Your connection to the network is much improved
. The DSL line is pinging normally to the network when idle (with a spike here and there which could be from anything at the moment), however the varied speeds and latency at almost idle speeds looks very much like a Juniper ERX being mixed in with a Lucent switch creating an incompatibility, a problem we see a lot at the Verizon DSL forums. Without an RDNS showing for the edge router in your line quality test, it's hard to tell what is the issue. The varied latency the trace route is showing may or may not be normal however, but Gig-E links can run at 10ms latency when fully loaded so that makes it more difficult to troubleshoot without seeing the data from the links themselves.
Can you try running this test below from Ethernet and post up the results you get from it? It's UDP-based so if it is an issue with a Juniper ERX and a Lucent switch, this test will bypass it. If it shows poor results, a link is definitely congested past the DSLAM and edge router (but from edge router to backbone router may be congested). Java is needed.
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