[Matt]

Sure, what IP do you want me to do?  I also noticed that as more people are alive in the server, my ping seems to climb unusually higher.  As people die, the ping starts to come down a bit.

Makes sense, as more people die there's less data being sent to you. Tracerts when the problem is actually happening are better, but that one is good to reference it too. Really looks like a congestion problem at Qwest.