Fred wrote:
On 8 Feb 2007 13:40:49 -0800, "alexander.keys1"
wrote:

Virgin Media have just taken over my broadband Internet service from
NTL, and it's not working very well.

I had NTL before Virgin took over (or did not take over). It was OK
then. It's total crap now. From the middle of last year it was a
nightmare. I'm in the process of moving to another ISP before the
baseball season starts.

Fred.

What are the symptoms? Proxy servers can make a big difference if you
don't have total loss of service.