no I think it is your connection. My virgin line works ok. If you ring tech
helpline they will run a test there and then.
Hope you get it sorted.
Brian


"Tim W" wrote in message
m...
text.news.virginmedia.com has slowed to the point that downloading 300
headers takes about 5mins. A 99kb binary on virginmedia.com takes about 90
secs. It has been like this for a few weeks. Is it just me?

Tim W