I have been having random huge lag spikes to WoW for quite awhile. Whenever I traceroute to their server, there are one or two IP addresses that have a huge ms. Its not always the same IP either.

Traceroute to blizzard

C:\Users\XXXXX>tracert us.logon.battle.net

Tracing route to us.logon.battle.net [12.129.206.130]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 4 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 9 ms 5 ms 7 ms ip68-103-244-1.ks.ok.cox.net [XXXXXXXXX]
3 * * 2401 ms 70.183.70.89
4 6 ms 7 ms 12 ms ip70-183-65-21.ks.ks.cox.net [70.183.65.21]
5 8 ms 15 ms 36 ms 70.183.71.61
6 26 ms 38 ms 26 ms dalsbbrj02-ae2.0.r2.dl.cox.net [68.1.1.243]
7 45 ms 44 ms 44 ms ae-2-70.edge2.Dallas3.Level3.net [4.69.145.76]
8 33 ms 27 ms 36 ms 192.205.35.141
9 168 ms * 74 ms cr2.dlstx.ip.att.net [12.122.138.18]
10 * * * Request timed out.
11 * 71 ms 65 ms cr84.la2ca.ip.att.net [12.123.30.249]
12 73 ms 80 ms 71 ms gar5.la2ca.ip.att.net [12.122.129.25]
13 92 ms 72 ms 73 ms 12.122.255.74
14 132 ms 73 ms 73 ms 12.129.193.242
15 * * * Request timed out.
16 * * * Request timed out.
17 * * * Request timed out.
Etc-

Trace complete.


Edit1----

Its always a different hop though.

I just pinged that IP I got the 2401ms from.

Pinging 70.183.70.89 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 70.183.70.89: bytes=32 time=23ms TTL=62
Reply from 70.183.70.89: bytes=32 time=17ms TTL=62
Reply from 70.183.70.89: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=62
Reply from 70.183.70.89: bytes=32 time=12ms TTL=62

Ping statistics for 70.183.70.89:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 10ms, Maximum = 23ms, Average = 15ms



Edit2----

Here are some continous pings to a few of the first IP addresses

Ping statistics for 70.183.70.89:
Packets: Sent = 156, Received = 148, Lost = 8 (5% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 4ms, Maximum = 3055ms, Average = 57ms


Ping statistics for 70.183.65.21:
Packets: Sent = 149, Received = 143, Lost = 6 (4% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 6ms, Maximum = 3055ms, Average = 62ms


Ping statistics for 70.183.71.61:
Packets: Sent = 132, Received = 125, Lost = 7 (5% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 6ms, Maximum = 3056ms, Average = 72ms


Ping statistics for 68.1.1.243:
Packets: Sent = 142, Received = 136, Lost = 6 (4% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 18ms, Maximum = 3608ms, Average = 117ms



I've recently had my signal checked. They said it was great.

Friend lives 5 miles away and has no issues.. Id assume hes on the same CMTS..