this morning it all went like a rocket with out any delays.
Maybe there is something in my suspicion that it was down to the service rather than W7 etc?
You can get some very strange performance effects from electrical interference of an "intermediate" level but not high enough to actually cause a broadband disconnection.
What sort of router do you have and are you able to extract any meaningful statistics from it?
I was running for a while on my Netgear DGN1000, but switched back recently to my Billion 7300n. Things were the same with both.
I "rebooted" from hibernate a short while ago and the problem was back. It took ages to get the moneyam.com front page to load, and
then for the page I wanted after logging in to come up.
I did a tracert (below) at the same time
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