Are you talking about NTL and your computer, or do you have the NTL cable TV system that gives you email and internet via your TV screen? I have the latter, which gives access to some but not all internet facilities. It's not too bad with Mudcat, but you couldnt access long threads: though this has now been sorted for me by the clever little elves at Mudcat headquarters who enable me to break threads down into the bite-sized chunks that NTL can cope with.