What's causing FiOS users to get so much lag since 2.1?

[remidi]

It's not Verizon, it's a company called Level3 (www.level3.net). Specifically, they have a router in Montreal called ae-11-11.car2.Montreal2.Level3.net [4.69.141.1] that seems to be having issues. I know a lot of Sprint customers are ending up on their route, as well as a lot of East Coast Verizon customers. It's possible your ISP could adjust the route, but somewhat unlikely you'd get them to do it.

Last time I did a traceroute that hop was the issue...hmmm. So what can we do?

**I just did a google search and there is a level3 telecommunications company that has offices in my city. Buffalo, NY.
*** I just did a traceroute to 184.107.107.176. I am not going through level3 anymore and my pings are fine. I'll go in game and see if I have any lag. Maybe they change our routes later in the day?