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Originally Posted by meanstreakuk

I'm not sure it's a routing issue though as, like I said, the connection is absolutely fine most of the time. Every tracert I try looks OK, as it doesn't exhibit the 'spike' while I'm tracert'ing!

It only spikes every 30-40 seconds which is why only an extended ping catches it.

It will look something like:

15ms
14ms
15ms
15ms
15ms
13ms
14ms
1450ms <--- The spike
15ms
14ms
15ms
15ms
15ms
13ms
14ms

As you can imagine, online gaming (and it happens in every game I play, so it's not a gaming server issue - even happens when I connect direct IP to my mate who is on 1mb ADSL in the next village on)

I just started getting something like that!

Playing BF2 I even upgraded from 1M to 2M to see if it helped and I’ll be going back down as it made no difference.

Anyway the game sits nice as you like at 23ms etc than goes to 140ms and even 200ms then go back to normal. Strange one but very noticeable.