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“Don't waste your time, just leave!”
Written on: 24/04/2013
I was a Tiscali BB customer for 7 years. We reported poor or unreliable connection over much of that time and spent countless hours on the phone to non-uk tech support. While they had plenty of scripted chat, they never solved the problem. In frustration, we moved to BT. On the day of transfer, connection speed DOUBLED, before installing the BT hub. What annoys me is that Tiscali insisted our speed could be no faster, whoever the ISP. What a pack of lies. Don't make my mistake, if your speed... (read more)
★☆☆☆☆
“old tiscali was good”
Written on: 20/06/2012
Ever since Talktalk bought Tiscali service and reliability has gone downhill. Rather than get on top of the situation it seems a process of steady decay with nobody in Talktalk notices or are powerless to rectify (read more)
★☆☆☆☆
“Why can't we have any bandwidth?”
Written on: 13/06/2012
Well it's no Plus.Net but it'll do! Why can't we have a jason manford look a like? (read more)
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“JUST HORRIBLE!”
Written on: 18/12/2011 by MeLoNhEadSeb
I just wrote a REALLY LONG review but the stupid wireless went off and, again, messed everything up. Thanks a lot Talktalk, you SUCK. (read more)
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“Is anyone working for Talktalk”
Written on: 05/12/2011
Can any one tell me when you can access the emails - Hello Talk talk is anyone there (read more)
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“Rubbish”
Written on: 27/09/2011 by terrence.mortimer
Sine tiscali were taken over by Talk talk the service has been ddreadful. It is slow. The messages sent cannot be found and after accessing an inbox mail one goes back to the inbox and there is a blank page. I have had a simialr problem with contacting technical support. Yes they are polite but their accent is difficult to understand and they talk so quickly. Additioonally I am hard of hearing and ask them to speak up but with little response. I have treid writing to Talk Talk but, as with... (read more)
Guest's Response to terrence.mortimer's Review
Written on: 03/10/2011
I agree when it was tiscali i had verry little problems since talk talk sent me a new router i have had problems thay have told me its my phones and it could be my computer but not at all to do with them
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“Continually cutting off ”
Written on: 05/09/2011
I am using a wireless connection, yet when I am in the middle of writing a long email, I find that it has disconnected. It gives you the offer of saving the message to drafts before re-signing on. That, of course must be their idea of a joke! Its may or more usually may not be there. If it is, there is only half of it. You try ringing the Customer Service - India of course, where the people are charming and polite, but obviously have no idea how to solve the problem, so are reading from the... (read more)
★★★★☆
“Was with Tiscali for many years and have noticed no...”
Written on: 04/05/2011
Was with Tiscali for many years and have noticed no difference in the service other than a sudden increase of 30% in the cost. However have no complaints about the service, spedds are generally in the 3 to 4mb range which is not bad considering my distance from the exchange. (read more)
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“Been with tiscali then talktalk for 3yrs, since...”
Written on: 08/04/2011
Been with tiscali then talktalk for 3yrs, since talktalk took over rubbish!tried to go wireless on 2 laptops, nightmare. Spoke to people in India they were polite and helpful,but couldnt connect either to wireless i have a new moden one week old, they say it is a faulty modem and talktalk are trying to tell me i have to pay £50 for another one. i would not recommend talktalk to my worst enemy they are useless. They have been sending me a bill for £0.00 for a new number on a new line they... (read more)
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“I have been with Tiscali for 5 years for calls. Talk...”
Written on: 28/03/2011
I have been with Tiscali for 5 years for calls. Talk Tlak snet me a vague letter date March 2011 preching about an improved billing system. For them maybe. On the reverse is a single entry that says "my package" has been moved to UK Evening and Weekend. It was suppised to start on 15th March but they have backdated the call charges to 1 Feb. The call charges went up by 7-8x from about £15 per month to over £100.
These people are serial incompetents, and operate with some very dubious...
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“Had Tiscali Max for many years the service was fine,...”
Written on: 25/03/2011
Had Tiscali Max for many years the service was fine, not one issue until talktalk took over, download speed went form 7M to 0.5M over night, customer service were completely useless, tech support even more so
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★☆☆☆☆
“Had similar experience as other here, called and kept...”
Written on: 22/03/2011
Had similar experience as other here, called and kept on phone for 1 hour 45 mins and passed to at least 6 departments all in India, with no result at the end. We requested a MAC code and did not recieve it, 2 weeks later the service stopped and they will not even speak to me as we buy through a reseller. 3 and a half weks have now passed and even BT cannot help! so I guess I,ll never be able to have B/band again and will probably have to change phone lines, which will result in further cost... (read more)
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“Absolutely ATROCIOUS. Would NOT recommend to ANYONE....”
