Tiscali Broadband www.tiscali.co.uk Review

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Tiscali Broadband www.tiscali.co.uk
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malc85's Review of Tiscali Broadband www.tiscali.co.uk

22nd Aug 2005

Overall Rating

4.5 stars
  • Value for money
    4.5 stars
  • Content
    4.5 stars
Good Points

Easy ordering and installation, stable connection and pc performance, competitive price


Bad Points

None


General Comments

Having decided to order Tiscali broadband and then stumbled across some unfavourable reviews I awaited delivery of my installation cd and modem with some trepidation, however my fears were unfounded.

The modem was very easy to set up (I would class myself as being of average ability technically) and the software installed without a hitch. I was literally connected to broadband in minutes and soon enjoying the superfast connection speed. I have been using Tiscali broadband for about 4 weeks so far and (touch wood) have had no problems.

A word of advice to those thinking of installing broadband on their pcs from whichever isp. Make your pc is as clean as a whistle before you install the software ie make sure you are bang up to date with all the Microsoft windows updates (including service pack 2 if you are using xp) and also that you have no active spyware and that you are clean of viruses.

Also make sure that you connect up the modem exactly as it says in the instructions and also in the order that it states. If you try to connect things up in the wrong order it won't work properly.

I suspect that many people have problems with broadband because their pcs are not working properly to begin with and they don't follow the instructions properly.

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Members' Comments onmalc85's Review

  • wdf Rank: Staff Sergeant on 16th Sep 2005

    I disagree that you blame the problems on peoples PC's. I am a software engineer, and in the end, found the only solution was to cancel Tiscali and go with a decent ISP. Since then I have had no problems.

  • realfoe on 6th Nov 2006

    I sorted my mates PC and broadband out with reg tweaks that I use on my own PC that has one meg Onetel... I also used Spybot search and destroy, ad-aware, and I have a virus killer. The XP is a very new install, so there is really no excuse for his broadband to be slow all day long. Now his connection is meant to be 2Mb, but he can't watch stuff from YouTube, whereas I can.