From August 2nd to the 6th I could play almost 10 games a night without dropping once. And even in the weeks before that...with few to no drops.

The last 2 nights Aug 7-8th, I can't stay in a game for more than 3 minutes without getting dropped out of the game.

After checking port forwarding and pings ...I checked the tracert - there seems to be rather bad hop of/at number 3 -  932 ms   662 ms   359 ms  122-61-24-1.jetstream.xtra.co.nz [122.61.24.1]. Sometimes it doesn't even get a ping - 3     *        *        *     Request timed.
out.

The next tracert a few minutes later could be as low as 128ms for hop3. Yet the next tracert I do...it will be 900ms or timeout all together.

Tracing route to google-public-dns-a.google.com [8.8.8.8]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    69 ms    99 ms    99 ms  dsldevice.lan [192.168.1.254]
  2    52 ms    52 ms    52 ms  122-61-24-4.jetstream.xtra.co.nz [122.61.24.4]
  3   932 ms   662 ms   359 ms  122-61-24-1.jetstream.xtra.co.nz [122.61.24.1]
  4    52 ms    54 ms    53 ms  mdr-fid-int.akbr5.global-gateway.net.nz [202.37.
244.222]
  5    51 ms    55 ms    52 ms  ae4-10.akbr5.global-gateway.net.nz [202.37.244.2
21]
  6    52 ms    51 ms    52 ms  ae1-2.akbr4.global-gateway.net.nz [202.50.232.77
]
  7    76 ms    76 ms    77 ms  xe6-0-0.sgbr1.global-gateway.net.nz [202.50.232.
10]
  8    76 ms    82 ms    77 ms  xe2-0-0-2.sgbr2.global-gateway.net.nz [202.50.23
2.246]
  9    76 ms    77 ms    76 ms  202.50.236.110
 10    87 ms    77 ms    85 ms  66.249.95.224
 11    77 ms    77 ms    77 ms  66.249.95.233
 12    77 ms    77 ms    77 ms  72.14.237.21
 13    77 ms    76 ms    75 ms  google-public-dns-a.google.com [8.8.8.8]

 

Unfortunately I am not very well versed in this area of internet connection and perhaps there is nothing wrong or broken at hop 3.

 

If this does indeed turn out to be a bad or broken or router that's overloaded.

Hoping Telecom can sort this out.