unlimited.

Sneaky gits.

Thanks for the heads up though. Smile Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 22:03 - 25 Jun 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

No probs. You don't need to phone them though, you can do it through the member area on the website if you want.
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PostPosted: 22:10 - 25 Jun 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yeah thanks for that info, just changed it. Could do with saving a couple of quid! Thumbs Up

I think that tiscali are going to be offering 8MB unlimited for £17.99 per month soon (i think it said August or September).
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PostPosted: 22:13 - 25 Jun 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

tokarev wrote:
I think that tiscali are going to be offering 8MB unlimited for £17.99 per month soon (i think it said August or September).

Yeah, I think I got an email saying August. But my 12 month minimum contract is up in September and there's no chance I'll be staying with them any longer than that. Seeing as my 2Mb service is total crap except between maybe 1am and noon, I can only imagine how hilarious it'll be once they start dishing out 8Mb connections...
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PostPosted: 23:37 - 25 Jun 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

Cheers Thumbs Up , il do that upgrade.

impaler - do you really get bad problems with it? Iv never had any problems and my downloads speeds are basically the same when ever im connected.
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PostPosted: 23:40 - 25 Jun 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

Just gone to upgrade and it says im still on 512k and paying 17.99 Shocked , glad i spotted this thread
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PostPosted: 10:55 - 26 Jun 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

MRX Steve wrote:
impaler - do you really get bad problems with it? Iv never had any problems and my downloads speeds are basically the same when ever im connected.


I use Usenet to do my downloads using a program called Ninan - in a morning I can get 200-220kb/s, which is what I would expect from my 2Mb connection. It starts to drop around noon and by maybe 3pm I can only get 20kb/s. It generally stops completely by 4pm, and will not work again until very late in the evening. That's not what I'm paying for Confused
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PostPosted: 12:49 - 26 Jun 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

It depends where your downloading from as well. On Rapidshare, I get an average download rate of 230kb/s on a 1MB connection, and from torrents it's anywhere between 10 and 100kb/s - generally around 40kb/s.

If I can double those speeds for free, I'll be a happy bunny. Smile
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PostPosted: 12:53 - 26 Jun 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm talking about downloading from Giganews... I very much doubt they are the bottleneck Wink
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PostPosted: 15:02 - 26 Jun 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: 22:44 - 26 Jun 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

McGee wrote:
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Me too 8mb thats quite slow!!!

Plus hardly anyone gets the 8mb, unless they're next to the exchange.

I've actualy got used to 10mb download speeds and I want more.
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