well for me i guess that the real pain in the a**e must be the
NTL Poxy Proxies and the constant search for one that is working
if NTL can't fix the problem of the proxies then they should scrap
them ' after all we know that the system works without them because they turned them off in some areas , infact when they were turned off for a short time in this area the service was better , then NTL turned them back on and the same problems started again, i now use a non NTL public Proxy and my connection has never been better