FTTC -- Speeds on Saturday morning and other times

[#1]

Hi
up till now my fttc has been no problem, stable and good speeds, however I've noticed on occasions web pages have been very slow to load, and uploads under performing. Speeds (tested from www.speedtest.net) have been under 2Mb/s .....
                                                        down                      up
2/5/2011 10:00 AM GMT 0.84 Mb/s 4.94 Mb/s 36 ms Manchester ~ 150 mi
2/5/2011 9:59 AM GMT 0.68 Mb/s 4.31 Mb/s 51 ms Aberdeen ~ 400 mi
2/5/2011 9:59 AM GMT 2.09 Mb/s 7.67 Mb/s 30 ms London  < 50 mi
2/4/2011 11:24 PM GMT 30.16 Mb/s 6.19 Mb/s 38 ms Manchester ~ 150 mi
1/31/2011 11:06 PM GMT 29.62 Mb/s 5.35 Mb/s 54 ms Aberdeen ~ 400 mi
1/31/2011 11:05 PM GMT 30.42 Mb/s 5.79 Mb/s 38 ms Manchester ~ 150 mi
1/7/2011 6:32 PM GMT 30.04 Mb/s 7.93 Mb/s 29 ms London  < 50 mi
1/7/2011 6:30 PM GMT 1.39 Mb/s 1.65 Mb/s 62 ms London  < 50 mi
12/20/2010 5:20 PM GMT 30.64 Mb/s 3.39 Mb/s 53 ms London       < 50 mi
12/20/2010 5:19 PM GMT 20.24 Mb/s 3.90 Mb/s 63 ms London  < 50 mi
12/19/2010 1:48 PM GMT 7.43 Mb/s 5.99 Mb/s 39 ms London  < 50 mi
12/14/2010 5:00 PM GMT 31.46 Mb/s 6.98 Mb/s 32 ms Manchester ~ 150 mi
when installed the BT engineer test gear showed line as near 38Mb/s down and near to 10Mb/s up.
Is this a local problem or other?
Alan
User name "apogee"

[#2]

Hi Alan - I had an identical issue during the same period (friday night to Saturday morning) which was resolved when I rebooted the Outreach box. Perhaps BT did something overnight on Friday.
Cheers.

[#3]

thanks passer
i've done a reboot, but my speeds had recovered already, it maybe some sort of congestion problem.
Alan