Checked the tracerts to lowerping and to us.logon.worldofwarcraft.com,

Seems its weird routing from Streamyx at the moment. A few of the routers are getting higher than usual ping and to lowerping, there are some dropped packets. There isn't much you can do I think, wait till Streamyx finishes whatever it is they are doing atm.

Not sure if its normal for you, but since around august, the gateway hop (2nd hop for me) almost always times out. It seems like the server/router itself is trying to disallow PING, the only weird thing is, it works on tracert, but not the normal 'ping' functions -- so almost all my tracerts to anywhere have a lot of dropped packets on the 2nd hop, but I've just stopped caring at this point.