Thanks for the feedback everyone
Sportsgaming - I'm on goofy, minty and milky - they're all slow at the moment although goofy is a bit faster today` I've also checked out your site and for me in this part of the world it's really slow to load - same as fastmetal and my other sites, it must be a location thing related solely to cirtex.

Grynmoors - great advice.
Ping was consistently around a quarter of a second over the long term. Incidentally almost neck and neck with youtube.

It must be server loadings which are causing my problem otherwise it should be rocking. Even though it's faster today I'm still sitting at over a minute to download that 15 second file. Your responses are 4 times faster than the ones I can get here. (who'd live miles from the backbone by choice?)

I think that I'll look seriously at a VPS