What Ho BL,
Caught your post earlier, not being "in the field " as so many are let it rest.
I use VirginADSL, there is an unpublished cap at 1 GB in 24 hours. Only fell fell foul once when they shut me off at 1.1GB !
Speed and contention are good, been with then for nigh on two years now.
Hardware is Netgear DG834 (excellent) would have gone for the 'G' version if I had intended WiFi then, routing to Mac G4. Later added an iBook (from whence I type, whilst main machine does arcane things with numbers and downloading an obscure file) and an SMC/3COM base station came as part of the package. Someone did not understand that the limitations were his rather than the hard/software; gained an iBook 800Mhz with Airport and a base station and a bunch of bits for ?0„5300 !!
My bottom line, Virgin and Netgear are stable and kosher.
Edited because I forgot. WiFi has only been tested to 45 feet, small garden, at 7 out of 10 bars.