Nildram - good speed for newsgroups / Giganews

Raider · 25 Apr 2006 at 17:50

After the complete disaster of Evolution DSL, i'm looking to switch to Nildram.

However I need reasonably fast access to Giganews. Do they throttle downloads at all on any newsgroup ports?

Ta

Keylow · 25 Apr 2006 at 17:53

I had a usenet account about a month back. Wasn't Giganews but it maxed out my connections so no I dont think so. You even get a free giganews account with Nilly, although it is limited to 2x30KBps threads.

smids · 25 Apr 2006 at 17:58

I think Nildram quote their newsgroup bandwitdh - 2x 256kbps = 2 x 30KB/

Nildram website said:
Newsgroup access, - 2 x 256Kbps feeds, 20GB download limit per month

Broadband 2

Raider · 25 Apr 2006 at 18:03

Yeah I've heard from a few others who say that say nothing is throttled, so that's good.

Looks like Nildram is my next ISP

smids · 25 Apr 2006 at 18:04

Raider said:
Yeah I've heard from a few others who say that say nothing is throttled, so that's good.

Looks like Nildram is my next ISP

I might be joining you there - after my exams at least, not for newsgroups mind, just to escape MinusNet.

Gman · 25 Apr 2006 at 20:06

similar story here. already put in my MAC request and planning on going to Nilly the only thing putting me off at the moment is the Pipex connections.

Anyone got any info on how the pipex takeover has effect them ? as they seem to have sent f2s downhill fast.

smids · 25 Apr 2006 at 20:10

Gman said:
similar story here. already put in my MAC request and planning on going to Nilly the only thing putting me off at the moment is the Pipex connections.

Anyone got any info on how the pipex takeover has effect them ? as they seem to have sent f2s downhill fast.

Yeah, I'm also worried about that. However, their speeds from ADSLGuide's compare are very good compared to other ISP's. So far, I've only located Zen who are faster of the big ISP's.

Look at this - despite F2S's drop, Nildram remained perfectly steady

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Pho · 25 Apr 2006 at 20:10

If the news group access is like pipex you can upgrade and get a few extra GB / an extra connection or two for a small amount each month- probably works out cheaper than buying through a propper news seller.