pings are everywhere...

[#1]

i have interleaving off and was getting a rock solid 26ms to bbc.co.uk...now i'm getting this:
64 bytes from 212.58.224.138: icmp_seq=18 ttl=122 time=133.043 ms
64 bytes from 212.58.224.138: icmp_seq=19 ttl=122 time=58.380 ms
64 bytes from 212.58.224.138: icmp_seq=20 ttl=122 time=284.900 ms
64 bytes from 212.58.224.138: icmp_seq=21 ttl=122 time=32.768 ms
64 bytes from 212.58.224.138: icmp_seq=22 ttl=122 time=60.041 ms
64 bytes from 212.58.224.138: icmp_seq=23 ttl=122 time=58.944 ms
64 bytes from 212.58.224.138: icmp_seq=24 ttl=122 time=41.010 ms
anyone know what's going on?  i switched to plusnet for stability and gaming, not happy this is happening

[#2]

Hi, can you do a tracert please (traceroute if you're not on Windows(R))?
My pings have been shot today, my tracert shows I'm connected to thn-ag1 gateway:
C:\Users\Alastair>tracert bbc.co.uk
Tracing route to bbc.co.uk [212.58.224.138]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
  1    3 ms    2 ms    2 ms  192.168.1.254
  2    4 ms    35 ms  311 ms  lo0.plusnet.thn-ag1.plus.net [195.166.128.101]
  3    30 ms    49 ms    18 ms  vl703.thn-gw2.plus.net [84.92.4.242]
  4    35 ms    63 ms    20 ms  rt0.thdo.bbc.co.uk [212.58.239.25]
  5    33 ms  154 ms    47 ms  212.58.238.133
  6  149 ms    19 ms    58 ms  virtual-vip.thdo.bbc.co.uk [212.58.224.138]
Trace complete.
My pings are graphed here: http://www.thinkbroadband.com/ping/share/1c4dc8f62914b8894d0f1b560e14e493-04-02-2010.html
On a good day I get mostly around 15!
-  Alastair.

[#3]

Just reconnected to thn-ag2, pings much more reasonable (these ones direct from the router):
Pinging [212.58.224.138] 30 times with: 64 bytes of data
ping successful: icmp_seq=0 time=43 ms
ping successful: icmp_seq=1 time=16 ms
ping successful: icmp_seq=2 time=27 ms
ping successful: icmp_seq=3 time=39 ms
ping successful: icmp_seq=4 time=50 ms
ping successful: icmp_seq=5 time=33 ms
ping successful: icmp_seq=6 time=16 ms
ping successful: icmp_seq=7 time=17 ms
ping successful: icmp_seq=8 time=25 ms
ping successful: icmp_seq=9 time=17 ms
ping successful: icmp_seq=10 time=16 ms
ping successful: icmp_seq=11 time=17 ms
ping successful: icmp_seq=12 time=20 ms
ping successful: icmp_seq=13 time=12 ms
ping successful: icmp_seq=14 time=39 ms
ping successful: icmp_seq=15 time=23 ms
ping successful: icmp_seq=16 time=15 ms
ping successful: icmp_seq=17 time=16 ms
ping successful: icmp_seq=18 time=18 ms
ping successful: icmp_seq=19 time=48 ms
ping successful: icmp_seq=20 time=25 ms
ping successful: icmp_seq=21 time=17 ms
ping successful: icmp_seq=22 time=22 ms
ping successful: icmp_seq=23 time=51 ms
ping successful: icmp_seq=24 time=16 ms
ping successful: icmp_seq=25 time=20 ms
ping successful: icmp_seq=26 time=18 ms
ping successful: icmp_seq=27 time=15 ms
ping successful: icmp_seq=28 time=15 ms
ping successful: icmp_seq=29 time=23 ms

[#4]

This'll do for me:
Pinging bbc.co.uk [212.58.224.138] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 212.58.224.138: bytes=32 time=31ms TTL=122
Reply from 212.58.224.138: bytes=32 time=16ms TTL=122
Reply from 212.58.224.138: bytes=32 time=15ms TTL=122
Reply from 212.58.224.138: bytes=32 time=18ms TTL=122
Reply from 212.58.224.138: bytes=32 time=16ms TTL=122
Reply from 212.58.224.138: bytes=32 time=17ms TTL=122
Reply from 212.58.224.138: bytes=32 time=16ms TTL=122
Reply from 212.58.224.138: bytes=32 time=15ms TTL=122
Reply from 212.58.224.138: bytes=32 time=15ms TTL=122
Reply from 212.58.224.138: bytes=32 time=15ms TTL=122
Ping statistics for 212.58.224.138:
    Packets: Sent = 10, Received = 10, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 15ms, Maximum = 31ms, Average = 17ms