Ok if you check my profile on here and digitalspy you'll find that I've had many problems with NTL, regarding packet loss and TV issues.
Not really a surprise but the packet loss has now returned within the last fortnight.
The first tracert to yahoo.com:
Tracing route to
www.yahoo.akadns.net [68.142.226.37]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 13 ms 6 ms 5 ms 10.157.103.254
2 7 ms 5 ms 8 ms cdif-t2cam1-b-v112.inet.ntl.com [62.254.254.181]
3 8 ms 7 ms 7 ms cdif-t2core-b-ge-wan62.inet.ntl.com [62.254.253.
169]
4 9 ms 11 ms 43 ms bre-bb-b-so-300-0.inet.ntl.com [213.105.172.49]
5 27 ms 10 ms 13 ms bre-bb-a-ae0-0.inet.ntl.com [213.105.172.86]
6 19 ms 12 ms 11 ms redb-ic-1-so-010-0.inet.ntl.com [62.253.188.106]
7 852 ms 170 ms 85 ms 83.245.9.226
8 84 ms 83 ms 97 ms vlan241-msr1.re1.yahoo.com [216.115.96.171]
9 84 ms 86 ms 86 ms t-3-1.bas1.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.33.91]
10 85 ms 84 ms 85 ms p6.
www.re2.yahoo.com [68.142.226.37]
Trace complete.
The second tracert to yahoo.com literally right after the first:
Tracing route to
www.yahoo.akadns.net [68.142.226.50]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 7 ms 8 ms 7 ms 10.157.103.254
2 7 ms 7 ms 9 ms cdif-t2cam1-b-v112.inet.ntl.com [62.254.254.181]
3 8 ms 8 ms 7 ms cdif-t2core-b-ge-wan62.inet.ntl.com [62.254.253.
169]
4 10 ms 9 ms 10 ms bre-bb-b-so-300-0.inet.ntl.com [213.105.172.49]
5 11 ms 11 ms 11 ms bre-bb-a-ae0-0.inet.ntl.com [213.105.172.86]
6 18 ms 11 ms 11 ms redb-ic-1-so-010-0.inet.ntl.com [62.253.188.106]
7 85 ms 84 ms 83 ms 83.245.9.226
8 85 ms 87 ms 89 ms vlan261-msr2.re1.yahoo.com [216.115.96.175]
9 86 ms 85 ms 83 ms t-3-1.bas1.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.33.91]
10 86 ms 84 ms 85 ms p19.
www.re2.yahoo.com [68.142.226.50]
Trace complete.
Notice the 7th hop, on the first I have bad pings, on the second they're average. Pinging the same server within a minute of eachother brings totally different results. This is what I find when gaming, I will have a good ping of between 10-40ms, then it shoots up to 900 and then drops back down again.
I keep my pc to a minimum, I virus scan regularly, I am perfectly sure that this is not pc related to spyware or any other software issues. My PC is clean.