thanks!

ejde and simonb are great! And gave the the bestest brithday pressies ever (other than the ruby earrings...) of a bee hive and mounds of choclate!!! (For third owrld farmers on my behlf). All that sugar and I wont even gain an ounce! How cool is that?!!!

NTL SUCKS!!!!!

I recently upgrade my connection from 512 to 2gb (as I was paying the same amount) - but now my connection is intermittent, with every other page download timing out (this is the third time I’ve tried to write this...) and every two out of three time I try to send mail I get no ntl server messages.

So, I call ntl to ask if I can go back to my trusty 512… I get sent to a call centre in India…

Where the guy asks if I use P2P – which I haven’t for the last three months or so. He then sends me to a website to test my connection speed – which times out twice, then reads an AVERAGE of 52kb (I had one 80kb spike, but mostly it was 30kb) then the page crashes.

He then says my connection is fine. Despite the fact that it is intermittent. He tells me that the fault is all on my side as I am obviously running a P2P, have a virused hard drive and my wireless is hacked.

I patiently explained that I am NOT running a P2P, run both virus guards and adware removers regularly, and my wireless is not only encrypted, but I also have both hardware and software firewalls.

He gets aggressive and goes through his obviously written list and I hang up. Then go and send a complaint to NTL.

Does not solve my sh*tty connection…

Anyone have any broadband suppliers they can recommend?