High ping in TF2

Before we start, TF2 is Team Fortress 2 for anyone who doesn't know.

Anyway, as of the last month or a little longer, my ping has gone from being perfectly normal, to increasing by x3 or x4. What happens is my ping will be just fine, then it will randomly spike up.

To Chicago, I ping around 18-30. To Dallas, 40-60. And now with this problem, my ping will go from one of those, to pinging around 110 to Chicago, and 150-170 to Dallas. I don't know what could have caused this, and I'm looking for help to solve this problem.

I'm not sure what kind of information you'll want to see, so I'll post it as the questions come. But I do know you'll probably want my specs, so I'll put them below.

AMD Phenom II x6
ATI HD Radeon 5770
4GB RAM
1TB HDD
Win7 Home Prem. 32bit
Verizon/Frontier DSL w/ Modem.

I play on a wired connection. Thanks ahead of time!

kby said:

Before we start, TF2 is Team Fortress 2 for anyone who doesn't know.

Anyway, as of the last month or a little longer, my ping has gone from being perfectly normal, to increasing by x3 or x4. What happens is my ping will be just fine, then it will randomly spike up.

To Chicago, I ping around 18-30. To Dallas, 40-60. And now with this problem, my ping will go from one of those, to pinging around 110 to Chicago, and 150-170 to Dallas. I don't know what could have caused this, and I'm looking for help to solve this problem.

I'm not sure what kind of information you'll want to see, so I'll post it as the questions come. But I do know you'll probably want my specs, so I'll put them below.

AMD Phenom II x6
ATI HD Radeon 5770
4GB RAM
1TB HDD
Win7 Home Prem. 32bit
Verizon/Frontier DSL w/ Modem.

I play on a wired connection. Thanks ahead of time!

Could be a corrupt driver, an ISP issue, or both. try checking the latency with latency checker. DPC Latency Checker

zigzag3143 said:

Could be a corrupt driver, an ISP issue, or both. try checking the latency with latency checker. DPC Latency Checker

I don't know what I should be looking for with the DPC Latency Checker.

I downloaded and opened it, and this is what I am getting - https://i.imgur.com/z2Fn8.jpg

SlasherIT said:

Did you update your graphics drivers lately?

Slasher

Not that I know of. Would me not doing so be a cause of this?

Graphics card as in ATI HD Radeon 5770? If so, then that.

I thought I did in the original post. What else do you need to know?

https://i.imgur.com/d47wN.jpg Here's a picture of the server browser. Well, some or most of it. It's driving me insane :L