I'm stuck in the country with nothing but dial-up and my crappy satellite connection. For games I have to use dial-up.

For the last few days my connection is just horrid. Can someone explain to me from this graph what the problem is? The ISP says it isn't them it's the phone lines. The phone company says everything is fine. I am just sick to death of all the excuses.



I've ran about 10 different graphs and they start out fine then suddenly my ping jumps up to 1000-4000ms and then back down to 190-250ms then back up then back down. From the first hop I have tons of packet loss. I'm not a guru of networking so I really don't know what this all means.