Ping shoots up every hour

Hi Guys,
I really only notice this whilst playing games (I use a Logitech Gamepad, which monitors my ping) but I have noticed that at 5 to the hour, every hour, without exception, for approximately 1-2 minutes my ping will shoot up from between 20-50 to 300-1000. I know it's only for a couple of minutes but it can be a real pain when you amass a good score and then you get kicked from a game for too high a ping.
This has been going on for some 3-4 months now (I thought it was just temporary glitch) and tbh I don't really know what to do. It's certainly not the server of the game as I play various games and servers and it happens on any of them, and my mates don't seem to suffer with this anomilly.
Any help/guidance is greatly appreciated.
Running Homehub3
Thanks
Martin

At the moment I am hammering Battlefield Bad Company 2. I play with a couple of mates and it is only me suffering this problem. They have game pads to check their pings and they're saying they're not having this problem at all.
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