Written on: 12/03/2011
Absolutely ATROCIOUS. Would NOT recommend to ANYONE. Traffic shaping, fair-use policies, the works. The "peak times" are awful aswell. 6pm-11pm? NO. More like 8am to 2am the next day! Switch as fast as possible if you are with them and if not, thank god! Steer well clear of this company! (read more)
★☆☆☆☆
“I have been without broadband since 30 dec 2010 and...”
Written on: 04/03/2011
I have been without broadband since 30 dec 2010 and it's now MARCH 4th!! I only stayed because I need the email address.. talk talk took them over.. they have consistantly lied to me. I will be taking legal action to claim back my "fee" they have charged me for NO service. THEY are in breach of contract big time.. ring up their tech staff "yes sir it will be on tomorrow" .. a bunch of liars.. I am not at the connection all the time, otherwise I'd have dumped them. since talk talk took them... (read more)
★☆☆☆☆
“Been with Tiscali for years. Hardly any problems worth...”
Written on: 22/02/2011
Been with Tiscali for years. Hardly any problems worth a mention.
Since the Talk Talk take over download speed are about 25% of what they were previously.
Customers service and technical support is a joke.
I would never think of using any product associated with these clowns nor recommend them to even my worst enemy.
Cannot get rid of them quick enough.
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★☆☆☆☆
“We have been with Tiscali for several years and have...”
Written on: 08/02/2011
We have been with Tiscali for several years and have never had cause to complain. Unfortunately we are now leaving after having awful problems with them, I believe this is to do with Talk Talk taking over!Had our internet cut last Thursday and believing we had a problem contacted the technical support who talkem me through fixing it for 1 and a half hours!! The next day the engineer failed to call so called them to be told that the internet had been cut because our card had expired.This had... (read more)
★☆☆☆☆
“Avoid like the plague. Tiscali, Freedom 2 surf or Talk...”
Written on: 06/02/2011
Avoid like the plague. Tiscali, Freedom 2 surf or Talk Talk whatever they mascaraed has, keep well well away - you have been warned.
Speeds were 3mb average - welcome Talk Talk and speeds now 0.5 to 0.9 at best. What a pile of rubbish.
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“I have now been without my phone for 5 days. I have...”
Written on: 27/01/2011 by cterry60 (1 review written)
I have now been without my phone for 5 days. I have send emails to the so called "customer service" 6 of, to the so called Technically problems 1 of and finally two to the CEO MR GREEN. What a waist of time. I have had only one reply telling me the usual like checking the phone etc , which I had done before or I wouldnt be such a moron and contact them if my phone wasnt working. I have asked several times when my contract is due to end and not only cant I find this information on my account... (read more)
★☆☆☆☆
“Customer since 2005. TalkTalk take over and it is now...”
Written on: 19/01/2011
Customer since 2005. TalkTalk take over and it is now the No. 1 service to AVOID. Cut off from internet for 10 days now as my account is supposed to be "migrated" to a TalkTalk service .... no warning that I was going to be cut off, no indication from the call centre staff when I will be reconnected, if you really want to feel unwanted sign up today ...NOT.
Do yourself a favour, steer well clear from TalkTalk if you want a broadband service.
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★☆☆☆☆
“Switched over to Tiscali because I thought Orange were...”
Written on: 07/01/2011
Switched over to Tiscali because I thought Orange were a little bit rubbish.
Boy was I wrong. Orange was a shiny golden god of a service compared to the junk I get from Tiscali.
8mb connection is what I pay for, and I am VERY lucky if it runs at 1.2mb. Ever. The PING is terrible, they throttle everything that isn't standard webpage browsing, you call services and talk to the cast of Bollywood. Utterly deplorable
If the service from Orange was a broken leg, Tiscali's equivalent would be...
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★★☆☆☆
“I had been with Tiscali for over 6 years, no problems...”
Written on: 05/01/2011
I had been with Tiscali for over 6 years, no problems hence I kept renewing my contract. Talk Talk get involved and now I am leaving them. My bill was 2 weeks overdue (simply due to Christmas costs) and they barred my home phone and cut off the internet. No reminder letter/e-mail, no phone call to remind me, straight to cutting me off. When I tried to use my home phone I was put through to their payment line but when I tried to speak to someone I was cut off repeatedly. Couldn't pay thro... (read more)
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“Been with Tiscali for years and never had a problem. ...”
