In my experience anyway, 50% of the time, it was at dial-up speeds. 10% of the time it didn't work at all. The rest, it worked ok, kinda.

I know this article is about their tv thingy, but just felt like I had to add that.

yep, although I just rang to get my MAC code and they (a) lowered my rental to £15, and (b) upgraded me to 8Mb/s true unlimited* while (c) not insisting on restarting a contract. Oh, and they gave me a tenner to boot.

Still a pants connection, will see if changing DNS improves things

*: The nice fella assured me that they only began monitoring on this tariff if I did 10GB/day Am waiting to see what the new Ts&Cs say

If Tiscalli TV is ready for expansion, why are so many folks on digitalspy winging that video quality has dropped?

After gradually rebranding the service bit by bit, us ex-Homechoice customers are finally being migrated over to true Tiscali TV in the New Year. I have to confess I'm a little bit worried. The broadband contention ratio will increase from 20:1 to 50:1, which is going to slow up Internet speeds, and as one poster has already stated some are saying the picture quality from the Homechoice ATM-based network was better.

Time will tell.

.. I left after 3 years as the service was getting worse and worse

For some reason there is a lot of anti Tiscali-TV propaganda going about.

If you you look at digitalspy there are one or two people with problems, but line faults occur on all ISP's

I've been a Homechoice customer for years and the service is great. They are slow to bring out upgrades but when they do they work. BT Vision is a nightmare in comparison, it often simply doesn't work. They have launched a PVR service (to complement the Replay TV service) very discreetly and it looks great. Download speed and pings (8ms to BBC) are good, no caps or service limits and unlimited music videos (not PPV). Its also cheaper than VM and has Sky. Tiscali don't seem to advertise the service, they don't pre-announce anything either which is dull but at least they can't be accused of failing to deliver promises.

Run, don't walk away from Tiscali. I have recently been migrated from Pipex to Tiscali, on the 8 Mbyte super-premium plan...and service has become abysimal. Want to watch a YouTube video? Er, get ready for pauses, glitches, and just unmade connections.

If I try to download ANYTHING, I can actually watch the sawtooth wave forms of the traffic shaping cutting in, routinely. On an 8Mb "unlimited" connection that I rarely download anything that large on.

Pipex was SOOO much better, I miss them. I may have to try BT soon enough...

Robert

Upgraded broadband package started 4th oct tiscali disconnected broadband Nov 2nd no notification no reason why after 4 hrs on phone no wiser tried on the Monday after another 4hrs was told Id been disconnected in error by Tiscali & my broadband connection would be re connected 22 November on 21st november tiscali then cut my landline connection again no explanation Result Have had to pay B.T £125.00 to put a new land line in of course I now have a new service provider Tiscali Are still charging me even though they closed my account in error of course this only the beginning I expect It will take monthes to sort out Before anyone considers changing their landline from B.T. To Any service provider I would reccomend stay with the devil You Know