Hello there,
I've just noticed this problem last week when I was unable to connect to a friends game server while others had no problems joining at all. I then ran a tracert and pings and saw nothing but "Request Timed Out". I also found with the tracerts, that it didn't show any routes through NTL.
I therefore came across this post and tried to get to the website
www.laserservices.co.uk and also had no luck viewing it where other people I know were able to. I flushed the dns as well as clearing all the cache without any luck to solving this problem.
I'm also on NTL:Freedom with the ip range of 217.137.xx.xx and I've been unable to view these sites or connect to a friends game server. I just then connect to NTL:Freedom a little while ago and found I could connect to the friends server and view the site mentioned above as well. I thought everything was fixed until I re-connected and found I was unable to view the site again.
A Friend sent me my previous IP address which turned out to be 213.104.xx.xx. I can only guess something is not right with the 217.137 subnet and this is becoming a new problem for me and I still have few months til activation of broadband.
Any planned fixes or are we to suffer until it's stumbled upon by many other users?
Thanks,
Daniel