Nildram. Now Capped

[DR]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/03...roadband_hogs/

Nildram is clamping down on broadband hogs by imposing new usage caps for its consumer high speed service.

Although the Pipex-owned ISP doesn't detail the extent of the problem, it does say the introduction of a fair usage policy will "address the issue of heavy Internet usage".

Nildram - which has 40,000 broadband punters - is introducing a usage limit of 50 Gig a month for non-business customers, which applies between 8.00am - 12.00 midnight. Outside of this time, no usage limit will apply.

From July, punters who exceed the 50 Gig limit will either see their service speed choked to 64k for the rest of their billing month, they can buy extra bandwidth at 99p a Gig.

The new capping rules will not apply to Nildram's customers who subscribe to its "Professional" product range.

Said MD Sean Stephenson: "At a time when many service providers are undecided about how to handle the issue of 'capping' Internet usage, Nildram has released clear, fair measures to ensure that all of our customers continue to have the best quality service possible.

"We estimate that less than one per cent of our customers will be affected by these measures and we're confident that they provide enough headroom for personal download usage, while also benefiting from our highly competitive pricing."

Last month Tiscali UK expelled "just over 500" broadband users for excessive use of the ISP's high-speed internet service. The ISP said the bandwidth "hogs" gorged on between 30 Gig and 150 Gig a month. At the same time, the average Tiscali UK punter uses less than one Gig a month.

In November last year Sheffield-based ISP PlusNet shunted around 240 of its heaviest broadband users onto a new platform - dubbed the "bad boy pipe" - after warning them that they were using the service too much. ®

[spazman]

Not bad though, it rolls over too the next month if you dont use all of it, and its only at peak times. Im rang up earlier and got it changed to this, only cost £11. Just hope my line will take the 2mb

[Gordy]

Thought it was £13 to regrade now?

Just trying to decide now tbh , 15 day wait or july....

[DR]

I would just wait ;-)

[grabbi_21]

Already regraded to 2Mbps from the £25.99 512k service, get it 12/03/05 The caps really aren't an issue to me, bet I downloaded less than 20GB last month.

[Norky]

**prays to the gods of Zen for continued uncapped b/w**

[spazman]

It is £13 my mistake, just got to wait for my line to be tested for the 2mb rating.

[Sk!mD4Rk]

I'm happy about the changes. I was looking for a faster connection, now this sort of makes my mind up for me.

I was going to regrade but yeah, i'll probably wait for it instead now.

I hated the idea of caps originally but something had/has to be done. It just means being a bit more selective about what you download

And online gaming should benefit from less congestion, would it not?

[grabbi_21]

It is £13 my mistake, just got to wait for my line to be tested for the 2mb rating.

When you entered your phone no. in the regrade screen it said the line needed testing? Mine just said the line is capable and continued

[scottyman]

ok then - what's the home500 service? my flat has it installed and it's 25.10 per month + VAT (which is a really odd number) and home500 doesn't actually exist on their website.

color me confuzzled.

[spazman]

When you entered your phone no. in the regrade screen it said the line needed testing? Mine just said the line is capable and continued

I rang up to do the regrade, took 2 minutes spoke to a nice sounding lady. She told me it would be 2 or 3 days before BT tested my line for the speed. If i goto my account details on the nildram website and look at account tracking it has this Type: dsl2000 Status: Provisioning on-hold Date: 03/03/2005. Its very strange because when i got ADSL originally 3 or 4 years ago, 512k was all the on-line line checker said i could get. When they removed the 1mb distance limit it would say i could get 1mb, and then just recently maybe a month or so now it has said i can get 2mb. Im just keeping my fingers crossed that it will let me get the full 2mb.

[Gordy]

I ordered my regrade this morning, should be able to get 2mb easily. There is a 10-15 wait for regrades which isnt bad.

Also those on the standard 512k package will have to pay the regrade fee as they will be left as standard as far as I understand it.

[Dooms]

Well i got nilly back at my parents house however now im in london im on bulldog. My rents wont care about a 50gb limit, infact im moving them down to pay as you go anyway.

[[GSV]Trig]

Do NTL cap?
I only download about a gb a week anyways....

[Matt1eD]

[QUOTE=spazman]it rolls over too the next month if you dont use all of it, and its only at peak times.[QUOTE]

That's good. Rolling over . Of course I hope I'm never capped on my ISP, but it'll probably come one day and if so this 50GB things fair.

[spazman]

Got mine upgraded today, 2mb is fast!