Dropdown is not consistent in Selenium Webdriver 3

Question

I just updated my webdriver from NUGet this morning and I am having issues with the dropdown. Below is my code:

public static void SelectDDL(this IWebElement element, string value)
{
    element.Click();
    element.SendKeys(value);
    element.SendKeys(Keys.Enter);
}

The method is below:

public void AddPositionTitle(string value)
{
    positionBasket.ElementDisplayed();
    Thread.Sleep(1000);
    ddlSearchTitle.SelectDDL(value);
    Driver.LinkToClickIsVisible(value);
 }

This was working until I have upgraded to Selenium 3 this morning. I ran this in chrome.

What happened was it typed slow and execution was so inconsistent. I am not sure if my connection can be a culprit of this. I tried not to use Thread.Sleep as well, but the Explicit Waits won't work.