In message , Gareth
writes:

On 15/11/2010 19:51, Adrian wrote:
was about as slow as a slug
with a broken leg trying to wade through treacle.

I just tried the same wikipedia.org page from two ISPs, one worked one
didn't. My fixed connection, Plus.net, failed but my mobile connection,
Three, worked fine.

Everything else I've tried today through plus.net seems ok so I don't
know why wikipedia is having problems.

Wikipedia is fine from here via PlusNet.
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent upon it, can
still ripen a bunch of grapes as it if had nothing else in the universe to do.
-Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer (1564-1642)