Router issue

[dell]

This happened about a few days ago, not sure but a few people have been having a high ping issue from east coast places. I normally ping 45-55, now its about 80-95 with some packet loss.
This is reguarding to the RA2 server. Hope someone has noticed this or said something to the admins.

Here's my tracert

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

E:\Users\Administrator>tracert tastyspleen.net

Tracing route to tastyspleen.net [74.54.186.226]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  192.168.1.1
  2     7 ms     6 ms     8 ms  10.1.8.1
  3     6 ms     7 ms     8 ms  cransysc01-gex0102000.ri.ri.cox.net [68.9.8.101]

  4     7 ms     8 ms     7 ms  ip68-9-7-237.ri.ri.cox.net [68.9.7.237]
  5     7 ms     8 ms    29 ms  provdsrj02-ge600.0.rd.ri.cox.net [68.9.14.109]
  6    51 ms    84 ms    53 ms  dalsbbrj02-ae2.0.r2.dl.cox.net [68.1.1.243]
  7   256 ms   216 ms   203 ms  te7-1.dsr01.dllstx3.theplanet.com [70.87.253.2]

  8    84 ms    52 ms    52 ms  te1-4.dsr01.dllstx2.theplanet.com [70.87.253.114
]
  9   152 ms   243 ms   244 ms  po1.car06.dllstx6.theplanet.com [12.96.160.8]
 10    84 ms    85 ms   119 ms  tastyspleen.net [74.54.186.226]

Trace complete.

theplanet.com seems to be the main issue.