Been using NTL broadband - 600k - for over a year and had no problems. It may help being within 1 mile of NTLs South Manchester facility - 2m north egcc.
Cost £25 pm.
The pc does not get turned off so installed firewall software - BlackIce - excellent. It was amazing to see how many cretins try to get into your pc over a 24 hour period and this kept them all out.
After 3 months networked the house so now have 3 computers on the system - 2 running all day.
To make life easier bought a US Robotics router - with built in firewall - and spent 5 minutes to configure it. Easy.
Using a router with multiple pcs appears to the provider as 1 pc only.
Also use other software to stop spyware/ads etc but thats another story for a rainy day.