Written on: 31/12/2010
Been with Tiscali for years and never had a problem. In the last month we have had regular loss of service during Monday - Friday (daytime). We have made no progress with customer service who consistently state the problem is within our house - I know it is not. After weeks of frustrated calls we have decided to move and wow Tiscali/ Talk Talk really surpassed themselves. My first call with customer services to retrieve my MAC details led me to hang up in anger at their constant attempts... (read more)
Markallatt's Comment
Written on: 12/01/2011
I found this review very helpful because... I ahve the same issues, evey time I call them, they spend ages asking my name, confirming eveything 3 times and still dont come up with an answer. Rubbish Tiscali, I will also leave them as they really dont know how to look after customers. I ahve been with them for 12 years, but no more
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★☆☆☆☆
“Peak time connections are woeful, they don't even seem...”
Written on: 31/12/2010
Peak time connections are woeful, they don't even seem to care or try to improve speeds. Taking this connection will ruin your life. This is the 2011 and the internet is as slow as it was in the mid 90s. Get your act straight! (read more)
★☆☆☆☆
“Have to agree with many of the points already made. I...”
Written on: 15/12/2010 by Peter Steward (1 review written)
Have to agree with many of the points already made. I have been having consistent problems with the Tiscali Broadband which seems just to drop out and can take hours or even days to re-connect. A friend said the same thing. I am trying to run a Sonos music system through my Ipad which means that when Tiscali is down I cannot surf the net, pick up e-mails or play music. Time to change to another provider. (read more)
★☆☆☆☆
“I joined Tiscali some years ago - to be fair they were...”
Written on: 14/12/2010
I joined Tiscali some years ago - to be fair they were good and never really experienced any issues. Then Pipex took over and the billing went a bit haywire - but nothing can prepare you for dealing with Talk Talk. I say dealing with but you cannot actually deal with them as they never respond or get back to you.
I have been unable to access my account for nearly six weeks now and some of my email addresses have simply stopped working. I have use gmail fo ages to collect all my email but on...
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★★☆☆☆
“Watch out for those 0871 numbers!”
Written on: 13/12/2010
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★★☆☆☆
“Originally I was with Toucan who good. They were taken...”
Written on: 04/12/2010
Originally I was with Toucan who good. They were taken over by Pipex who were just okay. Little did I know that they were soon to be taken over by Talk Talk who are totlaly rubbish: first I noticed line speeds were dropping and that I couldnt get online at peak times of day. Then I noticed they were incorrectly billing my bank account. My emails and letters have gone unanswered for a month despite them owing me money.
They cant be trusted. Avoid them.
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★☆☆☆☆
“ tiscali was a good place to be!!! but oh dear...”
Written on: 28/11/2010
tiscali was a good place to be!!! but oh dear renewed with taktalk like all the others i have had nothing but headaches, everthing that can go wrong does,so, net closes without warning or you are unable to open the internet to get on line and you think that its your fault ??? i must have clicked a wrong key, so you try to start again with no luck. got my computor engineer in he did loads of checks took a load of rubbish away and then checked broadband speed 0.23 should be getting up... (read more)
★☆☆☆☆
“I previously had broadband from Tiscali and phone from...”
Written on: 24/11/2010
I previously had broadband from Tiscali and phone from BT. I changed to a Talk Talk package and, on the switchover day, my line was disconnected. Despite 15 calls and several emails to Talk Talk, I could not get reconnected and, after a week gave up and went back to BT. Talk Talk sent me several bills for service I had never received and completely ignored all of the letters I sent them. Their customer service is less than pathetic and will tell you anything, but do nothing to assist... (read more)
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“To be fair to Tiscali I have been with them since...”
Written on: 22/11/2010
To be fair to Tiscali I have been with them since around June 2008 and never had one problem. The speed was brilliant and I never once got less than 6500kbps on my 8meg package. I had no problems what so ever using torrents or watching HD content on youtube etc and always got excellent download speeds downloading things from Steam.
In the last month since the migration to Talk Talk things have got progressively worse, speeds dropped to 4500kbps then down to 2500kpbs and now they are at...
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★☆☆☆☆
“Tiscali As with many companies that have off shore...”
Written on: 22/11/2010 by Bridgeways (1 review written)
Tiscali As with many companies that have off shore call centres they suffer from lack of information between themselves. I have been unlucky enough to be without incoming email or webmail or even the ability to access my account on line since the 3rd of November 2010. I have spoken to their customer services and so called tech guys everyday since, with promises of the service being fixed within 24/48 hours or indeed a promised callback the next day. Well guess what neither has happened. ... (read more)
★☆☆☆☆
“Tiscali / talk talk has the worst customer service I...”
Written on: 17/11/2010
Tiscali / talk talk has the worst customer service I have ever experienced. I would never willingly use either company to provide phone or broadband. Pay a bit more and deal with a less shambolic company! (read more)
★☆☆☆☆
“I would not recommend tiscali to my worst enemy it is...”
