Intesting, thanks.

That certainly explains what I'm seeing.

I've effectively done the same thing by slowing my ping interval. (The return echos come back in the 9-15 ms range so I don't have any "outstanding" pings before the next one is sent 50ms later.

Question: If I "remove" my router from the equation completely, and connect directly to my cable modem, wouldn't that mean that the 1st ISP router is the one having the problem as pings to it come back "good" while it's the ones to "later hops" which seem to get "lost"