Funny you should mention times between 6 and 11pm, the early traceroute i did was around 7pm. Obviously peak times.
As for spyware/malware/adware i assure you i'm clean, hehe. Brand new install of Win XP Pro SP2 Corporate Edition. No dodgy sites allowed
Heres a traceroute from just now...
Tracing route to bbc.co.uk [212.58.224.131]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 3 ms 1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 10 ms 12 ms 8 ms 10.156.64.1
3 12 ms 12 ms 9 ms pc-62-30-252-225-ro.blueyonder.co.uk [62.30.252.225]
4 20 ms 21 ms 23 ms pc-62-30-252-81-ro.blueyonder.co.uk [62.30.252.81]
5 20 ms 19 ms 19 ms pc-62-30-252-53-ro.blueyonder.co.uk [62.30.252.53]
6 20 ms 22 ms 20 ms pc-62-30-252-10-ro.blueyonder.co.uk [62.30.252.10]
7 19 ms 20 ms 17 ms 194.117.136.166
8 21 ms 22 ms 68 ms 194.117.136.173
9 148 ms 206 ms 203 ms 194.117.136.146
10 19 ms 19 ms 15 ms 194.117.148.171
11 18 ms 22 ms 16 ms 212.58.238.153
12 20 ms 19 ms 17 ms rdirwww-vip.thdo.bbc.co.uk [212.58.224.131]
Trace complete.
Yet still, my internet seems exceedingly slow, the traceroute to me shows no real hold ups, and i'm really pleased with it.
Time to go thread hunting for similar problems. Thanks mate.