About to go broadband.

Leaning towards Nildram - any comments?


Thanks in advance

Derek

"Derek Baker" <derekbaker@XXXXwhsmithnet.co.uk> wrote in message
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Try:

http://bbs.adslguide.org.uk/postlist...&Board=nildram

James.

On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 08:18:44 +0100, "Derek Baker"
<derekbaker@XXXXwhsmithnet.co.uk> wrote:

In two weeks as of today, working a treat so far, significant improvement
on the 1meg NTL it replaced.


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Thanks for the reply. Already active at adslguide - that's where I got
Nildram from.

Derek

"James Hurrell" <j_hurrellREMOVE@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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"Derek Baker" <derekbaker@XXXXwhsmithnet.co.uk> wrote in message
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For what it's worth... been with Nildram 9 months on office line and 4
months on home line (both Home 500) and don't have a bad word to say.

One outage that lasted 4 hours during January and loss of email service for
an afternoon are the only blips I've had. Don't use the News service, but
webspace seems to work OK.

Speeds are consistently high on ADSLGuide:

Downstream 463 Kbps (57.9 KB/sec) 500 Kbps (inc. overheads)
Upstream 243 Kbps (30.4 KB/sec) 262 Kbps (inc. overheads)


Hope that helps.

James

"Derek Baker" <derekbaker@XXXXwhsmithnet.co.uk> wrote in
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Been with them a couple of years, no real complaints as it's basically
worked. One thing I would say is that I'm sure as of late things have got
slower (hard to describe, speedtests check out, but general browsing seems
kind of "laggy"). I'm sure it's contention or just all the virus/dodgy
traffic floating around, but it has been noticable to me (given nothing
else has changed).

As it stands the only other ISP I'd consider is Andrews & Arnold, the main
thing putting me off is the charge of a migration. I don't have any
special requirements, but I'd prefer dealing with a smaller company, I
think Nildram has grown so much that that's no longer the case.

regards
Paul
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"Paul Hutchings" <paul@spamcop.net> wrote in message
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Seems a few people are having trouble with browsing, see here:

http://bbs.adslguide.org.uk/showthre...sb=5&o=&fpart=

Is it still bad for you?


Derek

"Derek Baker" <derekbaker@XXXXwhsmithnet.co.uk> wrote in
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Hard to say, I guess in the good old days of dial up you could choose a
different ISP in 2 minutes and easily see if it got better, not so easy
with BB.

It does still seem slower that I remember it being, perhaps not by an awful
lot, but as I said, it's still been noticable to me.

regards
Paul
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"Derek Baker" <derekbaker@XXXXwhsmithnet.co.uk> wrote in message
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Been with them since may and not had any problems, the only downtime has
been BTs or my end,the service has been consistently fast with no
restrictions.

The lack of more than 1 POP mail box is my only gripe.

On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 08:18:44 +0100, "Derek Baker"
<derekbaker@XXXXwhsmithnet.co.uk> wrote:

ADSL service seems good, but support pretty appalling. I've had a
couple of fairly straightforward issues to resolve concerning a
corrupt password and an incomplete set-up of the free webspace (both
problems at the Nildram end). The first took 3-4 phone calls spaced
over about 10 days to resolve. The second still hasn't been sorted
after a similar period of time. Seems that unless you're very
persistent, which mostly I just don't have the time for, any support
issues just get discarded if they can't be sorted easily and
immediately. Pretty unimpressive for a service that claims to offer
more than cheap and cheerful. At a guess they only have a fraction of
the technical support they really need. So it's OK as long as nothing
goes wrong!

John Dann

Hello,

Yes, would agree with your observations and comments. Similar kind of
issues with responses and resolutions measured in days/weeks rather
than hours which would not be unreasonable to expect.

If you do win the lottery and actually get to speak to someone, then
the depth of knowledge and customer support is first class.

It is an unknown quantity if it is any better elesewhere with no test
and try options available toi compare. The ADSL Guide may show
Nildram in the No.1 position but it is pretty small set of criteria to
get that ranking.

David Bradley



On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 21:22:06 +0100, John Dann <news@prodata.co.uk>
wrote:

"David Bradley" <btinternet.com@david.bradley7> wrote in message
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Thanks for the replies everyone.

Going to order from Nildram.

Now all I have to do is decide what router to buy!


Thanks

Derek

Derek Baker wrote:

Vigor 2600

On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 15:40:38 +0100, Bat Guano enlightened us all with:

seconded !

<http://www.draytek.co.uk/products/vigor2600.html>
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Anything except a DG814

In article <vmre39lraqap0a@corp.supernews.com>, bat.guano@talk21dotcom
(Bat Guano) wrote:

variant.

I'm sure you won't be disappointed

- Steve

On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 17:34:25 +0100, "Richard Whitcombe"
<Richard.Whitcombe@btinternet.com> wrote:

Monty .

In message <homrmvkp43qu0qf6a86s6bbtoq408c3pd8@4ax.com>, Monty
<monty@lancs.no-ip.com> writes
I would still recommend the Vigor 2600


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Richard Whitcombe wrote:
I've had exactly 1 outage since moving from BTOpenWoe to Nildram. And that was because BT decided I was moving & deprovisioned me... It took 4 days to get it back...

Run your own mail server then. That's why I switched to Nildram. BT started to filter port 25 and wouldn't take it off. So I voted with my feet & went to Nildram. A 2 minute test to make sure I wasn't an open relay and they removed the port 25 filter that they put on by default.

No problems since.


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& went to Nildram. A 2 minute test to make sure I wasn't an open relay and
they removed the port 25 filter that they put on by default.
Running my own server was an option i looked at but with the DG814 router
crashing often and regulary it wasnt worth it - id lose too much mail if it
crashed and i was away for 2 weeks. Ive got my own domain which i use an
external hosting service for.

My point is, the "unlimited pop3 addresses" used in the advertising WOULD
have been perfectly adequate for me if it'd been separate POP boxes - id
have had no need to run a domain and host mail. Im not the only one to feel
slightly misled by their advertising and statements over this (and i believe
theyve recently changed ther wording).