Then there is definitely something wrong with your router - which could be the cause of all your issues. Is there no way for you to get another router somehow?
If it was the routher, the connection would suck permanently, right?
And I am not going to buy a router just to check, and I do not know anyone with the same model router which I could borrow to test.
Firstly, Could you please type this into cmd.
ping 105.236.11.193 -t
Let it run for +-5 minutes and post a summary here.
Secondly - could you post a screenshot of your routers status page please
Thirdly - regarding the line speeds. Telkom dont offer 6MB sync's so you have to pay for a 10meg line. This means that you have more line capacity than your account speed - which is a good thing
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Pinging 105.236.11.193 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 105.236.11.193: bytes=32 time=15ms TTL=254
Reply from 105.236.11.193: bytes=32 time=12ms TTL=254
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Ping statistics for 105.236.11.193:
Packets: Sent = 149, Received = 139, Lost = 10 (6% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 11ms, Maximum = 30ms, Average = 14ms
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Like I have told Afrihost many times before, when we first got ADSL a year ago, we had a perfectly stable 10Mb line and never had issues with anything like Youtube buffering, dropping connections, intermittent service, etc. Since March 2013, it has slowly degraded into the crap we sit with today. In short, it used to be a stable 10Mb line, now it is all over the place.