Voladis

Joined a couple weeks ago. I had some lags but nothing like recently. What happens is, generally I can log on. Generally I get green pings in the beginning. Turns yellow, then red within about five minutes, then huge lags (e.g. up to 6000+ ms) and disconnects. I did a tracert: Tracing route to logon.elysium-project.org [164.132.233.125] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.1.1 2 26 ms 25 ms 27 ms MY IP REDACTED 3 250 ms 249 ms 56 ms P0-1-3-1.PHLAPA-LCR-21.verizon-gni.net [130.81.136.140] 4 * * * Request timed out. 5 * * * Request timed out. 6 32 ms 32 ms 33 ms 0.ae3.GW11.IAD8.ALTER.NET [140.222.233.47] 7 37 ms 36 ms 36 ms teliasonera-gw.customer.alter.net [204.148.11.138] 8 33 ms 35 ms 33 ms ash-bb3-link.telia.net [80.91.248.156] 9 47 ms 48 ms 50 ms nyk-bb3-link.telia.net [62.115.141.245] 10 109 ms 113 ms 107 ms nyk-b2-link.telia.net [213.155.130.28] 11 89 ms 113 ms 113 ms be100-154.nwk-5-a9.nj.us [192.99.146.38] 12 79 ms 56 ms 58 ms 192.99.146.138 13 125 ms 115 ms 143 ms po7.bhs-vac1-a75.qc.ca [192.99.146.147] 14 * * * Request timed out. 15 * * * Request timed out. 16 * * * Request timed out. 17 * * * Request timed out. 18 * * * Request timed out. 19 * * * Request timed out. 20 * * * Request timed out. 21 * * * Request timed out. 22 * * * Request timed out. 23 * * * Request timed out. 24 * * * Request timed out. 25 * * * Request timed out. 26 * * * Request timed out. 27 * * * Request timed out. 28 * * * Request timed out. 29 * * * Request timed out. 30 * * * Request timed out. Trace complete. The 13th hop originates in Canada and is supposed to go to France. Thinking it might be my DNS settings, or a DNS cache issue on my hardware, I did a tracert using a web application based in Europe: ( http://ping.eu/traceroute/ ) It also never completed. It said: No reply for 5 hops. Assuming we reached firewall. Because I can play, somewhat, for a while, and it becomes progressively worse, I am guessing the packets for the game are taking mulitple routes, and some of them are encountering a firewall. But not sure. I know just enough networking to be dangerous :) Many thanks in advance, - Voladis