Thanks for the reassurance, GTW - its just that I have had an ongoing issue with speeds with the ISP for some time (I'm convinced it is a BT issue but you probably know how difficult that is to resolve when you are not a 'customer'
) with drops to 160kb generally after the OpenReach cavalry have made one of their frequent vists to the road. Roll on the 21st century........................... I understand I am on 1950's cabling which runs BELOW the 'new' access chambers of BT and there are rumours that I have Rhodesian aluminium cables in the road too!