Unbearable lag spikes / High ping

Question

Hi there,
After a long time of not playing online games, I've recently picked up the mouse and keyboard to play CS:GO - I've been a CS fan since the heady days of 1.6.
However, the performance of my internet also seems to have an air of nostalgia about it, with the ping hovering at a pretty difficult-to-enjoy 75ms on every server, with regular (I'd say every 2 minutes?) spikes up to 250ms which lasts a couple of seconds and brings with it one horrendously jolty CS player.
I have searched through this forum quite a bit but there seem to have been many ways to address it, some of which I've tried with zero success (altering wireless channel settings, port forwarding etc.) and others I haven't tried.  Could someone tell me where to start?  I've seen mention of "tracert.com" and other things but I don't really know how to interpret the results.  Anyway, here's a recent run.  Clearly there's a large jump between hops 4 and 5 but I have no idea whether this is something that can be addressed:
 1?: [LOCALHOST]                                         pmtu 1500
1:  router1-nac.linode.com                                0.606ms
1:  router1-nac.linode.com                                0.587ms
2:  207.99.53.41                                          0.682ms
3:  0.e1-1.tbr1.tl9.nac.net                               1.432ms
4:  0.e2-1.pr2.tl9.nac.net                                1.396ms
5:  linx1.ukcore.bt.net                                  71.898ms
6:  194.72.31.128                                        73.844ms
7:  acc2-10GigE-0-7-1-0.sf.21cn-ipp.bt.net               81.007ms asymm  8
8:  109.159.251.240                                      76.432ms
9:  217.41.169.108                                       78.847ms
10:  217.41.169.10                                        78.427ms
11:  213.120.181.181                                      82.940ms
If there is any further information which I should provide in order to try to get some assistance, please let me know and I'll seek it out (if you can tell me how to).
Thanks,
Dom

Answer 1

Sorry to hear about your troubles. I wish my ping was as good as yours...
Tracing route to bbc.co.uk [212.58.246.103]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 1 ms 1 ms <1 ms BTHomeHub.home [192.168.1.254]
2 516 ms 694 ms 728 ms 217.47.106.122
3 636 ms 803 ms 815 ms 217.47.106.193
4 377 ms 406 ms 468 ms 213.1.69.78
5 526 ms 400 ms 246 ms 31.55.165.102
6 195 ms 197 ms 171 ms 31.55.165.75
7 122 ms 124 ms 181 ms 31.55.165.107
8 371 ms 483 ms 545 ms 109.159.250.52
9 93 ms 82 ms 68 ms core1-te0-13-0-17.ealing.ukcore.bt.net [109.159.250.42]
10 237 ms 219 ms 268 ms peer2-xe0-0-0.telehouse.ukcore.bt.net [109.159.254.102]
11 362 ms 385 ms 343 ms 194.74.65.42
12 * * * Request timed out.
13 53 ms 60 ms 81 ms ae0.er01.cwwtf.bbc.co.uk [132.185.254.93]
14 132 ms 223 ms 309 ms 132.185.255.165
15 355 ms 247 ms 154 ms fmt-vip132.cwwtf.bbc.co.uk [212.58.246.103]
Trace complete.
Been like this for weeks.... BT says its normal.