Just a quick update, after the 2 day period expired I called NTL who then said that what they meant was 2 'working' days. So that must mean today then! Anyway they further said that the problem is due to them putting me on a 3mb account and from that there is a 'lack of IP addresses' being assigned.
I heard this one earlier on in some thread and wonder if that can be true? It doesn't sound right to me, but hey!
I guess I just have to wait for an engineer to play with a little green box somewhere!
Dan.