Ive been gaming online over 4 yrs, you can spot an NTL gamer as he\she usually has the worst ping on most servers.
Ive stopped playing for a while, i,m waiting for ntl to decide to fix my connection, or if they want to, or maybe this is the best it gets.
But ive had one meg almost 2yrs and gamings not much fun anymore.
You can have a 10mbit connection, but if your pings bad, forget it.
In fact an NTL employee told me last week on the phone, i would be better off on 750, he said the ping would be probably be as bad, but i would save money.
Fair comment.