It is very possible there may be some issues with the exchanges out there atm. Started getting some random lag spikes and short R0's today, so ran a trace. Looks like something going on over there with asianetcom.net, or at least the connection to their segments. Everything was good getting thorugh to pacnet, but once it hit asianetcom, latency went through the roof...more so than usual. I'm talking some hits were over 300ms a hop, not the usual 150-200ms. So yeah...something out there in between is getting funky.

Here's something you guys might want to try, it may help your ISP's research what is going on. Contact them about your issues and ask them to run a tracert from your modem to this IP:

124.150.154.84

Ordinarily, I'd give a quick how-to for how to run the tracert yourself so you could actually see what is going on, but utlimately you would just be forwarding your findings to your ISP to research it. Any ISP worth their salt should be able to do this while terminaled in to your modems....might as well make them earn that monthly fee.