lets hope problem fixed now, I found the following information on the news-page of the billing section (I did not see this yesterday):
April 10, from 23:00 maintenance. Replacement of server hardware. SkyDE, UPC, Slylink, SkyUK and RedLight will be unavailable.
Even if this problem was not server related I switched to serv5 yesterday
obviously its the same provider as it is for serv3 *g*
ping time to new server increased by ~10ms (around 25ms now)
but CW respose time looks better for Sky-UK package, no reply >200ms yet
for Sky-DE repsonse time seems to be the same as on serv3 (but this was never critical - if SkyDE works it works fine or not at all)