Carefull with NTL Broadband - Skype relies heavily on uplink as well as downlink. We had 700K NTL which ran happily at over .5Meg on the down but often had < 100K on the up:-( We are now on 3Meg and Skype is quite happy at the > 200K up.

You can run Skype at lower speeds but you just have to remember to set it as being dialup speeds rather than broadband.

Good test of up and down speeds in the UK can be found at www.adslguide.org.uk

Cheers

DtG