Appalling speeds to Ebay and a few others

[nickwilliams]

The day BT sent me a mail saying my exchange had been upgraded to 21cn, I've had really bad probs with ebay in particular, upgrade pob nothing to do with it, just a coincidence...maybe. Tried another modem, 2 different pc's and a mates laptop. No weird firewalls or anything running, no spyware or anything like that. Done all the MTU things you can think of. I know ebay is alot slower these days and more at certain times but this is ridiculous, snipe bidding? I'd need to click the auction link 5 mins b4 the auction ends to load the page! Could I have an IP address on a blacklist or something? Totally out of ideas now. Here's a couple ping results:

Google:

C:\Users\Admin>ping -a www.google.com
Pinging google.navigation.opendns.com [208.69.34.231] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 208.69.34.231: bytes=32 time=12ms TTL=55
Reply from 208.69.34.231: bytes=32 time=11ms TTL=55
Reply from 208.69.34.231: bytes=32 time=11ms TTL=55
Reply from 208.69.34.231: bytes=32 time=12ms TTL=55

Ping statistics for 208.69.34.231:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 11ms, Maximum = 12ms, Average = 11ms

Ebay:

C:\Users\Admin>ping -a www.ebay.co.uk

Pinging hp-intl-uk.ebay.com [66.135.217.241] with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.

Ping statistics for 66.135.217.241:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),

Synched at 12400, great speeds everywhere else, Google is fine as shown.

I use ebay alot and this is driving me mad! :s