On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Alan James wrote: > On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 09:59:02AM +0000, Martin Price wrote: > > > > Thanks for the suggestions, I'll try them tonight when I get home (I too > > am an NTL sufferer - I feel your pain). > > Then its ntls fault. must be. > > look here for the alternate proxies > http://homepage.ntlworld.com/robin.d.h.walker/cmtips.html#sidestep > > and on one of their own servers too, so it'll maybe work :-) > > Alan. >
Manually setiing a proxy seems to have done the trick, so thanks v much Alan and Vineet for helpful suggestions. Still dont know what is actually wrong, but at least I can now access the internet to try and figure it out at leisure! Thanks again, Martin Price