Written on: 14/11/2010
I would not recommend tiscali to my worst enemy it is a load of rubbish . The speed is really slow and i keep losing Internet connection . Rung customers service up a number of times and we get no where and it cost me Nealy £8.00 in telephone calls to them. I have been with tiscali for Nealy 6 years never had problems with them until talk talk took over . I have now cancelled my contract with them and gone else where just hope my new provider is better and that i dont have any billing... (read more)
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“We first got Pipex broadband - fantastic for its time....”
Written on: 12/11/2010
We first got Pipex broadband - fantastic for its time. It was a great deal, but when Pipex was taken over by Tiscali our speed began to falter. THEN Tiscali was taken over by the notorious TalkTalk, renowned for poor customer service and general poor quality.
Needless to say, our connection is now awful. I actually have to pause a one minute youtube video and come back to see if it has loaded a few minutes later. Usually it hasn't.
Once I actually had to wait TWO DAYS to download a demo of a...
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“I hate talktalk with a passion! I was originally with...”
Written on: 01/11/2010
I hate talktalk with a passion! I was originally with AOL, and then talktalk took over and gave appalling service. so decided to move to Tiscali, then a few months later, just my luck, talktalk took over tiscali too! Since then my internet has been very slow and in some days would not even connect at all, but I persevered because their customer service was just ridiculous and very unhelpful, just going round in circle! Recently my TV and internet stopped working, when i rung talktalk,... (read more)
Scheherazada 's Comment
Written on: 18/11/2010
I found this review very helpful because... it confirmed my own poor connections through tiscali/talk talk
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★☆☆☆☆
“TALK TALK PHONE AND BROADBAND ”
Written on: 31/10/2010 by TOMRCA (5 reviews written)
TALK TALK PHONE AND BROADBAND
as captive customer of talk talk from tiscali this is the second review in a few days. neverthelss i feel that this should be brought to light to talk talk customer and customers to be. don't be fooled by the salesman, that's his job. tiscali wasn't that good but the tricks of talk talk far superseed those of tiscali.
my internet had been dropping many times in a day, every day for some time. at first i though that it may be the work on local cabinets to...
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★☆☆☆☆
“re: tiscali now talk ”
Written on: 28/10/2010 by TOMRCA (5 reviews written)
re: tiscali now talk
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i too joined tiscali but only to discover that they had sold the BB off to talk talk acouple of months later. Oh my word what a disaster it has turned out to be. where shall i start, staff, many of them do not speak clear english and in addition have a problem understanding my local accent even though i try to speak slower and plainer english. one operator disconnected the call because of it.
BB: i pay for 8mgb...
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★☆☆☆☆
“talk talk is rubbish. customer service is based in...”
Written on: 27/10/2010
talk talk is rubbish. customer service is based in india phone line is cracckley internet drops out every 1min and internet runs at 0.10mb/s and im paying for an 24mb service. DO NOT JOIN EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE CHEAPER. there s*it to put into one word. they deserve none of the stars above but i have to put something. (read more)
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“I rue the day I agreed to a new contract with TalkTalk...”
Written on: 27/10/2010
I rue the day I agreed to a new contract with TalkTalk after they took over Tiscali. The "service" frequently slows to a snails pace and the email system is abysmal. They keep telling us that the email problem is fixed when it clearly is not. I've given a one star rating but that is far too high. (read more)
★☆☆☆☆
“Since take over by Talk Talk, they have cocked up our...”
Written on: 27/10/2010
Since take over by Talk Talk, they have cocked up our direct debit - their bank is refusing to accept payment because they have got their account name so it doesn't match their account number (both provided by them). They also can't take online payment because "the status of your bill cannot be verified" So as all this is somehow our fault they propose to cut us off!!!!! Never, ever, use these cowboys! Also, I wish I could give these idiots zero stars in some of your categories - one star is... (read more)
★☆☆☆☆
“Since Talk Talk has taken over Tiscali. I have had to...”
Written on: 23/10/2010 by ELLIE 192 (1 review written)
Since Talk Talk has taken over Tiscali. I have had to many problems to mention. When will my email be up and running? Will definitely cancel this dreadful service as soon as possible. DO NOT USE TALK TALK (read more)
★☆☆☆☆
“I am absolutely outraged by the derision with which...”
Written on: 23/10/2010 by ant10001 (1 review written)
I am absolutely outraged by the derision with which this company treat their customers. A payment made by card over the phone is apparently not received (though proof of payment has been sent twice to various (read more)
★☆☆☆☆
“If I could give no stars I would. ”
Written on: 18/10/2010
If I could give no stars I would.
