Why is NTL Broadband (on the cheapest package) slower - way slower - than my old dial-up?
On my laptop, with a basic AOL dial-up connection, I could zip through Ebay, zip through Amazon, zip through my favourite websites... The only thing I couldn't do was play Quake III Arena online.
Now, with NTL Broadband, it's a waste of time trying to shop on Amazon. Pages time-out, and when they do load, it's often after about five minutes of waiting.
The NTL man who knocked on the door the other day (trying to flog us some other naff product), bellowed with laughter when we told him we had the £9.99 package. "That's the reason it's slow," he said. But surely, even the cheapest broadband package should be faster than my old dial-up connection?
