Comments for Broadband Finder Blog

Comment on Lord Carter’s Digital Britain report arrives today by Rob Abdul

Rob Abdul — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:10:58 +0000

I love the virgin brand. I wish the best for them.

Comment on Happy House: O2 Bring Broadband Home by home made wind generators

home made wind generators — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 12:14:37 +0000

Well put story. Will visit again

Comment on Tiscali officially joins the TalkTalk family by Tom

Tom — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:39:02 +0000

Hi Barbara,

it sounds like you’re on Tiscali’s Broadband Only package, which would explain why you’re not getting the evening and weekend calls. This costs £14.99 a month, the same as Tiscali Broadband with E&W calls, the only difference in price is that you don’t pay a £30 connection fee.

John,

it looks as though nothing is going to change regarding Tiscali packages for the time being - the only difference now is that the UK arm of the company is owned by the Carphone Warehouse. There should be no changes to any part of your service, broadband, phone or digital TV.

Hope this helps,

-Tom

Comment on Tiscali officially joins the TalkTalk family by John Worley

John Worley — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:34:03 +0000

In addition to my comments at 10:25 pm, I also have a TV package with Tiscali (included in the 24.99) which is very usful if the digital signal through my TV aerial is not good.

Comment on Tiscali officially joins the TalkTalk family by John Worley

John Worley — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:25:21 +0000

There seems to be a problem in understanding Tiscali packages.
I pay £24.99 a month and for this I get:
Broadband, line rental, free phone calls(except 0870 etc)24/7
Free phone calls to USA, Australia, Spain, France.24/7
I paid nothing for the router or connection.
Is anyone saying that all these will end when Talk Talk takes over?

Comment on Eclipse Internet casts a shadow over spam by Zefram

Zefram — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:31:39 +0000

Curious that Eclipse make a point of talking about its anti-spam credentials at just about the same time that they themselves started spamming. After some five years of perfectly good service, they spammed me on 2008-09-02. It turned out that they’d decided, on that occasion, to spam specifically those customers who had actively told them not to send such messages. This is not just spam but also in contravention of a couple of laws, notably the Data Protection Act.

After I cancelled my Eclipse service, and so was no longer their customer, they proceeded to send me a pricing update and then a second customer-oriented spam. They seem to have stopped now, but it’s taken some effort on my part. To send that last spam they’ve ignored my original instruction against direct marketing, my service cancellation, and then me pointing out (after the pricing update) that I wasn’t their customer any more.

Eclipse used to be clueful. It’s sad to see how far they’ve fallen.

Comment on Tiscali officially joins the TalkTalk family by barbara cameron

barbara cameron — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:14:24 +0000

date for finish of my package deal, Ihave had no free phone calls
although I am paying £14 99 per month. I can only get through to tiscali by paying a premium phone number please e mail me.

Comment on Virgin Media trials ‘record breaking’ 200Mbps service by BestHelen

BestHelen — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 00:00:56 +0000

I have found what i was looking for !!! thx )

Comment on Orange tie down Project Kangaroo plans by Logic Computers Falkirk

Logic Computers Falkirk — Thu, 21 May 2009 23:39:50 +0000

20 million, woo hoo.. what an investment in exsisting broadband technology

Comment on Happy House: O2 Bring Broadband Home by REEXBRUSY

REEXBRUSY — Wed, 20 May 2009 22:28:10 +0000

Good info!! will definitely visit soon.

Comment on Gadget Show votes Samsung NC-10 ‘best mini-laptop’ by bum cheek said

bum cheek said — Wed, 13 May 2009 17:20:19 +0000

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha =@ lolz its bad

Comment on Gadget Show votes Samsung NC-10 ‘best mini-laptop’ by dylan

dylan — Wed, 13 May 2009 17:18:10 +0000

lol its bad

Comment on Virgin customers choke on new bandwidth limits by Tulip

Tulip — Sat, 09 May 2009 22:02:58 +0000

I think Virgin should sort out their infrastructure rather than punish customers! I’m a musician, I upload and download high quality large audio wav files in 32 bit 96khz format via FTP to other musicians to work on. 1 minute of this audio is roughly 100mb. Time is money in the music industry and everyday my connection is hammered by virgin for exceeding their ‘unlimited super fast broadband’ speil. Halfing my connection and doubling time spent.

Comment on Virgin Media speed boost to upgrade 2.6m homes to 10Mbps by Richard

Richard — Wed, 06 May 2009 23:49:26 +0000

When will this happen fro me? I am in Leeds, upgrade will be good for me as I work from home.

Comment on Gadget Show votes Samsung NC-10 ‘best mini-laptop’ by Dango

Dango — Wed, 06 May 2009 09:46:25 +0000

I personally think that this device is far better, and gets 10 out of 10 for portability and functionality!

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Comment on Virgin Media speed boost to upgrade 2.6m homes to 10Mbps by Chris

Chris — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:34:33 +0000

“we clearly offer the highest quality broadband service in the UK” is a misleading comment. Just being the fastest does not imply quality, a factor that I find VM are lacking, being a customer of theirs. If the speeds are consistent then it would be great. However their policy of throttling bandwidth after a very low download limit is exceeded means that I find myself on lower than average speeds, and certainly nowhere near the argued UK fastest.

Comment on Virgin Media bills Hard to understand? The Home Sec’s Home Sex Scandal by Jacq Off

Jacq Off — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 07:44:30 +0000

What a farce. She should go, she is an embaraasemnt and is a dangerous woman. She wants to keep tabs on everyones internet browsing histories, but she wants to keep her expenses a secret well I guess now us taxpayers know why/.

Comment on Broadband subscriptions now total 400m globally by Elizabeth Veitch

Elizabeth Veitch — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 05:33:07 +0000

Hi - I write a small regional newsletter for an organisation in Australia (the Capital Region Area Consultative Committee) and would like to use this great image to illustrate an article on Australia’s new broadband network scheme. Cld you pls advise whether this would be alright, or would it contravene copyright?
Thanks,
Liz

Comment on BT: Fibre on the streets of Ebbsfleet by Ebbsfleet is the ticket to Business in Europe

Ebbsfleet is the ticket to Business in Europe — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 17:12:15 +0000

The expense of rolling out 100 mb fibre all over the UK would be too much to start to calulate. The cost of installing it made sense at Ebbsfleet Valley as it will likely be used for business and the Ebbsfleet International. BT has started by arranging plans for more fibre exchanges around major cities such as London. They will connect to each to form an internal fibre web. Imagine the failover plan if we just use fibre?

mel x

Comment on BT to trial FTTC 40Mb broadband in 2009 by BT Ebbsfleet

BT Ebbsfleet — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:59:52 +0000

This time BT has beaten the competition with 100 mb broadband, even with new wi fi speeds emerging, BT fibre has less to compete with, then compete to. Fibre is still next gen technology imagine 100 mb wifi!!!