No emails for the last 10 days and no warning that this was going to happen.
Fobbed off by customer services who promised everything would be sorted 5 days ago.
All this after having connection problems and limited recieved emails several times this year alone.
Talk talk you are a disgrace.
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★☆☆☆☆
“On 1st Oct. Talktalk cut off my Tiscali Broadband. I...”
Written on: 15/10/2010 by 134jhg
On 1st Oct. Talktalk cut off my Tiscali Broadband. I spent 2 hrs on phone on 4th Oct. another 2 hrs on 5th Oct. being passed to 14 different numbers. I wrote a letter of complaint on 7th Oct, and on 13th I received a phone call from someone on 0203 302 8400 to say that I would be reconnected by midnight on 14th Oct. This morning (15)I was not connected, so I phoned the above number and just got music and nobody speaking. I then phoned customer services on 0870 444 1820 and someone in... (read more)
★☆☆☆☆
“Glad I am not the only one experiencing problems since...”
Written on: 15/10/2010
Glad I am not the only one experiencing problems since the migration of tiscali e-mail to talktalk. I have similar problems with trying to access my e-mails. On one occasion it told me that I was banned from receiving any more e-mails until I emptied my mail box, then a few minutes later the next time I logged in it said I was only using 3% of my capability. Then it restored over 150 e-mails that I deleted over a week ago and later on deleted them again. It also tends to log you off whilst... (read more)
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“i have had no consistant email service for 4 days . ”
Written on: 14/10/2010
i have had no consistant email service for 4 days .
Just try and speak with someone rthe only time I got through was to a pakistani who I could hardly understand .
Dreadful service BUYER BEWARE can anyone reccomend a half decent service provider, PLEASE
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★☆☆☆☆
“Since Talk Talk took over the usually good service...”
Written on: 12/10/2010
Since Talk Talk took over the usually good service that Tiscali provided,the new Service has become appalling.Their new presentation looks as though it was produced by children,compared with the rest on the market.Their Email now is dreadful-difficult to accesss,difficult to even use as it takes many seconds to even delete items.It has taken me 4 times today to even access my Emails.I get a blank page or 3 or 4 green boxes and a "Loading" symbol,which then looks the screen for minutes and I... (read more)
Mynirvana's Comment
Written on: 14/10/2010
I agree with all content of this review.
<br/>Yet again jobsworths attempting to justify their feeble existence have fannied with something that wasn't great in the first place, and made it even worse still.... well done Talk talk.
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Workflow's Comment
Written on: 19/10/2010
I agree the service is appalling. I have not had emails for some 7 days. Tiscali now say that it will be at least the 25th Oct (they did confirm that it would be in 2010!) before service is back. I note that on one of the Technical sites that the reason for the prolem is that Tiscali failed to renew a domain name and therefore lost their ability to distribute emails. Someone else now owns that name. Hence the delay in getting problem resolved. Incompetent or what!?
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★☆☆☆☆
“i am Tiscali customer before. There customer service...”
Written on: 05/10/2010
i am Tiscali customer before. There customer service is so poor and irresponsible. there is no coordination in between departments. sometimes not willing to hear us. there is no toll free number to call them also. they took14 days to find out what was the technical error in there service and not ready to give a compansation also. dont trust the complaint agencies like ofcom. they are mutaly support. thay are least botherd about custmer griveness. thx. (read more)
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Guest's Comment
Written on: 29/06/2012
I have now spent the last three consecutive days trying to get a problem sorted out with my broadband connection. Initially told it was a router problem and that they could replace my router with a free talk talk router. I said that would be fine. Then they stated that to get a free router I would have to sign up for a further 18 months contract with them..... I refused saying that I had been a customer of theirs for over 5 years. I was then told that they would need to do a line check and needed to end the call and that they would call me back the next day. They did so and I was informed that the line had been checked and reinstated and that I would not have any further problems. (After 25mins of conversation). Strangely enough, the same problem occurred the next day. Rang TT and they went through the same checks again. After 20 minutes the call got cut off so matter was not resolved. Called back again and further checks and another 20 minutes later was informed that it was a router problem. They could send me a free router, but that I would have to sign a further 18 month contract... I was of course furious because of that lack of customer support and the fact that I was paying for a service that was not working. I asked for a MAC code to end the contract. Informed that they would put me thorough to their 'Loyalty Dept'.... I then asked them to get the Loyalty Dept to contact me and they said it could not be done. After a further 2 minutes of talking they said that someone from the Loyalty Dept would contact me. I will be looking for an alternative Service Provider.