I joined Totalise the day it began after getting tired of failed connects I had previously experienced with Freeserve.
After 18 months with them I have very rarely encountered an engaged tone and have always got fast downloads with them.
There was an occasion when my housemate knackered ... Read review
Advantages: Fast connects, own telephone service, free shares Disadvantages: none
I joined Totalise the day it began after getting tired of failed connects I had previously experienced with Freeserve.
After 18 months with them I have very rarely encountered an engaged tone and have always got fast downloads with them.
There was an occasion when my housemate knackered my computer's settings by deleting some of Windows' system files because he didn't know what they did - I managed to get things up and ... ...This is where Totalise came into it's own - I called their technical support and they went through all the possibilities with me patiently - and when that didn't work they took my phone number and went away to work it out and called me back with an answer!
Many people have joined Totalise for the free company share allocations. I sold my first tranche at 95p in February 1999 for £385. This more than covers my phone charges. I only ... more
I joined Totalise the day it began after getting tired of failed connects I had previously experienced with Freeserve.
After 18 months with them I have very rarely encountered an engaged tone and have always got fast downloads with them.
There was an occasion when my housemate knackered my computer's settings by deleting some of Windows' system files because he didn't know what they did - I managed to get things up and running again, but could not connect to the internet. This is where Totalise came into it's own - I called their technical support and they went through all the possibilities with me patiently - and when that didn't work they took my phone number and went away to work it out and called me back with an answer!
Many people have joined Totalise for the free company share allocations. I sold my first tranche at 95p in February 1999 for £385. This more than covers my phone charges. I only really sold them to cure my sceptism! I have now amassed over 1500 shares, and although they are worth significantly less than 95p I am confident that they will go up again.
Totalise have built up a number of businesses and have a contract with Direct Line to supply cars for their JamJar website.
A lot of the downward pressure on the shareprice is bound to have been caused by the sale of member's free shares - when this starts to stem the shareprice should increase - as there are only a finite number of shares available for issue.
Personally, I would (and have!) recommend Totalise to anyone, because apart from rewarding customers with free shares they're a damn good ISP and offer a wide range of services.
Lastly, a little known Totalise service is speechmail. If you're on the move and you want to check your email, just whip out your mobile and dial speechmail and it will read you your mail! Then if you wish to reply, dictate your message and it sends it as a .wav file - excellent stuff!
UPDATE!
I needed to contact Totalise technical support yesterday (Sunday) to find out how to get an additional email address for a uni project.
I sent them an email and got an automatic reply saying they would look into my query and get back to me within 12 hours. I got a full reply from them within five minutes with a link enclosed directing me to the right place on the Totalise site. It must have taken them a few minutes to type in the response because it gave me all the details I needed. It also gave the name of the support operator in case of any problems.
I have always found Totalise's service excellent and see this as yet another example of their prompt, efficient, and couteous service. Ten out of ten again, Totalise!
Advantages: Quick responses from technical support via email. Disadvantages: Frustrating when trying to download large files.
...will once again become the fantastic service that all totalise users have grown to know and love. But at the moment the service can be unusuable at times, especially if you plan to download large files. I would recommend against any new users signing up at this time. ...
bonecruncher 24.03.2001
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Advantages: Excellent Service levels & Innovative Offerings Disadvantages: Don't respond very well to direct emails
...by other Ciao members on Totalise so I will not try to duplicate.
Firstly, I am an experienced IT professional manager and have dealt with the internet over many years. Totalise seems to be the best ISP offering that I have come across. I have signed up to the unlimited access which I paid £240 for 2 years worth of access. Whilst this alone seems a reasonable price, i.e. £20 per month for unlimited access, I also received shares in the company which ... ...Totalise that I invested a large sum of my own money when they floated on the AIM in purchasing shares.
Services that I frequently use are Totalise Telecom which I have added my main home ohone through & Flowers2send which is a door-to-door flower offering.
Real advantages come with the email service. When I am at work we have a complete block on employees accessing their home email services. Totalise allows you to call Speechmail and a computer ...
dsjrichards 22.03.2001
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Advantages: excellent website, free shares for several services, full range of services for users, reliable and quick connection Disadvantages: not much
...as using AOL and the Totalise service is by far the best. Firstly, this is a ‘user review’ rather than a technical one. I’d suggest, if you know nothing about Totalise and my little article sparks your interest – go visit their website. It is extremely user friendly and helpful – but I will not be going into vast detail about In fact there are a number of highly useful links on the home page to take you to the Eurekar ... ...those are part of the Totalise group, so you can see we are not dealing with a ‘fly by night operation’ here , but one that’s in for the long haul. You also get links to all the regular features, found as standard on just about everey home page, News, Travel, Sports, Motoring conditions and a Search engine. The email service is excellent and I use it as one of my main emails, despite no longer using Totalise as my ISP. It is a webmail ...
flashpointz 28.02.2001
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Advantages: Excellent connection and range of services Disadvantages: None at all (except that you need an existing internet connection to register)
...was recommended to switch to Totalise from my original ISP (Demon), which was slow and unreliable due to oversubscription.
It was one of the best recommendations I've ever received.
I was attracted by the fact that you effectively get money back for using something you would have used anyway. This is through Totalise issuing you with shares in the company, just by using it as your ISP portal. These shares, unlike most other promises on the internet, ... ...apparently.
I still use Totalise as my ISP, and will continue to use it, as the doling out of free shares give me an incentive to use it, plus I have absolutely no complaints about them - their service is excellent.
They also give you free technical support by telephone - 0800 number - if you get completely stuck (which is very rare)
Totalise seem to be bringing out an ever increasing portfolio of products.
The one I find particularly useful ...
Mushroom 26.07.2000
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Advantages: Nice e-mail system Disadvantages: This company are not entirely what they seem.
...IF YOU ARE CONSIDERING A TOTALISE ACCOUNT.
I will probably get completely hammered for posting this opinion and lose hundreds of those hard earned Ciao points - what the hell, the farce that is Totalise needs telling.
As an ISP Totalise are OK. I think their e-mail system is fairly nifty, certainly compared to the likes of Hotmail, performance wise it leaves them for dead. Especially since the latest server upgrade.
Their home page is a little ... ...couple of days!.
When Totalise launched their service it was a new idea, get an account and use it and you earn shares in the company - great. No-one expected to get rich from it, but nor did they expect the unscrupulous management to fold the company with no notice and at a time when they were heading for profitability. True they were running out of cash, but also true, money was being generated from wholly owned operations like flowes2send, Eurekar, ...
jacksonandy 17.06.2002 (19.06.2002)
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