Gaming Issues.

Hi, I was wondering if anyone could help.
I recently bought, and had installed BT broadband, and for the first week, no issues whatso ever, such a blessing from the **bleep** we had with AOL, however, last night about 11pm, online gaming become almost unplayable, it lagged all over the place, and every twenty minutes or so, the connection would drop completely.
The general experience we have had, have reported no problems, surfing the net, is still as quick as day one, only online gaming. I tried it again this morning, and the same results, it lags something awful. I was just wondering, if anyone had any set up tips, or any solutions to our problem. this is a brand new thing, for the first week, it was smooth sailing, now, this, very annoying.
Any helpful tips would be most welcome.
Thanks for your time.
Download speed achieved during the test was - 1679 Kbps
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Is it just a particular game that you're having issues with, or gaming in general?
Is it worse at weekends than during the week (ie, does the lag get worse earlier)?
Are you using a PC or a console (there are tools you can use on the PC to help work out what's happening)?
I had a similar problem, sometime last year during peak hours my ping would go from ~200-300ms all the way up to ~1.6million ms (that's ~). It turns out that after my section of BT's network was upgraded to 21CN (we live out in the sticks, so it wasn't done until a year or two ago) the "more intelligent" 21CN hardware was incorrectly classifying the gaming traffic as encrypted bittorrent traffic & "managing" it into oblivion.
What I did (to prove it was BT's network, rather than my end or the server I was connecting to) was to get some ping/download speeds (using BT's test) during the evening, check to see if anyone else is having similar issues if it's related to a specific game and just wait/get more data until you get escalated. IIRC, I also used some packet capture software on my PC to show that the game traffic was encrypted & which port it was using.
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