Well !
For the last year I have been in heaven with my Nildram 2mb connection. Everything works properly, The email ALLWAYS works 24x7 365 ! No dodgey proxy servers.
Now I am back at my parents house on NTL it takes 30+ secs to open a page up. Proxy fallover problems all the time and I would be better of ringing up the mail recipient and giving him the email in binary than relying on the NTL email servers...
Oh how I miss my Nildram
I would rather deep fry my own testicles than pay for an NTL connection.
Still - on the bright side / my not so techy parents are looking at changing to an ISP that actualy delivers what you pay for ---- Now theres a novel idea !