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Are you using a UDP traceroute or TCP? If TCP, what port are you using?

Sorry, I meant ICMP not UDP. Using ICMP is your first problem. Routers know it's useless data and often shove it down to lowest priority. That won't necessarily give you an accurate reading. Using a TCP traceroute on the same port that the game uses will give more accurate results. Whether that makes a difference in this case I don't know. Actually finding a Windows traceroute that does TCP is another matter.

In any case if I'm reading the traceroute correctly (and it's accurate) the problem is between the local location where your connection hits the DSLAM/Remote Terminal/whatever and then heads out toward the net. My guess would be that your local point is oversold. Only thing I can think to do is complain.

reply to dmwagner
While it doesn't mean much and, FWIW, here's my UDP-based traceroute:

$ traceroute 66.135.52.116
traceroute to 66.135.52.116 (66.135.52.116), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets
 1  hlrn-dsl-gw51-243.hlrn.qwest.net (207.225.112.243)  30.963 ms  31.102 ms  30.223 ms
 2  hlrn-agw1.inet.qwest.net (71.217.189.145)  29.813 ms  30.358 ms  31.95 ms
 3  dvr-core-02.inet.qwest.net (67.14.24.29)  31.11 ms  30.928 ms  31.340 ms
 4  dvr-brdr-01.inet.qwest.net (205.171.10.10)  111.56 ms  46.249 ms  219.822 ms
 5  63.146.26.138 (63.146.26.138)  30.923 ms  31.343 ms  31.784 ms
 6  vlan51.ebr1.Denver1.Level3.net (4.69.147.94)  31.777 ms  31.136 ms  31.982 ms
 7  ae-2-2.ebr2.Dallas1.Level3.net (4.69.132.106)  49.510 ms  49.656 ms  49.551 ms
 8  ae-62-62.csw1.Dallas1.Level3.net (4.69.151.129)  49.121 ms ae-92-92.csw4.Dallas1.Level3.net (4.69.151.165)  49.705 ms ae-82-82.csw3.Dallas1.Level3.net (4.69.151.153)  51.36 ms
 9  ae-1-60.edge9.Dallas1.Level3.net (4.69.145.16)  49.359 ms ae-4-90.edge9.Dallas1.Level3.net (4.69.145.208)  49.653 ms ae-1-60.edge9.Dallas1.Level3.net (4.69.145.16)  49.232 ms
10  PEER-1-NETW.edge9.Dallas1.Level3.net (4.59.118.6)  48.57 ms  49.724 ms  50.769 ms
11  10ge-ten1-3.sat-8500v-cor-2.peer1.net (216.187.124.178)  56.897 ms  57.478 ms  57.187 ms
12  216.187.124.110 (216.187.124.110)  56.129 ms  57.206 ms  57.645 ms
13  66.135.52.116 (66.135.52.116)  59.163 ms  57.962 ms  57.9 ms
 

reply to dmwagner
I am so sick of this lousy peformance. Tonight, I can't even break 1MB/s download.

Modem is trained in perfect.

reply to dmwagner
Wow, Qwest fixed me up. Got on the online chat... about an hour later I was good to go.