For the past 3 weeks or so, my ping has been significantly higher than it used to be during peak hours that range starting anytime after 6pm to 11pm. Loading videos on youtube even in 360p proves to be a challenge, and doing anything other than looking at text becomes a frustrating experience.
I have tried to see if the ping was just related to one computer, or the router. However, I have tried different computers and plugging directly into the modem and there is no difference. I'm not running any P2P software, or downloading anything. One of the computers I tested on is essentially a bare copy of windows that hasn't been used for anything, and it has high ping as well.
Here's a trace route to google. Ping will often be fine periods of 3-10 minutes, with bursts of high latency. I believe I also experience packet loss (had an issue with it before a year or so back) because of disconnections while gaming online. If the trace route isn't enough to solve the issue, I can start logging on ping plotter.
Tracing route to google.com [74.125.227.227]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.1.1 [192.168.1.1]
2 8 ms 7 ms 9 ms 10.30.16.1 [10.30.16.1]
3 9 ms 8 ms 9 ms 173-219-251-210-link.sta.suddenlink.net [173.219
.251.210]
4 17 ms 17 ms 16 ms 173-219-251-162-link.sta.suddenlink.net [173.219
.251.162]
5 17 ms 16 ms 18 ms eqixsj-google-gige.google.com [206.223.116.21]
6 94 ms 83 ms 71 ms 216.239.49.168
7 19 ms 18 ms 20 ms 209.85.250.60
8 69 ms 30 ms 26 ms 64.233.174.204
9 165 ms 156 ms 134 ms 64.233.174.141
10 61 ms 60 ms 61 ms 72.14.237.214
11 124 ms 153 ms * 209.85.254.111
12 62 ms 61 ms 62 ms dfw06s38-in-f3.1e100.net [74.125.227.227]
Trace complete.
