DSL connection gets slower than dial up at night

For the last week my DSL connection has been getting really slow in the late afternoon and evening. It is fine in the morning. Also in the evening I have started getting error messages such as Request Timeout, The connection was reset while the page was loading, and Can't find DNS server. Verizon has tried to blame my laptop, but the same thing happens with my two desktops and my wife's desktop. Verizon has also tried to blame my Belkin router, which I took out of the equation by hooking the DSL modem directly to my laptop. The modem is a Westell 6100G.
Could there be too much traffic through the CO in the afternoon and evening that is affecting my connection?
I have run the Verizon speed test with the following results:
Broadband Speed Test
Analysis information:
Checking for Middleboxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Done
SendBufferSize set to [261360]
running 10s outbound test (client to server) . . . . . 330.89Kb/s
running 10s inbound test (server to client) . . . . . . 779.59kb/s
------ Client System Details ------
OS data: Name = Windows 7, Architecture = x86, Version = 6.1
Java data: Vendor = Sun Microsystems Inc., Version = 1.6.0_31
------ Web100 Detailed Analysis ------
Client Receive Window detected at 135024 bytes.
Cable modem/DSL/T1 link found.
Link set to Full Duplex mode
No network congestion discovered.
Good network cable(s) found
Normal duplex operation found.
Web100 reports the Round trip time = 944.73 msec; the Packet size = 1392 Bytes; and
No packet loss - but packets arrived out-of-order 0.24% of the time
This connection is receiver limited 37.82% of the time.
Increasing the the client's receive buffer (131.0 KB) will improve performance
This connection is sender limited 52.94% of the time.
This connection is network limited 9.25% of the time.
Web100 reports TCP negotiated the optional Performance Settings to:
RFC 2018 Selective Acknowledgment: ON
RFC 896 Nagle Algorithm: ON
RFC 3168 Explicit Congestion Notification: OFF
RFC 1323 Time Stamping: OFF
RFC 1323 Window Scaling: ON
Information: Network Middlebox is modifying MSS variable
Server IP addresses are preserved End-to-End
Information: Network Address Translation (NAT) box is modifying the Client's IP address
Server says [71.119.134.43] but Client says [192.168.2.2]
Here are my Transceiver stats:
Transceiver Statistics
Transceiver Revision
3.3.6.10.0.1
Vendor ID Code
4D54
Line Mode
ADSL_2plus
Data Path
INTERLEAVED
Transceiver Information
Down Stream Path
Up Stream Path
DSL Speed (Kbits/Sec)
928
287
Margin (dB)
25.4
27.2
Line Attenuation (dB)
36.5
15.2
Transmit Power (dBm)
17.8
12.0
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NDT Test is not showing packet loss yet the line sounds like it's behaving like there is a ton of loss occurring. I'll see if I can get someone. It's hard to say how Verizon has things set up but if 1Mbps is the top speed in your area and the sync rate was set that low deliberately rather than by some sort of provisioning accident, I wonder if your DSLAM is fed by bonded T1 lines. Not too uncommon to find that still to this day where DSLAMs are not fed by Fiber especially in very rural areas.
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