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Also by the way that hop you said that apparently belonged to ntl doesn't it's just using an IP from an ntl range, it actually is a Cogent box 
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LOL, well I was only quoting you earlier, I don't have inside knowledge like you
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People aren't going to be getting 10Mbit or anywhere close to it a lot of the time from a lot of sites, going to be amusing people complaining like crazy about it though 
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True enough, but with the current proxy situation one day they will get 300k the next 20k, its this inconsistency and the fact that it often takes 3 or 4 clicks on the same link to get anywhere that is so annoying.
Froopter.com gives me 374k currently through Poplar, yesterday it gave me about 25k through Poplar and about 370k thru Baguley, this happens almost every day recently, and the same with my other server on a totally different network (Telia) - presumably because the proxies take different routes.
I never had this inconsistency when I used Freeserve, (when they had proxies) nor do I get it now with AOL proxies on their service, every day its roughly the same (Good).
I'm not naive enough to think that NTL will get rid of the proxies, all I would like is for them to work consistently (at good speeds !), so that I don't have to waste time changing to get decent speeds on different sites all the time.
The NTL network seems to be pretty good here, as I've said before - non proxies connections are extremely good, gaming is great, but these proxies are pretty awful at present.
Yesterday for example on 3dgamers.com(Savvis network)
Default Poplar gave me about 100k a sec
Baguley gave about 370k a sec
....and this is by no means unusual.
I think I've made my point, and someone from NTL is listening at last (maybe) so I'll shut up now until I have some news or updates to pass on.