[iain_herts]

ok then i foned up ntl from my uncles house and the person who i spoke to was very helpful said everything you have and done some testest on the modem he could ping the cable modem but not the pc but the cable modem displayed in the device manager so that also ruled out the cable so he said bring everything back to mine which i have done so i plug his laptop into my cable modem and worked. so i then pluged his cable modem into my wire and that did not work. but i plug my mums pc into the cable modem and that worked how strange but the person at ntl said fone back but there lines are down at the mo