Guys,
firstly, apologies for last night's tirade, I was ****ed off and it didn't help coming here to see people recommending using proxies yet again.
Secondly, from what I can tell tehre are a lot of problems in my area, Baz has posted another thread "help" and he's in the same postcode region as I am (SK8 3) so I'm guessing we must be close to each other.
There must be some way of getting the kit checked out that we're connecting through and I don't mean our STB's / SACM's. Mine works fine when I go via a proxy (will post the proxies I have for those who are having difficulties when I get home) but going via a proxy is useless for anything other than surfing the web.
Oh, forgot to mention that NTL ahd also managed to setup another direct debit from my account and I've been paying them twice each month for the past 5 months. When I called up regarding that they didn't know how it could have happened!!!
bah - rant over and apologies again to those I offended.
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oh and I called an 0845 number which isn't free, and i called from a mobile