I have just had a phone call from talk talk offering me free broadband for life, all i have to do is pay £11.99 a month line rental to them instead of
bt. i already pay £8.99 for all calls with them, so it sounds a good deal. anyone know if it is any good ???
Rick
From what i have heard its crap...
Get what you pay for (or dont as the case may be!) The exception being AOL which is expensive and crap.
David
[Edited on 2/5/07 by flak monkey]
Hi mate,
I have had this package since last September and it's been great.
The only calls you pay for are to mobiles otherwise it's £20 all in,
Chris.
They are ok until things go wrong.
After 3 months of calls to India in 50min+ sessions, I finally gave up and returned to BT.
Might be OK if you can actually get it installed. My parents have had TalkTalk phone for quite a while, signed up for broadband in January and are still waiting....
As nitramm said.
I've been on about a year now service once connected but support is poor.
saying that apart from the initial 3 months wait for the broadband to be connected and a recent upgrade causing the connecting to drop to 17k for
about a week, its generally been trouble free and saved me loads of money overall.
I've had it for a couple of years now (line rental too) and I can honestly say it has been no trouble - and saves lots of dosh too
cheap but sh1t.
on changeover they disconnected my landline for two weeks and broadband line for a month.
once they had sorted it i have 2 MB for about 3 months.
the service has detiorated for the last two months ranging from no broadband service to a maximum 512K for about 1 hour per day.
you email and call the technical lines and they charge you per minute and ask numpty questions like is the compter turned on? etc over and over
again.
the only plus side is the free international calls i make to the states.
choose wisely
been on talktalk for a year no problems to date, good value for money
all broadband is nice whilst it works, i left ntl after a few outages and poor service. Now have BT, its not gone wrong yet so i dont know if support is good.
I think all ISP's will have good and bad points and reports.
Not sure if it really matters any more, they're all comparable at the end of the day.
It's like deciding which 7 to build!
Go with the cheapest.
Pat...
As others have said, good when it works.
Our BB and phone go down every couple of weeks for an hour or so.
Stu
Talk-Talk have a pretty poor reputation for sorting problems out.
If you want very low cost phone calls you just use a Skype phone ,
For your broadband connection look at Be and Plusnet both of whom do very attractive phone packages.
In addition Be are ahead of the game with ADSL2 which is twice as fast over the same line as ADSL.
[Edited on 3/5/07 by britishtrident]
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From what i have heard its crap...
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Originally posted by Avoneer
Not sure if it really matters any more, they're all comparable at the end of the day.
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Originally posted by ChrisGamlin
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Originally posted by Avoneer
Not sure if it really matters any more, they're all comparable at the end of the day.
Not sure about that Pat, Id say probably overall reliability is similar across most broadband packages (because it generally piggy backs off the same BT infrastructure), but when things do go wrong there's a vast difference in the quality of service.
Soz I was being a bit simplistic there Steve, yep there are companies like Bulldog who have their own kit via LLU, but having recently changed ISPs
and had a look at all the offerings, I'd estimate that maybe 75% of ADSL is still supplied through BT exchanges
cheers
Chris
[Edited on 5/5/07 by ChrisGamlin]