Last night my connection dropped somewhere just after midnight, and today I've had problems where nothing will connect or will only connect very slowly for 5-10 minutes, then it works again, then problems again.
Some examples:
[Time is 20:57:48.88 on 15/05/2012]
D:\>tracert 8.8.8.8
Tracing route to google-public-dns-a.google.com [8.8.8.8]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms router [10.6.7.10]
2 10 ms * * telehouse-gw4-lo2.idnet.net [212.69.63.99]
3 11 ms * 11 ms 212.69.63.181
4 11 ms 11 ms 10 ms redbus-gw2-g0-1-331.idnet.net [212.69.63.5]
5 12 ms 11 ms 12 ms google1.lonap.net [193.203.5.136]
6 35 ms 11 ms 11 ms 209.85.255.76
7 * * 12 ms 209.85.253.196
8 * * * Request timed out.
9 21 ms * * 216.239.49.36
10 * 30 ms * 209.85.255.118
11 * 21 ms 20 ms google-public-dns-a.google.com [8.8.8.8]
Trace complete.
[Time is 20:59:17.55 on 15/05/2012]
D:\>tracert www.idnet.net
Tracing route to www.idnet.net [212.69.36.10]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms router [10.6.7.10]
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 * * * Request timed out.
4 * 11 ms * 212.69.63.9
5 11 ms 11 ms * redbus-gw1-fa0-0-301.idnet.net [212.69.63.209]
6 12 ms * 11 ms www.idnet.net [212.69.36.10]
Trace complete.
but then a few minutes later:
[Time is 21:05:35.12 on 15/05/2012]
D:\>tracert www.idnet.net
Tracing route to www.idnet.net [212.69.36.10]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms router [10.6.7.10]
2 11 ms 11 ms 10 ms telehouse-gw4-lo2.idnet.net [212.69.63.99]
3 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms 212.69.63.182
4 11 ms 11 ms 11 ms 212.69.63.9
5 11 ms 11 ms 11 ms redbus-gw1-fa0-0-301.idnet.net [212.69.63.209]
6 11 ms 12 ms 12 ms www.idnet.net [212.69.36.10]
Trace complete.
Anyone else having similar problems or is this a local thing? I'm just outside Swindon in Wiltshire. Haven't had consistent problems like this since christmas.
There was a fairly major BT problem last night that started at about 00:15, but it should be OK now. See this topic:
http://www.idnetters.co.uk/forums/index.php/topic,29046.msg684198.html#msg684198
Have you tried the usual powering the modem/router down for 20 minutes or so?