HeHe!
Thanks for your help guys..and paul666 sorry for the wrong pm ...
As an update...rang tech this pm (about 4) in game pings were 250 in uk servers...browsing awful...tech guy offered me new proxies inc ahem manchester and nottingham (i thought that was funny...)...though he admitted it wouldn't help ma ping...
he also had me do a robin walker speed test:
512
952
950
650
that's on 1mb....
He said he would put this to a "level three" - is this like a Defcon alert status or summat?