BT is either appalling for gaming, or their router...

I am a uni student, studying computer science with games development. Whenever I come back home for the summer I practically pull my hair out over the appaling quality of service I get from BT. It's beyond my control to change the ISP (as I spend the summer at my parents' house), and although I can afford satellite broadband, I'd rather not fork out if I can help it.
Anyway, the root of the issue is this; in any online game, there is constant periodic 'skips' (lag), potentially caused by data packets being lost, but I can't say for certain. It's so appalling, that I've tried as much as I can to rectify the problem, which was to:
Replace every component between the router, telephone lines, and wall. Still no better.
Reset the router, to factory settings, tried every possible option in the homehub menu, and reset it again
Considered it could be wireless, so moved my desktop miles away from my desk and tested it in a wired connection, but no change
Turn off every other device capabale of so much as thinking about connecting to the internet in the house, and stopped every running program on my remaining computer except for the games I was testing
Moved the router to as many locations as I could
Tried it both with my laptop and my desktop, which are two different brands with different hardware, but give the same problem
Now, all this testing means that it can only be either BT's line strength or something wrong with the router (home hub, software ver. 4.7.5.1.83 (Type B)), which is a poor excuse for a router anyway with no QoS, MAC filtering, or anything more advanced than a caveman with a club.
Specifically, the problems I'm getting are:
Very poor bandwidth for download/upload, but my parents live in a 2MB max area, so I can live with this
More importantly, the periodic lags (actually timed them to once a minute, more or less) in games, and that's all games. It seems like packetloss, but I don't want to say for certain. Please don't mention wireless interference, because like I said I tried it on a wired connection, and there was no difference. It's so predictably periodic that I can set up a timer on my desktop and have it beep at the exact moment the lag happens; so I know this is not just random inteference.
It's my parents' connection, so there's a limit to what I can do, but I can give a phone number in private, and any help with router setup or other solutions is greatly appreciated; I'm very frustrated.
Thank you

Do a pathping in cmd prompt to the server ip. I'm pretty sure you'll find the same as me.  Major packetloss in the BT network.  eg. I use "pathping 213.248.127.130 > c:\pltest.txt" (without the ") to see what's going on in cmd prompt and it saves the file to my c drive and yes it's to all games and to anywhere on the net.
Unfortunately changing the MTU doesn't help for me at all.  I can't view BTvision when it's happening as it stops and starts and crashes the BTVision box and gaming is a nightmare.  Also I find anything I download gets easily corrupted.  The good thing is, the more and more people who start noticing it, as I have for the last couple of months, perhaps it will be fixed faster.

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    Message was edited by: Patrick Bagdasarian

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