[Chrysalis]

well the cogent drops are out of ntl's control of course that is cogent themselves, here is an example of some poor cogent routing however, the destination is .uk.

1 25 ms 74 ms 47 ms UBR [10.8.143.254]
2 36 ms 20 ms 21 ms leic-t2cam1-a-ge914.inet.ntl.com [82.3.35.149]
3 41 ms 83 ms 22 ms leic-t2core-a-ge-220-0.inet.ntl.com [82.3.33.10]
4 25 ms 10 ms 90 ms lee-bb-a-so-220-0.inet.ntl.com [62.253.188.110]
5 40 ms 91 ms 44 ms nth-bb-b-so-000-0.inet.ntl.com [62.253.185.101]
6 17 ms 22 ms 14 ms nth-bb-a-ae0-0.inet.ntl.com [62.253.185.117]
7 45 ms 32 ms 97 ms fran-ic-1-as0-0.inet.ntl.com [213.105.174.86]
8 68 ms 30 ms 43 ms po1-0.core01.fra03.atlas.cogentco.com [80.81.192.63]
9 45 ms 42 ms 38 ms p3-0.core01.ams03.atlas.cogentco.com [130.117.0.145]
10 70 ms 32 ms 32 ms p5-0.core01.lon02.atlas.cogentco.com [130.117.1.225]
11 166 ms 68 ms 50 ms oh-tele.demarc.cogentco.com [130.117.241.194]
12 35 ms 45 ms 73 ms web2.hostingfreak.net [195.242.215.140]

again I believe this may not be ntl's fault since cogent london does appear to be congested I know nildram are also avoiding cogent london but they only route through france and not germany.

(yes my pings do suck but thats another topic)