Finally took the plunge and signed up for Nildram

DarkShadow · 11 Apr 2006 at 14:34

Well after Plusnet's announcement of cappage at 15GB I requested my MAC.

I then later on contacted Nildram and I have to say their CS is fantastic! The guy was straight up and very helpful and after reading up on Nildram, I felt it was one of the best options out there. I was looking at Evolution, apparantly it's meant to be good. I guess the CS support on Nildram won it over for me!

Looking forward to recieve something a little more than 1mb

stoofa · 11 Apr 2006 at 16:54

I've just completed my initial 12 months with Nildram and have been very happy with them.
Started on the 2mb connection and at the beginning of this week I was regraded over to MAX.
I'm certainly in no hurry to leave them.
They service is good however sometimes their CS can take a while to reply to e-mail requests for help.
However they do have two very regular posters over at www.adslguide.org.uk and they are always happy to try and help if you contact them through the forums there.

marc2003 · 11 Apr 2006 at 17:17

i don't think i'd sign with evolution. they don't even have a contact telelphone number yet and are offering the world for 25 sheets. 8mb uncapped, unshaped. at least they offer 1month contracts which is good.....

gam3r · 11 Apr 2006 at 17:28

Hope it goes well for you at nildram!

BigBoy · 11 Apr 2006 at 18:02

was with nildram for 3years nad have never had a problem but now the Girlfriend changed us over without my knowlage to TISCALI!!!!!!!!!! i feel sick no more gameing for me

cannot wait for the year contract to be up so i can change it back

Pulsedriver · 11 Apr 2006 at 18:05

Done exactly the same today mate, just waiting for the transfer!

Keylow · 11 Apr 2006 at 18:06

Well done. I'm sure you'll be very happy with Nilly

HangTime · 11 Apr 2006 at 18:12

BigBoy said:
was with nildram for 3years nad have never had a problem but now the Girlfriend changed us over without my knowlage to TISCALI!!!!!!!!!! i feel sick no more gameing for me cannot wait for the year contract to be up so i can change it back

Pffft, signing up with another ISP for a YEAR?!?! That's grounds for dumping her I'd say!

I've had adsl from nildram for over 4 years now and haven't really considered changing. They have long been regarded as the gamers isp (way back since the dialup days in the 90s) and generally have excellent routing and 'technical stuff'.

Their accounts department leaves a little to be desired but in general there aren't many better isps. They have a decent usage limit of 50gig/month onpeak, with midnight->8am being unlimited. On an 8mbit connection that means you can bring down around 750gig/month total which should be more than enough for anyone.

marc2003 · 11 Apr 2006 at 18:17

BigBoy said:
was with nildram for 3years nad have never had a problem but now the Girlfriend changed us over without my knowlage to TISCALI!!!!!!!!!! i feel sick no more gameing for me cannot wait for the year contract to be up so i can change it back

except tiscali don't do macs do they? you'll need to cease the adsl service on your line altogether and then re-apply (i think) :eek:

FunkyT · 11 Apr 2006 at 18:18

Nildram looks very tempting indeed...

BigBoy · 11 Apr 2006 at 19:16

marc2003 said:
except tiscali don't do macs do they? you'll need to cease the adsl service on your line altogether and then re-apply (i think)

yeah they do i have already investiagted that

thank god!!!

/me prostrates ones self to the almighty dsl god

marc2003 · 11 Apr 2006 at 20:39

BigBoy said:
yeah they do i have already investiagted that thank god!!!

/me prostrates ones self to the almighty dsl god

ah times have changed. glad i was wrong on that one....

antc · 11 Apr 2006 at 23:28

yep, you have made a very wise decision signing up with nildram. have been with them about 14 months now and not one prob. they even managed to get tiscali off my line and there service onto it when tiscali were giving my probs

cmr service is top class and they have been very helpful whenever i have needed anything sorting (mostly dealing with tiscali on my behalf)

a lot of people at work are with them and they have had no issues at all

enjoy

EagleOC · 11 Apr 2006 at 23:34

Another vote for Nildram here.

Been with 'em over three years. Faultless service and CS is top-notch!

FunkyT · 11 Apr 2006 at 23:40

I'm not a heavy downloader but occasionally like to use P2P - do Nildram throttle such traffic?

stoofa · 11 Apr 2006 at 23:50

At the moment there is no Traffic Shaping going on with Nildram.
The problem is because they do offer a generous on-peak allowance of 50GB, midnight-8:00am not counting towards your bandwidth, no traffic shaping lots of people are migrating in.
Of course Nildram's T&C's allow them to introduce such measures...

So at the moment you'll be fine, however they do reserve the right to start shaping in the future.

marc2003 · 11 Apr 2006 at 23:56

bear in mind nildram are owned by pipex. ok they might be a seperate entity for now but look what's happening at f2s*, another pipex owned isp........

(*more traffic shaping incase you don't know)

FunkyT · 12 Apr 2006 at 00:00

I want to download a file using P2P and am only getting 20KB/s whilst friends are getting in excess of 200KB/s!

Should Pipex be apply port throttling across the board 24/7?

I'm already paying £33.99/month which is one of the highest prices around!

marc2003 · 12 Apr 2006 at 00:05

FunkyT said:
I want to download a file using P2P and am only getting 20KB/s whilst friends are getting in excess of 200KB/s!

Should Pipex be apply port throttling across the board 24/7?

I'm already paying £33.99/month which is one of the highest prices around!

well if it's a torrent, you can grab utorrent and enable encryption. that'll get round pipex throttling for the time being. you'd be daft to think pipex won't clamp down on this little 'workaround' soon...... bit off topic for this thread though....

xiphrex · 12 Apr 2006 at 00:09

Nildram is awesome, been with them for years, fast speeds and reliable service!