Thanks guys.
I use
Maxnet as my ISP and they're working with me to sort this out.
I have 3 sites I'm having problems with
- Alex Shay - that I can't get to at all
- Sites I own that run like dogs but everyone else tells me they're normal, certainly the spam bots have a blast given the stats from Akismet and Bad Behaviour
- DigitalPoint's forum - some days it's like lightening, some days it's a slug. I'm a mod so it means some days I just have to leave it to the others and ignore the "reports" sent by members
So, I've downloaded
winMTR that does repeated traceroutes to get averages for a site and the results have been really interesting. Take a look at these
1,
2,
3
I can see that when I go to dp I hit a wall at at-0-0-1-300.jb1.wils.telstraclear.net
How on earth do I convince them, though, that their blasted node is a dog, needs rebooting or whatever?