[TimBrad]

i think i am also in the same boat, i got NTL 10MB about 11 days ago, all was perfect, and i was amazed, ever since christmas i've had sites not loading at all, streaming videos not loading, my ping to uk gaming servers is still also quite high and most dl's this year (2k6) have bordered on 10-50kb/sec, microsoft.com dl's are hitting about 850 kb/sec whereas before christmas (I ran the .net 23mb download as a test) it would take 18 seconds for 23mb at approx ~1250KB/sec

Running a DL test on that very file now..not too bad, 26.2 seconds, approx 1100kb/s average. But i can't dl everything from microsoft, all other dl sites, filefront, fileplanet etc.. are running slower than P2P on 1mb.

Speed test results:

1st 512K took 9266 ms = 55.3 KB/sec, approx 456 Kbps, 0.45 Mbps
2nd 512K took 8297 ms = 61.7 KB/sec, approx 508 Kbps, 0.5 Mbps
3rd 512K took 9078 ms = 56.4 KB/sec, approx 465 Kbps, 0.45 Mbps
4th 512K took 10031 ms = 51 KB/sec, approx 420 Kbps, 0.41 Mbps

Overall Average Speed = approx 462 Kbps, 0.45 Mbps