Tiscali speed

I had to post these figures to warn anybody who is remotely thinking about choosing tiscali as their ISP.

Tiscali Broadband Speed Test Results
Results from broadband speed test recorded on Monday, 13 February 2006, 20:18.

Your Connection
Direction
Actual Speed
True Speed (estimated)

Downstream 121 Kbps (15.1 KB/sec) 130 Kbps (inc. overheads)
Upstream 73 Kbps (9.1 KB/sec) 78 Kbps (inc. overheads)

Tracing route to www.bbc.net.uk [212.58.224.88]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 801 ms 742 ms 753 ms rdg-0-dsl.as9105.net [212.74.111.194]
2 751 ms 767 ms 780 ms pos3-0.he-lon0.as9105.net [212.74.108.6]
3 811 ms 800 ms 799 ms ge-5-1-0.lon22.ip.tiscali.net [213.200.77.177]
4 928 ms 877 ms 827 ms ge-7-1.core2.London1.Level3.net [213.200.77.130]

5 798 ms 784 ms 777 ms ae-0-54.gar2.London1.Level3.net [4.68.116.108]
6 781 ms 794 ms 762 ms so-6-0.metro1-londencyh00.London1.Level3.net [21
2.113.3.30]
7 782 ms 815 ms 796 ms bbc-gw0-linx.prt0.thdoe.bbc.co.uk [195.66.224.10
3]
8 791 ms 811 ms 810 ms 212.58.238.153
9 805 ms 789 ms 819 ms www51.thdo.bbc.co.uk [212.58.224.88]

Trace complete.

These figures are what tiscali internet call normal and say this is what you can expect on a 50 to 1 contention ratio 1Mbps connection

This is why I decided to move to a new ISP.

You will notice anybody that posts good speed from tiscali. In most cases, are a tiscali stool pigeon or in other words People who are employed by tiscali and used to counteract any negative posts about them on the various forums.
Which is why, after a few hours on tiscali's own broadband Forum. Most negative posts are removed within 24 hours.

BT Isp

So it's inside, why involve my ISP?

Probably the generic answer - i.e. I've shown its not in my realm to fix, and so since I know you have broadband contact them, they may have a maintenance contract with a firm that will visit and resolve these sorts of thing.

In short - fix the problem yourself or pay someone to do it.

BT Fault

I have a fault on my phone line that results in a loud crackling noise on the speech circuit. ADSL is fine.I question what it has to do with my ISP, BT Yahoo broadband.Ah,well,you have an ADSL faceplate fitted (by BT 4 months ago) on the master socket and the fitting of the plate was instigated by your ISP,which it was following an ongoing BB problem at the time. I have been told by this engineer that I have to contact my ISP before anything more can be done. BT Yahoo internet 151 say it is an undergound fault external to my home.

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IPN Consultants (www.ipnconsultants.co.uk) announced that it has added to its growing VoIP Carrier capabilities by launching a VoIP-to-PSTN breakout delivery service designed specifically for large Enterprises and Call Centre’s who deploy multiple ISDN 30’s. The service allows 240 outbound calls over a single E1 (2Meg) line. Such volumes in the traditional telephony infrastructure would require 8 fully lit ISDN 30’s. IPN can reduce that costly infrastructure to the equivalent of 1 ISDN 30.

Additionally, IPN see this solution being deployed to solve the issues of getting cost effective ISDN30 pricing across geographically dispersed Call Centre locations. For call centres who want to interconnect multiple sites, the IPN solution will allow them to disconnect 8 TDM E1 inter-site connections, in the UK or globally, and replace them with a single E1 and still maintain the integrity of their PBX signalling and call quality.

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