As I went on to explain in the thread, The pausing was caused when BT swapped to fast path.Except that you said BT blamed it on Sky's poor equipment, so you had the problem on Sky.
I had the line monitored remotely and a graph for upload and download produced. The consensus came down to packet loss and resending of data, understandable on a long line with fast path enabled.
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