What's your experience of this company as a broadband provider?
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What's your experience of this company as a broadband provider?
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I'm Jez.
Good but expensive. Pretty on the ball in the rare circumstances of a fault with the line etc. My biggest bugbear is with the phone line from them. The phone only rings 4 times (four sets of the normal 2 rings) before their answering service kicks in and believe it or not there is no way to get round this AFAIK. Fine if you're in the same room but if you are taking a leak when the phone rings... I'm sick of having to sprint to the phone, usually just avoiding tripping over the cat in the process!
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Plustec are best Ive used. Think bt owns them but that's where the similarity ends.
Zen are supposedly best but expensive.
Ive got fibre and phone plus get the bt app for footy now. Had them 3 years and no trouble.
Daughter has tt and they get some bother but overall bare able
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Location: Middlesex, UK
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I'm Alex.
I've been with Talktalk for 10 years now, they have improved, I supposed they had to! They nearly always offer me a good deal after a bit of negotiating.
For broadband, TV (which I don't use), phone package that gives me free UK calls to landlines and mobiles, and line rental, all lumped together= £24.99 per month.
Last edited by spendorman; 27-09-2017 at 19:05.
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Why don't you just turn the voicemail off, or get it turned off, and fit a telephone answering machine instead?Originally Posted by Arkless Electronics
I'm assuming that you want folk to be able to leave messages.
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I'm Dave.
Crap, was with them for a few years. All this stuff about being hacked etc. We had a few problems, they couldn't give two hoots what problems we were having. Few friends left too ( talk talk box problems ). Now with BT, only reason why they gave you £150.00 when we joined, not sure we will stay as after 12 months, as charges increase. Fine for now though.
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I'm Jez.
Like I said you can't turn it off AFAIK. I did look into it and it's a common complaint about talk talk.
Arkless Electronics-Engineered to be better. Tel. 01670 530674 (after 1pm)
Modded Thorens TD150, Audio Technica AT-1005 MkII, Technics EPC-300MC, Arkless Hybrid MC phono stage, Arkless passive pre, Arkless 50WPC Class A SS power amp, (or) Arkless modded Leak Stereo 20, Modded Kef Reference 105/3's
ReVox PR99, Studer B62, Ferrograph Series 7, Tandberg TCD440, Hitachi FT-5500MkI, also FT-5500MkII
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Cables- free interconnects that come with CD players, mains leads from B&Q, dead kettles etc, extension leads from Tesco
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Location: NE England
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I'm Jez.
That's about a tenner less than I'm paying for what sounds like the same service... Hmm must look into this! I don't use TV either...
Arkless Electronics-Engineered to be better. Tel. 01670 530674 (after 1pm)
Modded Thorens TD150, Audio Technica AT-1005 MkII, Technics EPC-300MC, Arkless Hybrid MC phono stage, Arkless passive pre, Arkless 50WPC Class A SS power amp, (or) Arkless modded Leak Stereo 20, Modded Kef Reference 105/3's
ReVox PR99, Studer B62, Ferrograph Series 7, Tandberg TCD440, Hitachi FT-5500MkI, also FT-5500MkII
Digital: Yamaha CDR-HD1500 (Digital Swiss army knife-CD recorder, player, hard drive, DAC and ADC in one), PC files via 24/96 sound card and SPDIF, modded Philips CD850, modded Philips CD104, modded DPA Little Bit DAC. Sennheiser HD580 cans with Arkless Headphone amp.
Cables- free interconnects that come with CD players, mains leads from B&Q, dead kettles etc, extension leads from Tesco
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Location: Middlesex, UK
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I'm Alex.
Funny thing, Talktalk seems to be one of the few companies that appears to take loyalty in to consideration. On my last bill, I had one call lasting nearly two hours, As it was over the 1 hour allowed free, I was charged just under £5. I spoke to them and said that although I knew the number called to, I didn't recollect it being nearly two hours. They looked in to my call history and saw that this long call was not typical, and without any pushing, credited my account with the cost of that call.
Spendorman
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I'm Clive.
That's strange because I'm with TalkTalk and don't have their answering service....I use a phone with its own answering machine.
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