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Is anyone else here unfortunate enough to be with Tiscali?!

Seems for some reason they throttle Youtube (and not just during "peak" hours). Other video sites work fine but if you try to use youtube videos take aaaages to download. The same with iplayer.

Does anyone else experience this with them? I could understand throttling torrents but Youtube throttling is a little over the top!! :mad:
 
seek said:
Is your contract signed in blood? Change it. Move to a decent provider.
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Yes it is. Long story but we used to be with bulldog, had a BT line installed and then once we had a BT number found out the local exchange was "full" so couldnt go with any other ISP. Tiscali was the only one. Now in a 12 month contract (one week in)... Web browsing seems fine but youtube runs sooo slowly.
 
was on Tiscali for years, and was d'loading a hell of a lot of stuff with no probs at all. changed to virgin, download 1 thing 700mb and now its cack slow.
 
Sgt_Pepper said:
was on Tiscali for years, and was d'loading a hell of a lot of stuff with no probs at all. changed to virgin, download 1 thing 700mb and now its cack slow.
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Lol. Ironic thing is we had a letter saying Bulldog was being taken over by Pipex/Tiscali so we decided to move. Got rid of the cable and wireless line, had a BT line installed and alas after all that BE internet who claimed "Broadband is available in your area" based on the postcode, changed their minds to "Your local exchange is full" when we had a BT line. Same went for O2 and other ISPs. Ended up having to go back to Tiscali directly. Ironic - hell yes.

Every video on youtube takes ages to load - but the same video if I find it elsewhere runs fine. Even loading the youtube site itself takes ages. Really weird so was wondering if other Tiscali people experience the same thing. A guy at work says he has the same problem :(
 
Lots of people have been complaining about youtube lately. I doubt it's anything specific to Tiscali.

People have been blaming everything from ISP's to browsers, but lets face it, the problem is more likely to be courtesy of youtube.
 
No, no, it is Tiscali. If it wasn't for Virgin and Plus.net Tiscali would win the title of ISP ef up of the year. And it's just the beginning, as they are moving Bulldog customers into the same oversold network by the end of summer.
Incidentally Dark Forces upstairs requested similar shaping in my workplace - during working hours stuff like youtube, 4od and iplayer is too slow to be usable.
 
.. it was the first ISP to break "unlimited" contracts, and changing T&Cs to one of the lowest download limits under one of the vaguest Fair Usage Policies. Plus.net was also one of the heaviest promoter of throttling and content shaping, at some point in 2005/6 reducing their oversold and overloaded network by two 155Mbps links and investing in Elacoyas to prioritize bandwidth. Years before that they were one of the first ISPs to introduce "warez tax" (extra payment for opening ports typically used for peer2peer etc) just to then use it against the same customers few years later. Misinterpretation of the word "unlimited" followed them throughout their entire carrer. In dialup times they asked 1100 customers to leave, because "some users spent too much time online" on their "unlimited dial-up". It was also the first of all ISPs to kick people out for the infamous "20% of users use 80% of all traffic" (very moving target, if you think about it, there is always 20% of "something" - once you kick those who download few terrabytes, the gigabyte guys become the 20% target). They also managed to loose 700 GB of customers email (and had no backup) and a year later expose their webmail users to trojan, the same summer someone flogged list of all email addresses from their webmail to spammers... As far as ISPs go, Plusnet is the new AOL of broadband world ...
 
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Rebelius said:
ummm... what's wrong with plusnet? fast, cheap, never had any downtime....:confused:
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Exactly! I've been with Plusnet for 4 years now and have never had a major problem. Speed's good, customer support is good and the price is good. Not to mention that I can download as much as I want without a problem. :)
 
Tiscali are fine, I've had no issues with them, they provide my TV and internet for £15/mth I'm constantly downloading and I haven't noticed anything untoward. Except youtube, which in my eyes is no big loss.
 
Yeah same here. Was going to post somthing but don't like the dramatic OMG FACEBOOK DOWN??!?11one posts...

Support forum suggests that its something down YT's end. I don't think theyre throttling us.
 
Azagoth said:
Not to mention that I can download as much as I want without a problem. :)
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Hmmm... no you can't matey. Even if you're on their most expensive package you're still on 1Gb a day/30Gb a month limit for 16 hours a day...
 
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