Tiscali (Lineone) Reviews

I live 1.8km from my exchange. I can get up to 2Mbps, but the service is appauling, and I will be changing ISP shortly. My download speed now no longer exceeds 5kbps (slower than my modem.) As soon as Tiscali realise you're actually using the bandwidth of their "un_LIMITED_" service, that's when the rude letters ...  Read the complete review

Just moved back to UK used to have Virgin 24/7 before, decided that I would be a born again Virgin. Tried and tried, no luck made about 10 calls to various numbers without success.Gave up my Virginal desires. Heard quite a lot about Tiscali, liked the idea of £14.99 per month and free modem and no connection fee etc. Phoned Tiscali and within ...  Read the complete review

As i have had a serious problems with my last isp AOL,whom i was with for so long i had no end of problems with it was time for a change........ After shopping around i discovered Tiscali.... The packages are: Broadband Package which is £14.99-£17.99(depending on 1mb and 2mb) a month which includes: Free ...  Read the complete review

After frequent issues with BT Openworld broadband, I decided to change over to Tiscali. Initially I started with the 2MB limited package which was very fast but I noticed I was getting close to the limit every month (Mainly due to discovering Google Earth and usenet!) so I changed over to 1MB unlimited. The speed difference wasn't ...  Read the complete review

I have toyed with the idea of getting broadband for a long time now, but have always been either confused as to which company I should go with, or put off by the prices. I have been with Freeserve on their Anytime package for at least two years now, and overall have been completely happy with the service they provide. I was swayed to go ...  Read the complete review

Having moved house it was time to get broadband installed. We were unable to get NTL (our previous supplier) because they are not present in the new estate. Although their customer services is a bit poor we never had a problem with the service NTL provided and would have gone with them again if we could have. We have a network of 3 computers, ...  Read the complete review

Computers are becoming more advanced and people have to keep up to speed with these things. Different parts of the computer are becoming more amazing for example the games on computers are becoming me detailed and graphics improved. But on the compute now is a thing called the internet. Like most things on the computer this too is becoming more ...  Read the complete review

I've been a user of Tiscali Broadband for about four months, and I signed up for the unlimited 512kb package. The packages available have now changed and they all have still have a great price ranging from 15.99 to 24.99 a month, but all packages now include a month download limit. I needed a package that included unlimited downloads so I chose ...  Read the complete review

Having used BT as our ISP for a fair while, I was angry by the way in which they had changed things over time. The crunch came when they reduced their so called ? anytime package to 150 hours per month. I knew I had to do something. I had been toying with the idea of Broadband for months, but was always put off for various reasons the main being: ...  Read the complete review

UPDATE - JULY 2004 I have now cancelled Tiscali - after a second bout of the same trouble below. Even this was painful. They cancelled the account without so much as a letter of confirmation - leaving me without a service. I have joined f2s - expect a review on them soon... Alternate title - Tiscali Internet ? costs more ...  Read the complete review

I can thorougly reccomend this ... if you like to spend 15 minutes on hold when trying to speak to customer service lines and further enjoy speaking to folks who can barely understand English, who you also can barely understand and who (though unfailingly polite) cannot resolve your problem without taking you through a set (in stone) process - no ...  Read the complete review

Now Smart Talk - Advantages: easy to use, simple to setup, CHEAPER than BT ! - Disadvantages: none

Since signing on with tiscali 2 months ago they have been an absolute nightmare.The catalogue of (avoidable) disasters goes as follows; 1:Equipment came 13 days into 14 day "cooling off" period 2:Equipment scratched etc (clearly not new) 3:Had to re-configure whole p.c to get ANY benefit 4:Phoned helpline for ...  Read the complete review

I have been an Internet user now for the past 6 years or so now and have always used a dial up connection of some kind. Over the past 5 years I have been with NTL's free service, which then changed to a chargeable service of £10 per month. Then I moved house and had it disconnected. I?m now in my new house, and have got my nice PC ...  Read the complete review

I have been accessing the Internet through Tiscali for 2 years now using their 56kbps Anytime package, which gave me unlimited, access to the Internet for just £14.99. Having moved out of my parents? house (at last) I decided to branch out and upgrade my subscription to broadband. This was mainly motivated by a desire to not lose half of my life ...  Read the complete review

Researching the best deals on the web with regards our telecommunications requirements recently, I came across Tiscali. I hadn't really heard much about them, but I remember receiving a disk with our new computer, a priviledge usually reserved for the likes of AOL! Anyway, I thought I'd share what I'd found: ABOUT TISCALI ...  Read the complete review

Avoid any dealings with Tiscali as I have had two major instances of them acting in a dishonest manner, including one which amounts to theft. Firstly I subscribed to a telephone service provided by Screaming Net, who were taken over by World Online and subsequently by Tiscali. Shortly after taking over the service Tiscali closed it down ...  Read the complete review

Tiscali are a very good company. Started out long itme ago. When the service used to be called Locatel. I used to have cheap internet access and had cheap phone line rental. The internet serive was only after 6pm as I didn't need it really before that time. Then, after a while, another compnany came along and I think bought Locatel and called ...  Read the complete review

Why would you want to get Broadband? ------------------------------------------------ Its ten times or five times faster than a normal 56kbps connection. Depending on which package you choose of course. So you will be able to download songs, films etc much faster. It also lets calls to be made and receive on your on your house phone. So no ...  Read the complete review

Cheap but poor service - Advantages: Cheap compared to other providers, Easy to use, Reasonable connections - Disadvantages: Frequent billing problems, Terrible customer service