I get intermittant speed issues via virgin also
it gets a wee bit annoying as most of the time it's really quick
and then becomes unusable for a while
at the moment i've lost contact with my
VPS Hosting,
and the trace stops at 87.127.231.90 [ge-5-2.the.uk.euroconnex.net]
i've reported it via live chat, and it's with the engineers now
i just hope it gets sorted quickly as the reason i moved to EUKhost
was downtime and performance issues with my old provider
**edit, back up now , so looks like it was a server issue this time