Thought this was very informative and explains a lot !
ISPreview UK - Internet Service Provider Information Source
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i don't get this -- i was unable to use lw during peak hours (and more hours either side -- *many* hours before during the weekend) right from day one of signing up to tiscali at which point of course i can't possibly have been a heavy user.

I am unfortunately with tiscali and at peak times my computer just freezes and nothing happens. As you say until during the day but not in the evening. I have read all the threads but is there actually an answer to this or just change supplier?

Amanda33

Figure out what your other ISP options are, first. See how they stack up to your current ISP. I'm not sure you can do much worse (from what I read), but I would check it out first (search these forums for other ISPs available to you) before I made a decision.

Good Luck

Dan

Hi Andy,
I am also on tiscali and I have not had any problems at all. At this very second it is 12.13pm and I am downloading 240kb's and I have been all morning. Sorry If that upsets anyone but I thought you should know that not all tiscali connections are restricted (thank you lord).
Tony.

Good for you, wait till you hit the upload limit !!
Keep going while you can,
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Ynot Hi
What £s do you pay for your connection ?

How long have you had this connection ?

Try Downloading at 8pm see how you get on
OH!! Keep One eye on your tiscali E mail, you will get a warning then You will be moved on to another server, For heavy users.

Your living in a fools paradise my friend.
Peace.

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mickjapa108

Hi
another annoyed uk tiscali user here with the same probs - cant get connected to any music download sites, despite going through help pages and taking the advice there. I havent managed to download anything here since December 06. The time of day makes no difference. Bearshare's the only one that actually connects for me, but with very few search results or none at all, so not much cop there either really.

From another shortly lost tiscali customer.

Hi
Just an update on my last post
After reading an earlier post on here, I tried using LW at an unusually unearthly time of 7am, which I had never done before (who would at that time in the morning?) but tried this, just out of curiosity.
LW worked perfectly! I couldn’t believe it, after spending hours of finding out where this other firewall was showing as blocking me to the LW connection that I knew nothing about - that’s because there wasn’t a second firewall on my PC (I had already made an exception for LW in the windows firewall, the only firewall that I knew of on my PC).
The answer that took me 6months to find out, was tiscali limiting me at peak time. Tiscali had previously advised me to uninstall their program and then reinstall it, to try and cure my connection problems.
It made no difference in using LW and took 4 hours to try and regain an internet connection!! plus an hour on the helpline to them.
I have been on LW for 3 days in a row at this time and it still works!! Bliss!! However , the LW connection icon bars start to reduce at about 11 am and at this point the downloading process stops.
I would advise anyone with same prob on Tiscali to give this a try, it maybe your only solution until you switch your ISP.

> The answer that took me 6months to find out, was tiscali limiting me at peak time.

is it definitely them actually blocking do you think? or a case of too much traffic in general? it is probably actual blocking isn't it, because web pages etc continue to work ok.

i've been emailing them continuously for the last few months and i received a phone call message from them today about me not being able to use p2p during non peak hours. i was out and they said they'd try again later.

i've had an email from them categorically stating they do not block p2p traffic. there surely is a legal issue here?

i can't use lw at all at the moment -- no connection so can't search. maybe it'd work at 7am but it isn't at about 1 or 2 am.

> I have been on LW for 3 days in a row at this time and it still works!! Bliss!! However , the LW connection icon bars start to reduce at about 11 am and at this point the downloading process stops.

so you're getting 4 hours a day of p2p use and that's it? and that's bliss?!


does what port is used (in lw's preferences) make any difference has anyone found?