Requesting tech assistance for new issue

So after a long time of suffering through a slow (but stable) ISP, I upgraded to Verizon where I'm getting about 6 Mbps donload speed. My ping is about 125-225 which is good enough.

Since switching though, I've been getting lag spikes about every 5-10 minutes that last at least 15 seconds. Sometimes they lead to Code=007s, sometimes it recovers. During these times I quickly switch to my browser or whatever to see if the connection works, and I can load web pages during the lag spikes. But I think the pages load a bit slowly during those times... Basically, it's difficult to tell if the spikes are just with GW or with the internet connection as a whole, but I'm leaning towards whole.

Does anyone have any experience with this sort of thing? Is it something to call Verizon about or something I can address on my computer?

Thanks in advance! I really need help!

I had something roughly like that. I have Verizon too, and I would get pretty bad lag spikes, at least once a day, typically. Also, I was basically incapable of running GW and internet (ie for GWW or Guru) at the same time without something like a 50K ping.
However, about a month or two ago, I think, I got another gig of RAM. This helped ALOT. I now don't even lag at all with both the internet and GW on at the same time. Can even throw iTunes into the mix, along with em. And, I haven't had a ping above 600 since the RAM was installed. This might not work on your computer, it could depend on your processor. How much processing power do you have? I have 2.8 GHz, and upgraded from 512 mb RAM to 1.5 gig RAM

We need to know full system specs (the more detail the better) to be able to diagnose anything like this for you..............

Thanks! Here goes:

Dell XPS 1730 Laptop
Core 2 Extreme Processor @ 3Ghz
4 GB RAM
GeForce 8800 GTX w/SLI (with SLI turned off for GW)
Vista 32-bit Home Premium

Thanks in advance again!

RAM and hardware specs are definitely nonissues for you. what you are experiencing is simply bad routing on verizon's part. unfortunately, this is also a problem none of us can help you with. you'll have to take it up with verizon yourself.

That's what I was thinking. I'm just hoping it's not a router issue... I loathe router issues. Thanks.

That's a coincidence - we hate router issues too!