I am with normal business broadband 8Mb and it started playing up, i did a tracert to opendns dns server and it was getting loads of packet loss at eu.bt.net gateway, i reboooted router, different gateway address and am now ok again.
Cornwall BTW.

In reply to a post by maniac886:

Hi All,

Has anyone else noticed a drop in speed since approximately 3pm this afternoon? Latency has taken a hit and web browsing is painfully slow. I have a friend in the North East who is on Infinity and is also having problems.

Anyone else having problems this evening?

My connection has slowed down significantly again.

Ping has started�

PING bbc.co.uk (212.58.241.131): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 212.58.241.131: icmp_seq=0 ttl=242 time=264.332 ms
64 bytes from 212.58.241.131: icmp_seq=1 ttl=242 time=301.432 ms
64 bytes from 212.58.241.131: icmp_seq=2 ttl=242 time=277.763 ms
64 bytes from 212.58.241.131: icmp_seq=3 ttl=242 time=155.081 ms
64 bytes from 212.58.241.131: icmp_seq=4 ttl=242 time=168.610 ms
64 bytes from 212.58.241.131: icmp_seq=5 ttl=242 time=154.331 ms
64 bytes from 212.58.241.131: icmp_seq=6 ttl=242 time=148.937 ms
Request timeout for icmp_seq 7
64 bytes from 212.58.241.131: icmp_seq=8 ttl=242 time=160.763 ms
64 bytes from 212.58.241.131: icmp_seq=9 ttl=242 time=160.616 ms

--- bbc.co.uk ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 9 packets received, 10.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 148.937/199.096/301.432/58.929 ms

Edited by maniac886 (Sun 19-Feb-12 21:47:11)

All fine here (Crewe, Cheshire):

PING bbc.co.uk (212.58.241.131): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 212.58.241.131: icmp_seq=0 ttl=241 time=12.287 ms
64 bytes from 212.58.241.131: icmp_seq=1 ttl=241 time=12.203 ms
64 bytes from 212.58.241.131: icmp_seq=2 ttl=241 time=12.134 ms
64 bytes from 212.58.241.131: icmp_seq=3 ttl=241 time=12.407 ms

--- bbc.co.uk ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 12.134/12.258/12.407/0.102 ms

No problems here either