Name of your Internet Service Provider (ISP): Comcast
Ticket or reference number from your ISP: None.
State/Country: WA, USA
Date/Time: Occurring periodically since switching ISPs three months ago.
Symptoms: Constant, severe, unplayable spikes during expected Peak Times of Internet Traffic and player traffic to Canada. (6:00 P.M. PDT - 10:30 P.M. PDT typically)
Frequency: Weekday evenings. Severity varies. First time in a few weeks I've noticed really bad lag issues.
Content: All
Which in-game World were you playing on when the issue occurred? Adamantoise
Traceroute records: Run at approx. 10:00 P.M. PDT when issue appeared to be at its worst for me during this evening.
Code:
tracert 199.91.189.30
Tracing route to 199.91.189.30 over a maximum of 30 hops
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.2.1 (My Network)
2 * * * Request timed out. (My Network)
3 11 ms 8 ms 9 ms te-0-1-0-8-sur02.everett.wa.seattle.comcast.net [68.85.241.77] (Comcast)
4 12 ms 15 ms 14 ms be-29-ar01.burien.wa.seattle.comcast.net [69.139.164.213] (Comcast)
5 25 ms 12 ms 12 ms 4.68.71.77 (Level3)
6 91 ms 94 ms 85 ms ae-10-10.car2.Montreal2.Level3.net [4.69.153.86] (Level3)
7 82 ms 85 ms 91 ms ORMUCO-COMM.car2.Montreal2.Level3.net [4.59.178.74] (Ormuco)
8 95 ms 95 ms * 10.2.0.1 (Local Address so can't ping / Packet Loss past this point)
9 * 95 ms * 192.34.76.2 (Ormuco)
10 94 ms 95 ms * 199.91.189.234 (Ormuco / SE)
11 96 ms 99 ms 106 ms 199.91.189.30 (Ormuco / SE / Adamantoise!)
Trace complete.
It always seems like it's with Ormuco. (Also, it's funny that the SE IP address is still registered under EIDOS).