[IanUK]

For me (and it appears many others) my speeds to many US servers (including my own) drop to way below 3 meg after about 3-4pm.

My server company have carried out tests and insist it is NTL and not them.
This seems to be correct and other isp's customers have no problems getting 8 meg from my server at any time of day.

I put up a test file which seemed to point to proxies yet again being the problem, NTL just ignore it though - if its proxies they are not interested, and just give you another one, which works for a day or so and then has the same problem, we now have had an NTL employee tell someone that they know his/her area is overloaded but they have no plans to fix it.

Any lawyers here - maybe a big old fashioned lawsuit is the only way to make the morons who are laughably in 'control' of network management at NTL listen, but thats too much hassle and I guess they know that, best if we all start leaving - which I guess is also going to happen en mass soon if the network isn't improved to at least a basic standard.

I'm quite frankly astonished that a company can say 'we will take your money and sell you a 10mb service but we know we cannot supply it - and have no plans to supply it anytime soon'

NTL need to get a clue about basic network management, surely its the first thing you do - make sure that your infrastructure can take any speed increases, not just internally but externally too.

Obviously not at NTL - where morons rule the networking waves !