Normal fot ping to double then half ?

[Ballistic]

So I continue to have problems with Windows 7.. I want to believe it is the better platform but over and over again I notice things or slow downs, it also doesn't seem to be as good at multi-tasking.. but todays issue is that I have finally decided to play some games on it and during game play I kept having little issues but they became annoying so I decided to do a speedtest and everything came back fine except my ping seems high.. It's at 107 then 5 minutes later it went to 54, another check and 45 but then five minutes later it was back to 103 and 2 minutes later at 54 again... I have also seen it at 23 in the time since moving to Windows 7.. Is it normal for pings to jump around so much? Being half then doubling in a few minutes time ?

 

[logicearth]

What security software are you running? Does the issue continue if you remove it/them?

 

[Ballistic]

First test taken 2 minutes before the second.. In Houston and it suggest I test from here to the Austin location so that's what I have been going with

 

[Ballistic]

What security software are you running? Does the issue continue if you remove it/them?

Norton 2010 and Malwarebytes are the only active modules associated with security along with Windows firewall.. I'll try to disable both active modules and see if the problem persist