Banger,
Hope your keeping well.
I have noticed a difference over the last 10 days also. Pings are back down to 14ms which is great, but gaming is a total mess. I ran Trace cert that shows a problem with Daisy (te0-1-0-0.cr02.ts1.bb.daisyplc.net [62.72.137.122]) seems to be the problem.
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.254
2 14 ms 13 ms 13 ms lo0.ar85.tn5.bb.daisyplc.net [62.72.136.43]
3 14 ms 14 ms 14 ms 62.72.137.197
4 14 ms 14 ms 14 ms 62.72.137.197
5 14 ms 14 ms 55 ms te0-1-0-0.cr02.ts1.bb.daisyplc.net [62.72.137.122]
6 14 ms 15 ms 13 ms pipex-te4-3-503.thdo.bbc.co.uk [62.72.139.66]
7 * * * Request timed out.
8 16 ms 15 ms 15 ms ae0.er01.cwwtf.bbc.co.uk [132.185.254.93]
9 15 ms 15 ms 15 ms 132.185.255.156
10 16 ms 15 ms 15 ms www-vip.cwwtf.bbc.co.uk [212.58.253.67]
Trace complete.
I have found this post by TiMeTraVeLeR on thinkbroadband who is also having a problems.
http://forums.thinkbroadband.com/otherisp/f/4274724-...
Have you seen this problem when completing a tracert?