I'm glad I'm not the only one with this issue.

It started at roughly the same time as we had a new housemate move in so I was trying to find a way of seeing if he's just completely torrenting stuff 24/7 but the router itself doesn't seem to show particular heavy usage.

I'm in Exeter though - and all the students have just come back to Uni so maybe it is the local network being completely overloaded.

I'm also finding online gaming is suffering - can be fine for a bit, and then suddenly latency shoots up and makes it unplayable.

Luckily I've got an unlimited data tariff on my mobile and that connection works better than the VM one now.

I'm in Exeter as well.

Using a proxy to view one of the most use websites seems a bit mad... thankfully never seen the issue myself