This is at 10:31pm CST

Code:
Tracing route to 204.2.229.10 over a maximum of 30 hops

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  RT-AC68U-5570 [192.168.1.1]
  2    10 ms    10 ms    10 ms  96.120.28.53
  3    11 ms     9 ms    16 ms  te-0-7-0-8-sur03.chicago301.il.chicago.comcast.net [68.85.180.45]
  4     9 ms     8 ms     9 ms  68.85.183.142
  5    11 ms    12 ms    10 ms  be-144-ar01.area4.il.chicago.comcast.net [162.151.45.69]
  6    12 ms    12 ms    12 ms  be-33491-cr02.350ecermak.il.ibone.comcast.net [68.86.91.165]
  7    10 ms    10 ms    10 ms  be-10577-pe03.350ecermak.il.ibone.comcast.net [68.86.86.2]
  8    11 ms    11 ms     9 ms  ae-26.a02.chcgil09.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.66.65]
  9    68 ms    76 ms    78 ms  ae-4.r08.chcgil09.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.4.157]
 10    11 ms    14 ms    11 ms  ae-0.r21.chcgil09.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.2.205]
 11   175 ms    67 ms   176 ms  ae-5.r22.snjsca04.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.5.17]
 12   164 ms   161 ms   167 ms  ae-40.r02.snjsca04.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.3.121]
 13   181 ms   185 ms   180 ms  ae-3.r00.scrmca02.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.7.11]
 14   180 ms   186 ms   192 ms  xe-0-1-0-1-1.r00.scrmca02.us.ce.gin.ntt.net [129.250.195.46]
 15   165 ms   108 ms    78 ms  204.2.229.234
 16    67 ms    68 ms    65 ms  204.2.229.10

Trace complete.
Any time after about 6pm CST looks like this. And this'll go past midnight (checked it last night). In what universe is this acceptable performance?