Really slow speeds

[ashh]

Hi,
I keep getting really slow speeds, often at the start of every month (~3rd of every month). They are slower than 56k days... Yet nothing changes with my hardware/settings etc, i have no skybox, nothing that auto updates via phone line every month etc. And now it is happening tonight. It normally sorts its self out after a couple of days though.
Any idea what it is? I haven't tried that test socket or anything, mainly as it seems (apart from today...) to be every month. the other ~27 days of the month its fine. It has taken forever to upload these (!) but here are some screenshots of various things that may help...

http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/2342/clipboard06pv4.th.png (http://img155.imageshack.us/my.php?image=clipboard06pv4.png)

http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/2299/clipboard04ay3.th.png (http://img148.imageshack.us/my.php?image=clipboard04ay3.png)

http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/3280/clipboard08fj6.th.png (http://img411.imageshack.us/my.php?image=clipboard08fj6.png)

http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/3676/clipboard10hl5.th.png (http://img208.imageshack.us/my.php?image=clipboard10hl5.png)

It makes using the web pretty much impossible. Whats a bit strange though is that it will often half load a page, and even refreshing a few times it will often stop loading anything past the same point (ie... loads the same amount).

Ping times are also quite normal still (i *think*... numbers seem normal anyway). ping of adsl24.co.uk has an average response of 58ms (with > 1000 tries), and google.co.uk had a similar (slightly higher, i think (70-80ms)) time.

thanks

[snoods]

I actually experienced what you described, early last night. Pages loaded half way and refreshing the browser just did nothing, the pages were stuck.

I quickly disconnected, and reconnected and BANG full speed again. That was on central 1, cured when I popped onto a different central.

Ah the joys of the Internet. :D

[James]

Line stats at present look OK but something is simply causing noise on the line at certain times making it lose connection and reconnect a lot lower. This is what causes the spikes to your Max reports.

Have you tried leaving the router in the test socket for a good week to see what it stabilises at.