re the OP, Given that this only strikes during peak hours, I’ve decided this is my ISP rather than a persistent game issue. Trace route to google and win mrt also shows spikes along virgin media hops. It’ll be 3 weeks until I have a new ISP sorted 🙁
I may be out of action for a few days 🙁 during grand bazaar tonight I lost all net access, so phoned virgin and they’re sending an engineer out on saturday. They say it may come back on but may be still drop. Worst case scenario i’ll have a new isp in two weeks.