Here in Ireland, ntl has decided to offer their customers up to 6mbps, however, during the course of this network upgrade, it seems that ntl management has hired a bunch of monkeys, handed them some spanners, and left them to rip on the network and it's servers.. it's only starting to stabilise now, 5 weeks after the initial switch to 6mbps.

Thumbs up to ntl monkeys.. sorry i mean engineering geniuses.

now I can setup shorewall without ripping my hair out.