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10:16 am on the 30th of August, 2006Does anyone have any ideas about how good/bad talktalk are? I don’t have any broadband in the flat at the moment and won’t until they get round to setting me up with it - could be the end of October!
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August 30th, 2006 at 8:15 pm on the 30th of August, 2006
You’re paying for it?! Did your neighbour finally protect his broadband.
August 30th, 2006 at 8:19 pm on the 30th of August, 2006
Oh, and I should say that I have no past experiences with Talktalk, other than some irritating, and some other quite good adverts.
August 30th, 2006 at 8:29 pm on the 30th of August, 2006
My neighbour proctected it by moving to a different flat, which is damned inconsiderate if you ask me.
August 31st, 2006 at 5:33 pm on the 31st of August, 2006
Before you decide take a look at this weblog:
http://timesbusiness.typepad.com/money_weblog/2006/06/talktalk_servic.html
September 1st, 2006 at 12:37 pm on the 1st of September, 2006
I’m not with Talk Talk. Generally I like my phone ste up to be straight forward, and don’t trust seemingly cheap deals. I’m with AOL. I don’t like them (my firewall disagrees with them, I don’t like their browser, yet I can’t use another browser with a firewall as I have to switch it off. So I’m using a browser with no firewall, as, like I say, theirs is ‘orrible. And they are forever trying to sell me things, or try to get applications loaded onto my pc. But they work, so I’ve never been bothered switching. I may when we move house though. Any recommendations, anyone?
While we are on the subject, I’ve also not renewed my anti-virus with McAfee this year, for a variety of reasons (I’ve never managed to get on thing to work, their firewall disagrees with AOL, and I’m still getting a pop-up reminder to renew version 5 when I’m on version 7. So I’m going to delete every refernce to McAfee I can find, and get something new. Again, any recommendations?
September 1st, 2006 at 1:06 pm on the 1st of September, 2006
I knew thay had problems when they started the deal, but I’m generally optimistic that it won’t all be misery - the only people who put things on the internet tend to be the ones who’ve had very bad experiences or very good experiences, nobody bothers to say they have had reasonable, or indifferent experiences.
As for AOL I wouldn’t touch them with a barge pole - when Mum and Dad had it at home I couldn’t put up with that dippy woman welcoming you every time you connect, and detested using their browser. Having said that though, the connection was always reliable.
September 1st, 2006 at 8:22 pm on the 1st of September, 2006
I’m with you - down with AOL and their predatory programming. I like autonomy over my computers, complete control.
I’m with Tiscali, and I must say they’ve been good. Overall, I don’t think they work out at any cheaper than the free-broadband-but-pay-for-your-phone deals, they do nothing special but I have had no problems.
Thus we can cast aside Stuart’s assertion that people don’t write about reasonable experiences.
September 7th, 2006 at 3:43 pm on the 7th of September, 2006
My principle reason for going with AOL was they gave me a free modem and things to stick in the phone sockets that you need when you have broadband. Now I’m not technical. If I switch to another provider, will I need a new modem?
September 8th, 2006 at 1:55 pm on the 8th of September, 2006
You probably won’t need a new one, but it is possible for them to be locked to certain providers in the same sort of way as mobiles are.
October 24th, 2006 at 7:27 pm on the 24th of October, 2006
I wouldn’t touch them with a bargepole. My father-in-law signed up for their package, after 3 months it still doesn’t work properly. I used to be with OneTel, when they got bought by TalkTalk our ‘free’ calls were transferred to BT, so we got charged twice. My wife got ripped off by a cold-calling Carphone Warehouse salesman, it took months to cancel the deal. Stay away from anything to do with Carphone Warehouse / TalkTalk !
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