TalkTalk

suhailc · 3rd May 2006

Hi all,

I just signed up for the TalkTalk International plan which provides free broadband for life for only £20.99/month and that includes the line rental! I'm feeling pretty chuffed

Anyone else signed up for it yet? Anyone actually using it yet or is not available yet? As I've been promised connection in 3 weeks from now.

Regards,
Suhail.

OliverMargetts · 4th May 2006

Eek.

Good luck is all I'll say.

They're currently rated worse than Tiscali on the ADSLguide comparison tool, and I suspect that'll drop even further - they traffic shape, and seem to have totally useless support.

With anything, you get what you pay for. In this case, you're paying nothing...

suhailc · 4th May 2006

Well I'm currently paying £11/month for BT line rental and £9.99 for Toucan Unlimited - that's for my phone lines.

So if TalkTalk can give me just a decent telephone service it'll be cheaper than what I'm currently paying. Then the PLUS is the broadband.

Currently I'm using Telewest and I must say their service is brilliant, and I currently pay them £35/month for broadband and another telephone line. I'll keep them alongside TalkTalk and if I find TalkTalk can actually walk the walk instead of talktalk I'll dump Telewest. Else I might just keep both for home broadband redundancy!

Regards,
Suhail.

BurtyB · 4th May 2006

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Originally Posted by suhailc

Currently I'm using Telewest and I must say their service is brilliant, and I currently pay them £35/month for broadband and another telephone line. I'll keep them alongside TalkTalk and if I find TalkTalk can actually walk the walk instead of talktalk I'll dump Telewest. Else I might just keep both for home broadband redundancy!

If you think Telewest are brilliant then you sound a perfect client for "trying" Talk Talk.

ChrisB.

suhailc · 4th May 2006

Well I've been using Telewest for over 3 years now I think, and have only had maybe 3/4 outages in all that time. Download and upload speeds are always fantastic. So unless you know something I don't, I can only say that their service has been brilliant.

Dexxa · 4th May 2006

telewest

Thier as bad as ntl and they are part of them, Well i gotta point a good thing with ntl that my broadband connection hasent been down for months now.

Carphone warehouse's talktalk seem to be too good to be true, Free broadband for life?, Now whats the catch?

8mb speeds with 40gb usage a month is not bad for a person that checks thier emails etc, But i'll probley blow that limit by playing guild wars all day, If talktalk is anything like btyahoo broadband which i was on awhile ago it was down most nights.

aXeR · 4th May 2006

Dexxa,

I think you'll strugle to use 40GB /month by playing guild wars :P

philb · 4th May 2006

Actually, if defending Telewest isnt going to get me shot down in flames, I think their service in our area is pretty damn good. We've had broadband at home from Telewest for probably 6 years if not longer and in that time we've had probably less than 6 hours outage that I've actually been affected by. Speeds are always good, latency is excellent.. it's just very very good indeed.

This of course, like many things, will vary depending on your area.

Dexxa · 4th May 2006

Yup

Quote:

Originally Posted by aXeR

Dexxa,

I think you'll strugle to use 40GB /month by playing guild wars :P

suhailc: Is £11 how much bt are charging for line rental now?

I hope when i go to bt that they dont have a stupid broadband tech guy working for them like ntl do, I had problems getting on one time and the guy kept saying rest your router and i must of told him 20 times that i dont have one! Nw for some reason ntl has put me behind a new proxie which i have to have the proxie address just to visit this site :S

OliverMargetts · 4th May 2006

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jamster · 4th May 2006

TalkTalk = a Carphone Warhouse company = enough said. If you've ever used CPW Services as your mobile provider (branded as o2 or vodaphone) you'll know what I mean! Plus iirc you're stuck on a 12 month contract so if they turn out to be rubbish you just have to wait it out.

I'd say stick with Telewest. I agree with Phil, friends and family who use them round here like them a lot - decent price with high speeds and low latency all round. Only reason I don't use them myself is that they haven't cabled my road.

wise · 5th May 2006

We use talk talk for our phone line - migrated away from BT. Service has been excellent and our bills have reduced. I use Plusnet for broadband though - of which service has been "dodgy". That could be BT's fault though .....

suhailc · 5th May 2006

Well as long as TalkTalk can provide me with a good telephone service I'm happy, and that's what I'm hoping for the most. Even if the broadband is crap I won't be paying more than what I am now if I still keep my Telewest broadband, but if it is decent than that's just excellant. I must admit that I hate ADSL filtered "broadband"connections. Makes it feel like a glorified dial up connection. Whereas with my Telewest box I have a telephone socket and a "dedicated" broadband cable!

Cranky · 8th May 2006

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Originally Posted by jamster

you'll know what I mean! Plus iirc you're stuck on a 12 month contract so if they turn out to be rubbish you just have to wait it out.

I think it's actually 18 months.

othellotech · 9th May 2006

Speaking to a friend in Chelmsford who has it, his experience of the DSL is that you get an average of 15Kb/s out of it once the kids get home from school, which implies serious limiting/overcontention. He's gone as far as to order a new BT line to get another DSL supplier, and keep the existing line for the talk-talk voice only