Ive had our line checked by Telkom all syncs correctly as it should - router stats and diagnostics says the same on our side - But Afrihost network status for Western Cape says all is good?
Yep - also in the Cape and because I most of my work is done remotely, I am rather sensitive to connectivity issues.
I have noticed over the last few weeks that the connectivity has been all over the place. Definate periods of next to no connectivity (in some cases international sites just refuse to load) - pings go through the roof (local pings up to 4seconds) - and then give it a few minutes and .. poof, it's all better. This is during the day - so not like all the kids are hammering the local exchange with downloads either.
Currently (according to mybroadband speedtest), I have a 42ms ping, a 0.02Mbps download and 0.3mbps upload). A few minutes ago - it was around 3 seconds ping and 2 meg down.
Trying to use Skype (locally!) - we are getting a good 1 to 3 second delay on calls. Yet, give it a few minutes and it comes right, then just goes to toast later. It is intermittent which is the annoying part. When you have to go stand outside, to hop onto your neighbour's wifi in the middle of a conference call - you start to get a little grump.

(I can't see it being Telkom cause as our lines run through the same DSLAM and exchange - just different ISPs).
p.s. just re-tested the speedtests - and it got a good 4.5mbps download and then 0.01mbps download (sigh)
LOL - so it's fine now ... for now.
Ping 48ms
Download 4.67Mbps
Upload 0.51Mbps