Just a small report on astraweb.
I don't see any difference in the service. I mean it not worse than NTL.
It has got some 2500 more groups. I use only 2 connection at time and they fill promised 600k completely. No broken parts. Downloaded staff 1 and 2 weeks old. No problem at all.
If NTL repairs their server I will return to it because it is for free

Otherwise I stay with astraweb and I don't know why some people say that astraweb is bad.