Why have we drifted offtopic? I thought we were discussing NTL's News Server problems not plugging News Server Providers
Anyway, ringing the Service Status number has the message "There are no major service issues at this time" for broadband and checking the newsgroups today they seem to be back to normal, at least headers/bodies are downloading without stalling, slowdows or timeouts. How long this will last is anyone guess but the 'hiccups' seem to have passed.