No changes to my system and down goes the speed again!

Post a trace route to www.thinkbroadband.com so that we can see where the high latency is coming from

Hope this helps. I do appreciate the help.

Ist Run:

Last login: Sat Mar 24 06:20:09 on console
Rays-MacBook-Air:~ ray$ traceroute www.thinkbroadband.com
traceroute: Warning: www.thinkbroadband.com has multiple addresses; using 104.25.243.35
traceroute to www.thinkbroadband.com.cdn.cloudflare.net (104.25.243.35), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
1 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 1.397 ms 1.109 ms 1.037 ms
2 * * *
3 be438.pr2.enlba.isp.sky.com (89.200.131.105) 141.777 ms 174.867 ms 181.207 ms
4 027ff189.bb.sky.com (2.127.241.137) 132.756 ms 138.698 ms 160.480 ms
5 104.25.243.35 (104.25.243.35) 163.062 ms 162.695 ms 159.369 ms
Rays-MacBook-Air:~ ray$

2nd Run:

Last login: Sat Mar 24 14:26:11 on ttys000
Rays-MacBook-Air:~ ray$ traceroute www.thinkbroadband.com
traceroute: Warning: www.thinkbroadband.com has multiple addresses; using 104.25.243.35
traceroute to www.thinkbroadband.com.cdn.cloudflare.net (104.25.243.35), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
1 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 2.283 ms 1.027 ms 1.010 ms
2 * * *
3 be438.pr2.enlba.isp.sky.com (89.200.131.105) 131.961 ms 176.604 ms 164.895 ms
4 027ff189.bb.sky.com (2.127.241.137) 140.483 ms 118.128 ms 130.838 ms
5 104.25.243.35 (104.25.243.35) 130.125 ms 140.314 ms 141.278 ms
Rays-MacBook-Air:~ ray$

And you are sure that nothing was downloading and uploading at that time?

The high latency if that remains the same across a 24 hour period would suggest a problem with the ADSL2+ line, if the latency is better in the 2am to 9am period it suggests that congestion is the issue.

An ADSL2+ issue might continue to be the same if you move ISP. Time to find a friend on the same exchange and with Sky to see if they have identical issues - if they do then its Sky and moving is a safe bet.

Thank you so much for your time. A couple of sky users in the street have said there speed is slow. I will record my speed again then do a test on there connection straight away. Thanks again. I will let you know how it goes. Regards....

It seams like I am doing well.

The 2 houses opposite are on Sky and are on the same cabinet are getting1.9Mbps downstream. So it looks safe to try Plusnet I think!

At least I will get a static IP Address.