[monkeh]

Welcome to ntHELL

I have has similar problems in luton for the last 8 months. the first 3 - 4 years were fine. it's gone downhill the last year. So much so that i am using my dialup for things like ebay, as it is quicker to load pages (using pipex)

ntl takes avg of 2mins to reload a page
dialup is 30 - 40 secs

I have found a solution though.............. I got a BT line installed in my house and now have 1mb adsl. It's amazing the difference with 2 computers running on different broadband connections. the ntl line is 5x slower for browsing.

Have you tried running the docsdiag yet ?
It can show the traffic on your connection (well on the router your connected to)

UBR 172.28.167.254 at 2004 Mar 20, 21:40

Channel Freq Max Usage Users Min Ave Max
MHz kbps kbps ms ms ms
Dnstr 0 402.75? 30342 26724 1500 20 144 490
Upstr 1 37.6 2560 902 314 40 167 481
Upstr 2 40.8 2560 826 320 30 154 441
Upstr 3 34.4 2560 1061 298 30 144 490
Upstr 4 37.6 2560 744 200 20 113 441
Upstr 5 40.8 2560 1690 82 30 150 410
Upstr 6 34.4 2560 800 186 30 113 480