Well OK, lets assume you are right and there is an issue with the trafic somewhere along the tracert. What can be done about this? All else being equal, I have never had any lag in LOTRO, SWTOR, GW2, AION, Secret World, or Wow. I am fairly certain these companies have their NA servers located in various places around the US. So does that indicate it is an issue with the location SE has chosen? With their backbone provider? If so, it is VERY unlikely that this issue will ever go away since moving/changing either of those would be very costly.